Monday, June 16, 2025

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #235, JUNE 16, 2025.

 OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #235, JUNE 16, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett

Diana B. Henriques.   The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism
Richardson.  Democracy Awakening.
ACLU.
What Did You Do?

 

Diana B. Henriques.   Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American CapitalismRandom House, 2023.   464. 

Publisher’s description:

WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.
With deep reporting and vivid storytelling, Diana B. Henriques takes readers back to a time when America’s financial landscape was a jungle ruled by the titans of vast wealth, largely unrestrained by government. Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression. His deeply personal campaign to tame the Street is one of the great untold dramas in American history. 

Heather Cox Richardson.  Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.  Penguin RandomHouse, 2023.  Paperback 2024 includes a new Afterword by the author.
Notes on the State of America

By Heather Cox Richardson

Praise
The Washington Post‘s “50 Best NonFiction Books of 2023”
Kirkus Review’s ”2023 Best NonFiction Books of the Year”

“[Democracy Awakening] is the most lucid just-so story for Trump’s rise I’ve ever heard. It’s magisterial.” Virginia Heffernan, Washington Post
“Necessary U.S. history … an excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150 years of American history – and how they got us to the sorry place we inhabit today.” Guardian US
“Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening is an important addition to the burgeoning literature and scholarship on what I have characterized as America’s Third Reconstruction…she is at her best simply telling us the story of how we came to be living on the brink of ending our nearly 250-year democratic experiment.”  Peniel Joseph, Democracy

 

The American Civil Liberties Union/ACLU is a bastion against fascism.  It advances equity in all aspects of our society, from anti-racism to the criminal justice system.  The ACLU employs a staff of attorneys engaged in lawsuits to protect our rights to vote and have our vote counted, to resist all barriers to voting, to learn by defending the First Amendment’s stand against censorship, and by promoting the free dissemination of ideas.   It has Affiliates in every state; the AR Affil. was established mainly by LR and Fayetteville citizens, including me.  You ask, What Can I Do against the Trump oligarchy?  Join the ACLU,  national and state.  Contact Holly Dickson, ACLU of Arkansas, 904 West 2nd Street, Little Rock, AR 72201
Here's the latest on ACLU corralling Trump and Musk.  2-21-25  --Dick
How the ACLU is responding to DOGE's invasion of privacy. 

ACLU

Dick, in just the past week, over 140,000 ACLU supporters like you have written their members of Congress to condemn DOGE's unrestricted, unaccountable violation of our privacy – here's what you need to know:  The Trump administration has granted the so-called Department of Government Efficiency unprecedented access to information about our finances, health records, and social security data – which DOGE is reportedly feeding to AI to outsource decisions about devastating funding cuts.

That's why our community is fighting back at every level: We've filed over 40 FOIA requests demanding accountability and transparency from DOGE, while pushing those in power to stop this privacy violation – and that's just the start.

Help us rein in this abuse of power and stop DOGE's overreach by emailing your representatives today.

 

What Did You Do?

I[ am reprinting the following two days after the NO KINGS demonstration June 14, 2025, all around the US, the one in Fayetteville two blocks long shoulder to shoulder.  –D]

From hieroglyphic stairway by Drew Dellinger

What Did You Do?

it’s 3:23 in the morning

and I’m awake

because my great great grandchildren

won’t let me sleep

my great great grandchildren

ask me in dreams

what did you do while the planet was plundered?

what did you do when the earth was unraveling?

surely you did something

when the seasons started failing?

as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?

did you fill the streets with protest

when democracy was stolen?

what did you do

once

you

knew?

(Reprinted from Facing the Anthropocene by Ian Angus.)

 

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #235, JUNE 16, 2025.    

Sunday, June 15, 2025

OMNI FATHER’S DAY FOR PEACE ANTHOLOGY JUNE 15, 2025

 

OMNI

FATHER’S DAY FOR PEACE ANTHOLOGY JUNE 15, 2025 (3RD SUNDAY IN JUNE).   Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology

(#1 June 19, 2008; #2 June 20, 2010; #3 June 19, 2011; #4 6-17-12); #5 June 16, 2013).  Inspired by Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day for PEACE.

