by Christine Ahn | May 19, 2026 | Afghanistan, Airstrikes, Bombs, Cambodia, diaspora, diplomacy, Gaza, Iran, iran war, Iraq War, Israel, Korea, Korean War, Laos, Lebanon, Op-Ed, Palestine, Peace, Pentagon, Resistance, Taliban, US foreign policy, Vietnam, Vietnam War, War, war in Afghanistan, war in Iran, Yemen
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy exhausted, but with airstrikes. Among the first confirmed casualties were more than a hundred schoolchildren killed in a strike on their elementary school in southern Iran. Within a month, 850 U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Iran. President Donald Trump has delivered on his promise to bomb Iran…
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by Stephen Zunes | May 6, 2026 | Cold War, Donald Trump, Europe, Iran, Iran nuclear agreement, Iran Nuclear Deal, Iran nuclear program, iran war, Iraq War, Jared Kushner, JCPOA, negotiations, Op-Ed, Sanctions, Steve Witkoff, Strait of Hormuz, Trump Administration, uranium enrichment, Vietnam War, War, war in Iran
U.S. efforts to force an end to the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz by attempting to escort a few U.S.-flagged ships through the Iranian closure will not only fail to relieve the worsening global fuel crisis and disruption of supply chains, it risks a resumption of full-scale war. The Trump administration has rejected Iran’s suggestion for negotiating an end to the blockade followed by a…
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by Sam Carliner | Apr 13, 2026 | Donald Trump, GI resistance, Iran, Iraq War, Militarism, Military, News, protest, Resistance, Vietnam War, War
As President Donald Trump increasingly uses the U.S. military to carry out his agenda through brute force, organizations that provide counseling services for U.S. servicemembers are reporting growing numbers of calls. These calls have further spiked in response to Trump’s war on Iran, one of the most unpopular in U.S. history. The United States has carried out the war through intense attacks…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 2, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, News, Pete Hegseth, Vietnam War, War Crimes
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth vowed to bomb Iran into the “Stone Ages” in concerning statements on Wednesday night harkening to Vietnam War-era atrocities, as the U.S. and Israel carry out strikes on life-supporting infrastructure in Iran. In his prime time remarks to the U.S. public on Wednesday night, Trump said that, over the next two to three weeks, the U.S.
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by Jesse Hagopian | Jan 17, 2026 | Coretta Scott King, history, Interview, Liberals, Martin Luther King Jr., Police Brutality, Racism, Segregation, the South, Vietnam War
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban honest teaching about race and gender, and public officials invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to call for restraint and “civility,” King’s legacy is being aggressively stripped of its political substance. Much of the scholarship and public memory of King has long privileged his work in the South, reinforcing the idea that…
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