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This Tehran Music School Took Ages to Build Up. Airstrikes Turned It to Rubble.
The destruction of Honiak Music Academy shows the devastating impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran's creative spaces.
From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice
The only reliable products of US airpower are devastated civilian populations and suppression of internal movements.
We Can’t Curb Nuclear Proliferation If We Don’t Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes
No credible nonproliferation policy begins by pretending not to see the bombs your ally already has.
No Kings Must Mean No War: Foreign Policy Is Least Democratic Space in Politics
A movement in the name of democracy must resist imperial ambition done in our name and with our money.
Trump Has Made the US War Machine a Spectacle – and It’s Spectacularly Unpopular
Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let’s channel public anger into organizing.
Somali Communities Are Building Collective Power in the Face of Trump’s Attacks
Minnesota’s Somali community has organized mutual aid and neighborhood patrols amid Trump’s campaign to crush them.
Experts Say Even Average Venezuelans Critical of Maduro Won’t Back Regime Change
A US military attack “would bring more chaos, more poverty,” one Caracas resident said.
Trump’s National Security Strategy Is Pax Americana With a MAGA Twist
“The stunning section devoted to Europe reads like a far-right pamphlet,” said a former French ambassador to the US.
The Christian Zionist View of Foreign Policy Is Holy War
Christian Zionists see Israel as the focus of US foreign policy -- a handy euphemism for US empire.
Congress to Consider Bills That Would Gut Oversight of US Arms Sales
If passed, the bills would reduce vetting of future sales in the name of speeding up the process.