Tag: Iran war

Jessica Corbett, ‘It Needs to End. Now’: Trump and Allies Ripped for Lying to Dodge Iran War Powers Deadline

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Jessica Corbett “Republicans are out of excuses and should join Democrats and stop this war,” said one congressional Democrat. “Let’s put the pressure on.” Friday marks 60 days since President Donald Trump formally notified Congress of the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran—a key deadline under a relevant federal law. In a new notification obtained by Politico, the White House claimed the conflict has been “terminated,” but lawmakers aren’t buying that argument. “That’s bullshit,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said of the latest notification on social media. “This is an illegal war, and every day Republicans remain complicit and allow…

William de Berg, Kabuki Theater II?

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William de Berg The predominant narrative about the current Iran conflict is that Donald Trump made one of the greatest military historical blunders of all times by attempting to destroy a government and military of a nation of almost 93 million that hosts one of the world’s greatest reserves of natural resources and perhaps the third-largest fleet of advanced missiles and low-cost drones—all with a few thousand (belated) U.S. Marines and airborne soldiers and (initially) a single aircraft carrier over 1000 kilometers off-shore.  His supposed blunder resulted partly from the…

Ron Unz, Is Donald Trump Facing a Military Mutiny Over His Losing War with Iran? 

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Ron Unz   Over the last couple of weeks there have growing media reports that we were preparing to launch a ground invasion of Iranian territory even as more and more American troops were brought into the region. But at this very moment, the Trump Administration suddenly fired Randy George, America’s top Army general, along with a couple of others also of very high rank. It seems implausible that these important developments were totally unconnected. Conducting such a military purge in the early stages of a major war seemed unprecedented…