 

     I published 5 newsletters on Father’s Day USA during 2008-2013, but skipped 2014 -2024 because the celebration was seldom examined by anybody, at least as far as google knew.  I finally tried again in 2025, but still the same Father’s Day full of gift suggestions, all for profit.  I next searched Father’s Day and turned up International Father’s Day, which was more of the same but wider and deeper regarding gifts (from cards to quality time).  As far as google knew, or would report, nobody offered analysis; e.g., of a fun holiday to increase sales and promote capitalism.

     A few exceptions were reported by google during this time; for examples,
Grace Paley’s poem “Fathers”;
an essay advocating the abolition of “parent day” (should be every day the same as with children);

discussions of same-sex fathers and J. C. Penney’s favorable ad.

     But the infinitely thoughtful possibilities of “Father’s Day”—the correlation between masculine father-models and war; the possible connections to Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day for Peace, for example—are unobserved, at least by google.  Not fun, of course, and don’t sell merchandise.
    Is nobody asking on Father’s Day: What are fathers doing to stop the wars, stop the warming, stop the fascism?  Stop the greatest threat to our children?

    So join with me to imagine

JULIA WARD HOWE’S PROCLAMATION FOR FATHERS

(her Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 slightly emended by Dick).

 

Arise, then, men of this day!

Arise, all men who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by nationalism and militarism. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the men of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, Let men now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as men, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace, Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God, humanity, and the earth.

In the name of manhood, of true masculinity, and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of men without limit of nationality May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient And at the earliest period consistent with its objects, To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions, The great and general interests of peace.

 

OMNI ISRAEL AND IRAN ANTHOLOGY #1 June 15, 2025

 

OMNI

ISRAEL AND IRAN ANTHOLOGY #1

June 15, 2025

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY

HTTPS://omnicenter.org/donate

What’s at Stake:  Stopping attacks by Israel, retaliations by Iran, US arming Israel, and US strengthening its naval and air forces in the Middle East.

 

CONTENTS
2024
Liebermann.  US Naval and Air Reinforcements to Middle East.
Larry Johnson.
 A Son of the New American Revolution“TED POSTOL’S ANALYSIS OF IRAN’S MISSILE ATTACK ON ISRAEL.” by Larry Johnson.
Marjorie Cohn.  Iran’s Attack Was A Legal Response To Israel’s Illegal Attack.
“Israel tries to provoke Iran.”
Robert Inlakesh,  Revealed: Israel’s Hidden History Of Attacks On Iran.”   
SCOTT RITTER.  Checkmate.”
“Iran Launches Retaliatory Strikes.”
Ben Norton. 
Iran Had Legal Right To Counter-Attack Israel…”
James North. 
Netanyahu Killed A Top Iranian General…”
Israel Airstrike 'Flattens' Iranian Consulate In Damascus.”

2023
Danny Haiphong.  “Iran-Saudi Peace Deal is Huge News.”


2022
“HOW ISRAEL EXPLOITS THE ‘IRAN THREAT’—TWO VIEWS.” 
Gareth Porter.   Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. 


2021
Philip Weiss.  Israel pushes U.S. into ‘aggressive posture toward Iran that could spiral into war’ — but mainstream press is indifferent.”
“Biden and Bennett leave progressive Americans out in the cold.”
Ted Snider.  If Israel accuses Iran of doing something, Israel is likely already doing it.” 

2020
“Iran Calls On The International Community.”
Iran claims Israel carried out killing remotely.”
“Iran leader calls for punishment.”

3 Articles from WRMEA
Google Search


2019

21 Articles about preparation for war.

 

TEXTS ISRAEL AND IRAN ANTHOLOGY #1 (covering 2019-2024, in reverse chron. order ).
(Reminder: links are provided for all omitted material; in some articles key words and phrases are highlighted in bold.)

2024

“US sending aircraft carrier, warships and fighter squadron to Middle East as region braces for Iranian retaliation By Oren Liebermann, CNN.

The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week.

It is perhaps the largest movement of US forces to the region since the early days of the Gaza war, when the Pentagon sent two carrier strike groups toward the Middle East in a very public warning to regional militant groups not to expand the fighting.

