Immediately following the 1988 downing of Iranian Air Flight 655 by USS Vincennes (290 deaths), The Thatcherite cult mockingly known as a government defended the Reagan regime with recently declassified documents revealing Thatcher helped cover it up, ingenuously supporting embarrassingly ridiculous US claims that the plane was “outside the ( Read more... )

"When Biden the Meek brought up the butchering of Jamal Khashoggi with MBS, Crown Prince Bonesaws snapped: “What did the US do about the [Israeli] killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.” Checkmate."
--- Roaming Charges

By Juan Cole

On Monday, Iran witnessed the largest crowd actions in its history, as millions came out into the streets of cities large and small in a combination of mourning and protest on behalf of assassinated military commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani ( Read more... )

By Murtaza Hussain

UNTIL HIS DEATH last night... Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was the United States’s most formidable adversary in the Middle East. As commander of the Quds Force, the external operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Suleimani fought a decade long proxy war against the U.S. and its allies across Iraq and the ( Read more... )

By Chris Hedges

The assassination by the United States of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, near Baghdad’s airport will ignite widespread retaliatory attacks against U.S. targets from Shiites, who form the majority in Iraq. It will activate Iranian-backed militias and insurgents in Lebanon and Syria and throughout the ( Read more... )