Wars and Militarism

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Hallucinations

July 1, 2025 Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. Educate! Austerity, China, Donald Trump, European Union (EU), Militarization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Russia, Wars and Militarism

By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was about money. In fact, the final communiqué was perhaps the shortest of any NATO meeting – only five points, two about money and one to thank the Netherlands for hosting the summit. The Hague Declaration was only 427 words, whereas in the previous year, the Washington Declaration was 5,400 words and ran to 44 paragraphs. This time, there was not the granular detail about this or that threat, nor the long and detailed assessments of the war in Ukraine and how NATO supports that war without limit (“Ukraine’s future is in NATO”, the alliance said in 2024, a position no longer repeated in the brief statement of 2025).

Key Nuclear Allegation That Started War On Iran Was Coaxed From Palantir

June 30, 2025 Alastair Crooke, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran, Palantir, US Empire, Wars and Militarism, Zionism

The sudden claim of Iran being very close to a bomb (that seemingly jumped out of ‘nowhere’ to leave Americans puzzling how could it happen that – in the blink of eye, we are going to war – was subsequently refuted by IAEA Chief Grossi to CNN on 17 June (but only after the abrupt attack on Iran already had taken place): “We did not have any evidence of a systematic effort [by Iran] to move to a nuclear weapon”, Grossi confirmed on CNN. This statement drew the following riposte from Iran by its Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei on 19 June: “This is too late, Mr. Grossi – you obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was instrumentalized by E3/U.S. to craft a resolution with baseless allegation of [Iranian] ‘non-compliance’; the same resolution was then utilized, as a final pretext, by a genocidal warmongering regime to wage a war of aggression on Iran and to launch an unlawful attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities.

US Policy On Sudan Hurts Civilians Rather Than Warring Factions

June 29, 2025 Zeina Mohammed and Ragad Babiker, Scheer Post. Educate! Africa, Sudan, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

As the war in Sudan enters its third year, experts, activists, and other community members say recent U.S. foreign policy is hurting, not helping, civilians. This month, the Trump administration banned Sudanese nationals, in addition to 11 other nationalities, from entering the U.S., a couple of weeks after the administration imposed sanctions on the country, claiming the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) used chemical weapons in their fight with Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Both moves, experts say, have drastically reduced resources and mobility for civilians at the center of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis more than they hinder the competing armed forces. As of this April, nearly 13 million people have been displaced, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.

What Comes Next Following The US-Israeli War On Iran?

June 29, 2025 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Iran, Israel, United States, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The fighting between Israel and Iran, sparked by an illegal and entirely unprovoked attack by Israel, has abated for the moment. After the United States did what Israeli Prime Minister hoped it would do and bombed Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, including the one at Fordow with bunker buster weapons, U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel to stop its attacks and reinforced that order when Israel sent dozens of bombers toward Iran shortly after the ceasefire was enacted, claiming a response to two Iranian missiles. The entire battle, fought on the basis of a fictional threat of Iran being close to acquiring a nuclear weapon, demonstrated how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can manipulate intelligence, politics, and ignorance in the U.S. to provoke American action.

Iran’s Army Chief Expresses ‘Serious Doubts’ Israel Will Adhere To Ceasefire

June 29, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Ceasefire, Iran, Israel, Wars and Militarism

The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, expressed on 29 June his “doubt” that Israel will adhere to the ceasefire with Iran, indicating Tehran’s preparedness to respond to any violation. The comments came during a phone call with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman. "We have serious doubts about the continuation of the ceasefire and are prepared to respond to any aggression,” Mousavi was quoted as telling the Saudi war chief. "Israel and the United States have proven their lack of commitment to any international rules and norms,” he went on to say. "We did not initiate the war, but we responded to the aggressor with all our might and are prepared to deliver a decisive response in the event of repeated attacks."

How Structural Racism Fuels America’s Endless Wars

June 29, 2025 Sharon Kyle, LA Progressive. Educate! Class Struggle, Economic draft, History, Structural Racism, US military, Wars and Militarism

From the very inception of the United States, a privileged elite has engineered laws, institutions, and cultural narratives to preserve its dominance—initially through racialized land seizures and redistribution, the brutal system of chattel slavery, and exclusionary immigration policies; later through Jim Crow segregation; and today through more insidious mechanisms like militarized borders, discriminatory policing, mass incarceration, exploitative labor practices, and the weaponization of poverty. At the core lies structural white supremacy—an evolving, interlocking system of racial and class oppression that resists democracy, adapts with time, and refuses to cede power.

The Strategic Fallout Of The Israel-Iran War

June 28, 2025 Ramzy Baroud, Consortium News. Educate! Iran, Israel, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare. Israel began the war, launching a surprise offensive on June 13, with airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, missile installations, and senior military and scientific personnel, in addition to numerous civilian targets. In response, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles and drones deep into Israeli territory, triggering air raid sirens across Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba and numerous other locations, causing unprecedented destruction in the country. What began as a bilateral escalation quickly spiraled into something far more consequential: a direct confrontation between the United States and Iran.