Israel says it is ready for “range of scenarios” following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Israelis have been stocking up on supplies, airlines have cancelled flights and travel warnings are in place with the region on alert for an Iranian response.

“We’ve heard the Supreme Leader loud and clear that he intends to avenge this killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran, and that they want to conduct another attack on Israel,” John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, told CNN. “We can’t just assume that we are also potentially going to be victims of that kind of an attack, so we’ve got to make sure we’ve got the right resources and capabilities in the region.”

Related article: Iran has no good options after two deadly strikes on senior allies

On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman, according to a statement from Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh.

In addition, destroyers and cruisers capable of ballistic missile defense will also be sent to the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea. The statement does not say which warships have been sent, but two US destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea took part in intercepting the barrage of strikes Iran launched against Israel in April.

Austin also ordered the deployment of a fighter squadron to the region, Singh said.

The US already has the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship in the region, which operates with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, capable of carrying out an evacuation of US citizens in Lebanon should it be ordered.

“The United States’ global defense is dynamic and the Department of Defense retains the capability to deploy on short notice to meet evolving national security threats,” Singh said in the statement.. . . .MORE  https://www.cnn.com/profiles/oren-liebermann

 

A Son of the New American Revolution“TED POSTOL’S ANALYSIS OF IRAN’S MISSILE ATTACK ON ISRAEL” by Larry Johnson ( 22 April 2024).    FacebookTwitterTelegramEmailShare
This is a highly technical analysis of the missiles employed by Iran and Israel and their “iron dome” missile defenses, including their financial costs, but it is clearly written and accompanied by clarifying graphics.     https://sonar21.com/ted-postols-analysis-of-irans-missile-attack-on-israel/

 

Iran’s Attack Was A Legal Response To Israel’s Illegal Attack

By Marjorie Cohn.  TruthoutPopular Resistance.org (4-21-24). On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five additional people. The victims included Gen. Mohamad Reza Zahedi, head of Iran’s covert military operations in Lebanon and Syria, and two other senior generals. Although Israel’s attack violated the United Nations Charter, the UN Security Council refused to condemn it because the United States, the U.K. and France exercised their vetoes on April 4. -more-

 

“Israel tries to provoke Iran, escalate violence into a a broader regional war.”  The People’s Forum, Media Digest (4-20-24).   Last Friday, April 13, 2024, Iran fired hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in a historic retaliation to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. Israel’s attack, internationally condemned and illegal under international law, killed twelve Iranians including two generals, but Iran’s operation produced no casualties as the country only targeted military sites. Israel continues to escalate violence in the region, and Iran has shown that it will respond as needed according to international law and will also continue to support Palestine. Western officials have denounced Iran’s actions and have said they will impose new sanctions on the country. In Gaza, Israel continues to prepare for the ground invasion in Rafah—after rumors circulated that the U.S. had negotiated a smaller response from Israel to Iran’s bombing of the country by green-lighting an invasion of Rafah, the U.S. now claims this is not true.

 

Revealed: Israel’s Hidden History Of Attacks On Iran By Robert Inlakesh, MintPress NewsPopular Resistance.org (4-18-24).  While the international media’s attention was riveted on Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel, drawing great focus to some 300 drones and missiles used in the attack, no major deal was made of Israel’s strike on April 1 against the consular segment of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Syria, that killed a dozen people, including seven Iranian officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In this unprecedented act of aggression against Iranian soil, breaking international diplomatic norms, the Israelis were shielded by the U.S. government at the United Nations Security Council.... -more-

 

Checkmate” by SCOTT RITTER (APR 16, , 2024).

 

North Korea conducts a mass launch of ballistic missiles

The Iranian defeat of the US-Israeli missile defense architecture has global security consequences.

The world’s attention has, rightfully so, been focused on the fallout from Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel on April 13-14, 2024. Iran’s purpose in launching the attack was to establish a deterrence posture designed to put Israel and the United States on notice that any attack against Iran, whether on Iranian soil or on the territory of other nations, would trigger a retaliation which would inflict more damage on the attacker than the attacker could hope to inflict on Iran. To achieve this result, Iran had to prove itself capable of overcoming the ballistic missile defense systems of both Israel and the United States which were deployed in and around Israel at the time of the attack. This Iran was able to accomplish, with at least nine missiles striking two Israeli air bases that fell under the protective umbrella of the Israeli-US missile defense shield.

