US troops in Iraq. © Reuters / Thaier Al-Sudani Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of plotting false flag attacks on Americans in Iraq in a bid to frame Iran and…
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Less than a month ago, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was murdered in a storm of bullets and explosions outside Tehran. Common speculation has Israel as the assassin. A senior Israeli official, involved in the…
The “Palestinian-Israeli conflict” has often been presented as one of the most intractable in modern world history. But one reason for this is precisely that it has been wrongly analyzed as a conflict and thus…
This documentary shows the catastrophic costs and consequences of US-led regime-change at home and abroad. The video focuses on the role of the American Foreign Policy Establishment (AFPE) in waging endless wars, whose consequences the…
Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values;…
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of The University of Tehran and Investigative Journalist Gareth Porter about the recent assassination of Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran *** Published by The…
WORTH THE PRICE? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War (narrated by Danny Glover) Produced by Mark Weisbrot WORTH THE PRICE? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War is a…
Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role…
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Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a…