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France: Forward Deterrence and Going Backwards
To expand a stockpile of both the useless and the mindlessly murderous in a military sense would seem to be a wasteful exercise best contemplated in the psychiatric ward. But such a ward is increasingly occupied by the world’s leaders, and war is on their lost minds. As Israel and the United States continue their […]
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International Law Needs International Enforcement
Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent international conflict, efforts to establish global norms for nations in connection […]
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It’s About Children and Education: Melania Trump at the UN Security Council
Former British Conservative politician and current pundit Rory Stewart thought it might have been a case of artificial intelligence. Many would have agreed. The US First Lady, Melania Trump, had chanced upon a situation where she was chairing the UN Security Council. It was the turn of the United States to assume the Presidency of the […]
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The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy
The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that […]
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Loony Bin Rationales: The Continuing War on Iran
Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal preemptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land its perpetrators in the docks of the International Criminal Court continues to get increasingly muddled. With US President Donald Trump now given to […]
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Israel and the United States Cannot Win the War against Iran

Mitra Tabrizian (Iran), Tehran, 2006. To the girls of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran, who were killed by the illegal Israeli-US war of aggression. On 28 February, a few hours after negotiators said that Iran had accepted many of the demands regarding its nuclear programme, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. […]