Trump Regime Waging Cyberwar on Iran by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) The Trump regime is waging all-out war on Iran by other means. Short of turning hot so far, the risk of going this far is ominously real. Longstanding US plans call for toppling its government. Last week, things came perilously... Continue Reading →

Russia Helping Iran Circumvent Illegal US Sanctions by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Unilaterally imposed US sanctions against other nations have no legal validity. They’re used against governments unwilling to subordinate their sovereign rights to its interests. Washington uses them as weapons of war by other means against nations on its target... Continue Reading →

How Close Was the Trump Regime to Waging War on Iran? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) From Harry Truman’s aggression on North Korea to post-9/11 preemptive US wars, US ruling authorities acted with coalition of the willing partners — in lieu of going it alone. World community opposition gives Washington pause... Continue Reading →

Trump Concerned About Loss of Lives in Iran? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Via Twitter on Friday, Trump said the Pentagon on his order was “cocked & loaded” to strike three Iranian sites in response to the downing of a US spy drone. Falsely claiming it was in international airspace, he... Continue Reading →

Media Hostility Toward Iran Sells US Belligerence by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Recklessly dangerous hostility toward Iran by US media, bipartisan hardliners in Washington, Israel, and its Lobby has things heading toward possible war on the country if efforts aren’t made to step back from the brink. Instead they’re going in... Continue Reading →

Trump Threatens to Attack Iran, Then Pulls Back by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Days after calling last week’s Gulf of Oman incident “very minor,” stepping back from possible war on Iran, Trump called its downing of a US spy drone (in its own airspace he failed to explain) “a very big... Continue Reading →

Deteriorating US/Turkey Relations by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) US/Ankara relations have been on a downward trajectory since its ruling authorities refused to let the Bush/Cheney regime use Turkey’s Incirlik airbase during its preemptive war on Iraq based on Big Lies and deception like all wars of aggression.  Things worsened after the... Continue Reading →

The NYT Calls for Congress to Address (Nonexistent) Russian US Election Meddling by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Time and again, the self-styled newspaper of record NYT proves it’s a national embarrassment, a mouthpiece for powerful interests at the expense of truth and full disclosure. It consistently features managed news misinformation and... Continue Reading →

Media Support for Washington’s Destructive Imperial Agenda by Stephen Lendman Instead of condemning endless US wars of aggression and possible new ones, establishment media support what the  Nuremberg Tribunal’s Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice at the time) called “the supreme international crime against peace.” On November 21, 1945, his opening remarks... Continue Reading →

Iran Downs Hostile US Spy Drone in Its Airspace by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said “the IRGC air force shot down an American spy drone, identified as RQ-4 Global Hawk, that had violated Iranian airspace in the Kuh Mubarak region located at... Continue Reading →