The Iranian deterrence posture has implications that reach far beyond the environs of Israel or the Middle East. . . .Iran successfully struck both locations with multiple missiles.

The global strategic implications of this stunning Iranian accomplishment are game-changing—the US has long struggled conceptually with the notion of what is referred to as “A2/AD” (anti-access/area denial) threats posed by hostile ballistic missiles. However, the US had sought to mitigate against this AA/A2 threat by overlaying theater ballistic missile defense architecture like that that had been employed in Israel. The failure of the combined US-Israeli defense systems in the face of a concerted Iranian missile attack exposed the short-comings of the US ballistic missile defense capabilities world-wide.

In short, this means that the US and NATO forces in Europe are vulnerable to attack from advanced Russian missile technologies which match or exceed those used by Iran to attack Israel. It also means that China would most likely be able to strike and sink US navy ships in the Pacific Ocean in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. And that North Korea could do the same to US ships and forces ashore in the vicinity of Japan and South Korea.

Until which time the US can develop, produce and deploy missile defense systems capable of defeating the new missile technology being deployed by nations like Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea, US military power projection capabilities are in a state of checkmate by America’s potential adversaries.         

 

 “ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 191: Iran Launches Retaliatory StrikesBy Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss   Popular Resistance.org (4-15-24).  On Saturday night, Iran launched its retaliatory strike on Israel for Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed two senior Iranian generals and ten others. Tensions had been rising in the week preceding Iran’s eventual attack, as both Israel and Iran exchanged threats and conducted maneuvers in preparation for the escalation. However, Reuters had reported on Thursday that Iran’s foreign minister, Hussein Amir Abdellahian, informed Washington during a visit to Oman that Iran would conduct its response in a way that “avoids escalation,” and that another U.S... -more-
 

Iran Had Legal Right To Counter-Attack Israel In Self-Defense

By Ben Norton, Geopolitical EconomyPopular Resistance.org (4-15-24).  Iran launched a historic attack on April 13, hitting Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles. Tehran invoked article 51 of the charter of the United Nations, which allowed it to act in self-defense in response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Syria on April 1. The US, Canada, and European governments loudly condemned Iran’s April 13 attack, portraying Tehran as the aggressor. However, Western officials failed to mention that Iran was acting in self-defense. Before the Iranian counter-attack, the leading British think tank Chatham House published an article admitting that the “Israeli attack on Iran’s... -more-

 

SCOTT RITTER.  The Missiles of April.”  Scott Ritter Extra <scottritter@substack.com>   APR 14, 2024.

 

 

An Iranian missile is launched. Scores of these missiles were used to attack Israel.

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century.

I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I followed this book up with another, Dealbreaker, in 2018, which brought this US-Israeli effort up to date.

Back in November 2006, in an address to Columbia University’s School of International Relations, I underscored that the United States would never abandon my “good friend” Israel until, of course, we did. What could precipitate such an action, I asked? I noted that Israel was a nation drunk of hubris and power, and unless the United States could find a way to remove the keys from the ignition of the bus Israel was navigating toward the abyss, we would not join Israel in its lemming-like suicidal journey.

The next year, in 2007, during an address to the American Jewish Committee, I pointed out that my criticism of Israel (which many in the audience took strong umbrage against) came from a place of concern for Israel’s future. I underscored the reality that I had spent the better part of a decade trying to protect Israel from Iraqi missiles, both during my service in Desert Storm, where I played a role in the counter-SCUD missile campaign, and as a United Nations weapons inspector, where I worked with Israeli intelligence to make sure Iraq’s SCUD missiles were eliminated.

Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 151 of Ask the Inspector.

“The last thing I want to see,” I told the crowd, “is a scenario where Iranian missiles were impacting on the soil of Israel. But unless Israel changes course, this is the inevitable outcome of a policy driven more by arrogance than common sense.”

