by Chris Walker | Jun 4, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, iran war, News, Transgender, Transphobia
During an interview that aired on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump responded to a question about the war in Iran by launching into a bigoted rant against transgender people. The New York Post’s Miranda Devine conducted the interview, asking the president for his response to people who have suggested that he was coerced or manipulated into starting the war by Israeli Prime Minister…
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by Amy Goodman | Jun 2, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Hezbollah, Interview, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, War
Israeli drones have killed at least eight people in Lebanon despite an announcement Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump that both Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop fighting. Trump’s intervention came as Israel threatened new strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, leading Iran to suspend indirect negotiations with the U.S. to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon.
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by George Yancy | May 16, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Interview, Iran, iran war, Israel, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, War, war in Iran, War On Terror
Perhaps some things should never be spoken — for, when they are, they leave us aghast, in a state of horror. Think here of the ghostly figure in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” During the height of the war on Iran, Donald Trump threatened: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Those are words that elicit something frightening, terrifying. Let’s be frank. The words…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 14, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, New York Times, News, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinians, Sexual Violence
Israel has announced that it will sue The New York Times and reporter Nicholas Kristof over a recent article called “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” which documents systemic sexual abuse by Israeli soldiers and settlers. In a social media post on May 14, Israel’s foreign ministry stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar “have…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 14, 2026 | Abraham Accords, Benjamin Netanyahu, iran war, Israel, News, UAE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the height of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement released on Wednesday. “The visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE,” the office claimed, after stating that Netanyahu had met with the UAE’s president…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 12, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, CBS News, Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is “not over” because Iran still has nuclear material that “has to be taken out” of the country. In a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast by CBS News on Sunday evening, Netanyahu said that the war on Iran has not ended because Iran still has enriched uranium that must be “taken out…
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