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Conversation with Historian Ervand Abrahamian about Protests in Iran, Israel, and the US Imperialism
DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod interviewed Ervand Abrahamian on January 11, 2026, about the new wave of protests in Iran that began on December 28, 2025. Discussions also touched on the US invasion of Venezuela, US imperialism, late-stage capitalism, and the European, Russian, and Chinese positions vis-a-vis a possible second round of US/Israeli military attack on […]
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Spectral Threats: China, Russia and Trump’s Greenland Rationale
The concerns about China and Russia seizing Greenland retells the same nonsense President Donald Trump promoted in kidnapping the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Looking past the spurious narcoterrorism claims against the former leader, it fell to the issue of who would control the natural resources of the country. If we don’t get […]
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Whitewashing U.S. Barbarism by Smearing Russia and China
The Western media are doing what they usually do: minimizing and covering up the criminal aggression of the United States. Trump’s blatantly illegal military attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of its president, the murder of foreign nationals, and theft of the country’s vast oil resources are not being called out for the litany of grave […]
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Kidnap Presidents
What was defined at Nuremberg as the supreme international crime (one country attacking another one) is depicted by Trump and even the supposedly anti-Trump corporate media as some sort of law enforcement. Bombing is liberating. Kidnapping is capturing. Murdering people on boats is “impeding the flow of drugs.” Imagine if, say, Saudi Arabia or Norway […]
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The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down
If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in […]
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Distinguishing Chinese Countermeasures from US Sanctions
On 26 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced countermeasures against US military-related companies and senior executives. Most western mass media has been referring to China as imposing sanctions rather than countermeasures, but the distinction is important. The US uses sanctions offensively, as a punitive measure to achieve […]
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Iran Rejects US Terms at UN Council
DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) this morning to discuss the escalating U.S.-Iran nuclear standoff and the sharp divisions at the UN Security Council over the status of UNSC Res. 2231, the snapback mechanism, the reimposition of sanctions against Iran, and uranium enrichment. The post Iran Rejects US Terms at UN Council first […]
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Security Is Indivisible — and History Matters
Chancellor Merz, You have spoken repeatedly of Germany’s responsibility for European security. That responsibility cannot be discharged through slogans, selective memory, or the steady normalization of war talk. Security guarantees are not one-way instruments. They go in both directions. This is not a Russian argument, nor an American one; it is a foundational principle of […]
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Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
The president’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States. The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) recently released by President Donald Trump presents itself as a blueprint for renewed American strength. […]
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