On the night of 13-14 April 2024, my concerns were played out live before an international audience—Iranian missiles rained down on Israel, and there was nothing Israel could do to stop them. As had been the case a little more than 33 years prior, when Iraqi SCUD missiles overcame US and Israeli Patriot missile defenses to strike Israel dozens of times over the course of a month and a half, Iranian missiles, integrated into a plan of attack which was designed to overwhelm Israeli missile defense systems, struck designated targets inside Israel with impunity.

Despite having employed an extensive integrated anti-missile defense system comprised of the so-called “Iron Dome” system, US-made Patriot missile batteries, and the Arrow and David’s Sling missile interceptors, along with US, British, and Israeli aircraft, and US and French shipborne anti-missile defenses, well over a dozen Iranian missiles struck heavily-protected Israeli airfields and air defense installations.

The Iranian missile attack on Israel did not come out of the blue, so to speak, but rather was retaliation for an April 1 Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate building, in Damascus, Syria, that killed several senior Iranian military commanders. While Israel has carried out attacks against Iranian personnel inside Syria in the past, the April 1 strike differed by not only killing very senior Iranian personnel, but by striking what was legally speaking sovereign Iranian territory—the Iranian consulate.

From an Iranian perspective, the attack on the consulate was a redline which, if not retaliated against, would erase any notion of deterrence, opening the door for even more brazen Israeli military action, up to and including direct attacks on Iran. Weighing against retaliation, however, were a complex web of interwoven policy objectives which would probably be mooted by the kind of large-scale conflict between Israel and Iran that could be precipitated by any meaningful Iranian retaliatory strike on Israel. . . .  MORE  click on title

The “Missiles of April” represent a sea-change moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics—the establishment of Iranian deterrence that impacts both Israel and the United States. While emotions in Tel Aviv, especially among the more radical conservatives of the Israeli government, run high, and the threat of an Israeli retaliation against Iran cannot be completely discounted, the fact is the underlying policy objective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the course of the past 30-plus years, namely to drag the US into a war with Iran, has been put into checkmate by Iran.

Moreover, Iran has been able to accomplish this without either disrupting its strategic pivot to the east or undermining the cause of Palestinian statehood. “Operation True Promise,” as Iran named its retaliatory attack on Israel, will go down in history as one of the most important military victories in the history of modern Iran, keeping in mind that war is but an extension of politics by other means. The fact that Iran has established a credible deterrence posture without disrupting major policy goals and objectives is the very definition of victory.

Netanyahu Killed A Top Iranian General To Provoke Regional ConflictBy James North, Mondoweiss. Popular Resistance.org (4-6-24).   Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a Mideast regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience. Israel’s provocative aerial assassination of a senior Iranian military leader in Damascus on April 1 is only Netanyahu’s latest effort to expand the fighting across the region, partly to put off his own painful day of reckoning. He knows that America has troops stationed all over the Mideast, and he hopes that Iran will retaliate against them, escalating conflict. -more-

Israel Airstrike 'Flattens' Iranian Consulate In Damascus

By News Desk, The Cradle.  Popular Resistance.org (5-3-24).   Israeli airstrikes destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April, killing and injuring several Iranian diplomats in what is viewed as a significant escalation of the regional war between Israel and the Axis of Resistance. "Around 17:00 this afternoon, the 'Israeli' enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting the Iranian consulate building in Damascus. Our air defenses confronted the enemy's missiles, downing some of them," the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced Monday. -more-

 

2023

“Iran-Saudi Peace Deal is Huge News.”  The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong.     

Journalist Danny Haiphong provides excellent analysis of the Iran-Saudi peace deal. It promises massive implications for peace all across the Middle East, the End of Warmongering U.S. Unipolar Hegemony & the Rise of China as a Global Peace Leader in a new Multipolar Order.  If you can find time, please listen:

https://m.youtube.com/live/gscBFrSJjT0?feature=share  (Abel Tomlinson).

 

2022

“HOW ISRAEL EXPLOITS THE ‘IRAN THREAT’—TWO VIEWS.”  WRMEA (October 2022). 