Protest Ramstein Air Base: ‘Young And Old Will Suffer The Consequences’

June 28, 2025 Gitta Düperthal, Jungewelt.de. Resist! Germany, Military Base, Peace Movement, Wars and Militarism

With the slogan "Stop Ramstein Air Base," the anti-war movement will protest against the US's war-making this Saturday. What is the reason for this rally against the military base near Kaiserslautern? As the largest US air base in Europe, Ramstein is a symbol of the use of European military bases for attacks around the world. The military base is allegedly being used to transfer weapons to Israel and also to fuel the Iran war with US bombs. Ramstein serves as a logistical hub for many of the bloody US wars. The air base is relevant to the US war machine. It is important that the German public stands up against this – and does not accept that the US continues to act as it has done so far.

Argentina Surrenders Latin America’s Southernmost Land To The US

June 28, 2025 Telma Luzzani, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Argentina, colonization, Donald Trump, NATO, US Imperialism, US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Wars and Militarism

Although it seems like years, it has been only five months since President Donald Trump took office in the White House for the second time. His goal—effectively condensed in the slogan MAGA (Make America Great Again)—is to do whatever needs to be done to regain the lost primacy. It contemplates an unconventional socio-economic-political revolution whose scope involves us. For many reasons, Argentina and, above all, our South, are in the Trumpist “restoration” plan. He said it clearly on January 20, 2025, when he took office in the White House: “An exciting new era of national success is beginning… From this moment on, the decline of the US is over”.

NATO’s Obscene Five Percent Pledge

June 27, 2025 Medea Benjamin, Consortium News. Educate! military spending, NATO, Russia, Wars and Militarism

At this week’s NATO summit in The Hague, leaders announced an alarming new goal: push military spending to 5 percent of nations’ GDP by 2035. Framed as a response to rising global threats, particularly from Russia and terrorism, the declaration was hailed as a historic step. But in truth, it represents a major step backwards — away from addressing the urgent needs of people and the planet, and toward an arms race that will impoverish societies while enriching weapons contractors. This outrageous 5 percent spending target didn’t come out of nowhere — it’s the direct result of years of bullying by U.S. President Donald Trump.

You Can’t Bomb Iran Into Zionism

June 25, 2025 Craig Murray, Consortium News. Strategize! Iran, Israel, Wars and Militarism, Zionism

Israel and the USA have each attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations. Iran must not fall for it a third time. Negotiation is dead. Israel attacked Iran during negotiations between Iran and the U.S., with the next scheduled meeting just three days away. Trump then gave Iran a two-week ultimatum to agree a peace deal. Iran held one foreign-minister-level meeting with the U.K., Germany and France and scheduled a second meeting. Trump then attacked Iran with 11 days of the ultimatum still to run. Plainly the Zionist West not only has zero interest in peace, it is engaging in morally abhorrent levels of dishonesty and deception, attacking under a false flag of truce. The idea that Iran should now return to “negotiation” with such appallingly deceitful interlocutors is risible.

What The Hell Just Happened In The Middle East You May Ask?

June 25, 2025 Moon Of Alabama. Educate! IAEA, Iran, Israel, Wars and Militarism, West Asia

The US/Israel realized: that their regime change plans were not coming to fruition, that the Iranian govt had more support and stronger foundations than they had believed, that Israeli air defense was collapsing/exhausted and that an attrition war of long range strike was going to go badly for Israel. And Trump began to get freaked out over the rising price of oil with the Iranian threat of closing the strait of Hormuz. So they wrapped it up, declared victory, and demanded a ceasefire. Iran agreed because they too have been badly shaken through Israeli covert warfare and their own air defense all but collapsed.

Initial US Intelligence Assessment: US Didn’t Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Sites

June 25, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! CNN, Donald Trump, FBI, Iran, Media, Nuclear Program, Report, Wars and Militarism

CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial US intelligence assessment has found that the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites didn’t destroy the core components of the sites and likely set back the nuclear program by only a few months. The assessment was prepared by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was based on a battle damage assessment from US Central Command, and it could change as the US gathers more intelligence. “So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” a source told CNN. The report also said that the US strikes didn’t destroy Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, and the centrifuges were largely “intact.”

The Ceasefire With Iran Reveals The Limits Of Israel’s Power

June 24, 2025 Abdaljawad Omar, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Iran, Israel, Military Aid, United States, Wars and Militarism

Much of the current crop of commentary on Israel’s war of aggression on Iran has adopted the familiar tone of breathless admiration: praise for its targeting precision, the elegance of its intelligence-gathering, the almost clinical efficiency with which it eliminates not only combatants but scientists, technicians, and — under the now-naturalized euphemism — “sites and infrastructure.” Israel’s opening salvo in the war was, by most conventional metrics, effective. The Iranians, caught off guard, scrambled to recalibrate. Though they gradually recovered some measure of initiative, their response bore the marks of persistence and attrition rather than dominance.

Atomic Agency Gave Diplomatic Cover To War On Iran

June 24, 2025 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Consortium News. Resist! History, IAEA, Iran, Israel, Israeli Imperialism, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel — an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules — to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran, despite his agency’s own conclusion that Iran had no nuclear weapons program. On June 12, based on a damning report by Grossi, a slim majority of the IAEA Board of Governors voted to find Iran in non-compliance with its obligations as an IAEA member. Of the 35 countries represented on the board, only 19 voted for the resolution, while three voted against it, 11 abstained and two did not vote.

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