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The US and Israel Have No Plan: Because Collapse Is the Plan
I don’t think it’s controversial any longer to proclaim that the ruling class of the US and Israel (USrael) are idiot psychopaths (idiopaths). Some around the globe have noticed the two administrations sinking all of us into a possible global economic meltdown / possible nuclear war / probable really shitty 2026 don’t seem to have […]
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Trump Orders Central Command to “Obliterate” All Military Targets on Kharg Island and Threatens to “Wipe Oil” Infrastructure

In a major escalation of the war, Trump wrote on Truth Social last night that he ordered the US Central Command to conduct a bombing raid that “obliterated every MILITARY target on Iran’s crown jewel.” He said that “For reasons of decency, I have NOT chosen to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the island, […]
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Operation Epic Folly
If America attacks … Iranians will unite, forgetting their differences with their government, and they will fiercely and tenaciously defend their country. — Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate1 The only thing truly epic about the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is the chasm between the facts on the ground and the media […]
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In Memoriam Berta Cáceres
Ten years ago, Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), a company planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous […]
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To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription
Driving home from my coffee at the local food co-op in a suburb just north of Philadelphia, I passed by the gas station at the local 7-ll store. Now owned by a Japanese company, 7-11 is one of the largest gas chains in the US. I found myself thinking how back in the early years […]
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The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. […]
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Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran
DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod, who teaches Political Science at Moravian University, is the guest on Berks Community TV’s “Centering on Peace” program. In this episode titled “Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran,” Farbod traces the origins of the current war from the beginnings of the 20th Century to today. The host is John […]
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On the Brink in Hormuz: How the Iran War Exposes a Dying Order

Not so long ago, the Iran war could still be treated as a “shock” to the system—a sudden, violent anomaly that spooked traders, sent a few charts vertical, then, we were told, would be absorbed. Oil would spike and settle. Gasoline would lurch higher and then ease. Fertilizer prices would jump and “normalize.” Shipping would […]
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Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz

The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at relatively low cost. — Alex Mills, The Atlantic Council, March 12, 2026 With each day of glorified actions against Iran, with each cloudy press session claiming supreme success through sheer force, the […]