The Iran Threat: Fact or Fiction?” by Dr. M. Reza Behnam.  The fraudulent Iran threat serves to distract citizens from Israel’s despotic treatment of the Palestinians.

Do Not Disturb: Israel is Battling Iran” bu Gideon Levy.  Israel’s war against the Iranian nuclear project serves its oppression of the Palestinians.

 

Gareth Porter's book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is a master class in how war lies are created, distributed, and given the strength of unquestionable permanence. And now Gareth wants to discuss it with you and answer your questions in a small online book club.

Gareth shows how the Israeli and U.S. governments successfully portrayed various actions taken by Western nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as responses to Iranian covert work on militarization of its nuclear program -- even though the Israeli-U.S. actions came prior to and led to Iran's secretive efforts, which were actually to boost its legal nuclear energy program. Porter documents the use of forged papers, the manipulation of the IAEA, and the manipulation of the public.

"Gareth Porter has become a one-man truth squad for the American government and its acolytes in the mainstream press corps…His probing and digging is a reminder that those in power, and those who report on that power, must be held to the highest possible standard." —Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist

A World BEYOND War book club makes a terrific gift for yourself or a friend or loved one. It's a fun and educational way to support ending all war. Click here to learn more and sign up.

 

2021

Israel pushes U.S. into ‘aggressive posture toward Iran that could spiral into war’ — but mainstream press is indifferent.”

Philip Weiss.  Mronline.org (12-19-21).

Trump says, Netanyahu was 'willing to fight Iran to the last American soldier.' That ought to be big news, as Israel's defense minister gets unrivaled access in D.C. to threaten war and block the U.S. path to a new Iran deal.

 

“'Close friends' Biden and Bennett leave progressive Americans out in the cold.”  Mondoweiss (8-29-21).

 

Progressive groups condemned Joe Biden's embrace of Israeli PM Naftali Bennett yesterday and of continued support for Israel, with no reference to its apartheid policies against Palestinians. While Israel supporters say that Bennett got everything that he wanted from the meeting, including a suggestion the U.S. would use force against Iran.    READ MORE

 

Ted Snider.  If Israel accuses Iran of doing something, Israel is likely already doing it.”  Eds. MR Online |March 27, 2021 | Newswire

Israel has accused Iran of doing many nefarious things. But the historical record shows that whatever Israel accuses Iran of, it is likely that Israel is already doing it.

 

2020

Iran Calls On The International Community To Confront Israel. “  PopularResistance.org (12-3-20).  By Telesur English. Iran is asking the international community to confront the Israeli regime's actions, "a murderer of children" and "a violator of human rights." In a message sent on Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Iranian President Hasan Rohani has declared Iran's strong support for the Palestinian people to achieve their ideals. Rohani condemned the recent actions of the Israeli regime against the Palestinians, including the killing of Palestinians in custody and the torture of prisoners, especially women and children... -more-

Iran claims Israel carried out killing remotely.”
COM­PILED BY DEMO­CRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE RE­PORTS, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, MR Online |March 27, 2021 | Newswire.   Dec 01, 2020.  Of­fi­cial pledges con­tin­u­a­tion of sci­en­tist’s ef­forts.   Read more...  From Pat.

 

“Iran leader calls for punishment.”
COM­PILED BY DEMO­CRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE RE­PORTS, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Nov 29, 2020, Is­raeli em­bassies put on high alert.  Read more...
Via Pat.


3 articles on Iran and Israel in the Supplement to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Aug.Sept. 2020)


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Jan 6, 2020 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel sought on Tuesday to stand aside from the conflict between its close ally the United States and Iran, and said it ...

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Sep 4, 2019 - Israel Is Doing All the Dirty Work Against Iran. The United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one ...

 

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Nov 23, 2019 - Iran and Israel have escalated their conflict in Syria, but they're both looking to Russia to prevent an all-out war.  

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Nov 4, 2019 - The senior ministers of the Israeli government met twice last week to discuss the possibility of open war with Iran. They were mindful of the ...   


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Nov 27, 2019 - US and Israeli military officials met on Sunday and discussed the Iranian threat to Israel, an Israeli military source told the Anadolu Agency.  

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