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US attacks hurt but Iran’s nuclear ambition will endure
With stealth bombers and bunker busters, the US just punched a hole through the heart of Iran’s fortified nuclear program. Multiple news outlets reported that US forces struck Iran’s three primary nuclear sites, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, late...

More Validation for Trump: Poll Shows Even Democrats Are Concerned About Iran Acquiring Nuclear Weapon
As Townhall has been covering since even before President Donald Trump announced an attack had been launched against Iran's nuclear program, polling shows that he has enjoyed unified support from his fellow Republicans on this crucial matter. Many...

U.S.’s heavy duty attack on Iran’s nuke sites
The story so far: On June 21, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military carried out precision strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities, mainly Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. He further stated that the strikes were a...

US attack on Iran lacks legal justification and could lead to more nuclear proliferation
After a stern warning from Donald Trump, Israel and Iran appear finally to be observing a US-brokered ceasefire announced by Donald Trump overnight on June 23. But just as it remains unclear what the state of the conflict is, many other...

B-2 stealth bomber priciest warplane on earth used in Iran strikes
WASHINGTON: The US Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were involved in strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites on Saturday. The B-2 is one of America’s most advanced strategic weapons platforms, capable of entering sophisticated air defences and...

Trouble in the National Guard
The Bush years are back. With the war drums now beating once more, America is stumbling, drunk on jingoistic fervour, to the bad old days of the early 2000s — from the platitudes about regime change, to the shock-and-awe campaigns, to the neocon...

Chairman HEC vows to strengthen academic ties with Islamic World
- Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, Jun 24 (APP):Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed has underlined Pakistan’s resolve to strengthen academic collaboration across the Islamic world. Chairman HEC was delivering his keynote address...

Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?
It’s been 80 years since the first nuclear summer when the U.S. unleashed the power of the atom on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Four score later, we’re in another war, despite yesterday’s declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Few in the...

U.S. Carries Out Limited Strike on Iran’s Known Nuclear Sites (Updates)
After weeks of diplomacy and strategic leveraging, the United States unleashed bunker bombs on three selected, known locations in Iran where nuclear weapon development was clearly weeks, if not days away. There was new, recent evidence that some...

Egypt Cracks Down on the “Global March to Gaza” - By suppressing an effort to break the Gaza siege, activists say Egypt has once again prioritized its alignment with Israel and the US over its stated commitments to Palestinian rights.
On June 10th, activists affiliated with the International Coalition Against the Israeli Occupation, a broad alliance of trade unions, solidarity movements, and human rights groups, tried to organize the “Global March to Gaza.” At the event,...

Why Iran Won’t Fall: History, Resistance, And The Illusion Of Regime Change
To understand the present, one must revisit the betrayal of 1953. Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, nationalised Iranian oil, challenging the British-dominated Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now BP. His move was bold...

The United States of Africa: African Unity in Ouagadougou
The following is a sample chapter from my novel The United States of Africa. “I propose to show how in practice African Unity, which in itself can only be established by the defeat of neocolonialism, could immensely raise African living...

Trump’s War Gamble: “Isolationist” President Opens Pandora’s Box With Iran
Participants: Anne Kim, Contributing Editor and podcast host, Washington Monthly Paul Glastris, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Monthly Matthew Cooper, Executive Editor Digital, Washington Monthly Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor, The National Interest A...

The Western Nations Are Concerned About A Shia Nuke
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be wrong to believe that Israel and the United States of America are the only two countries strongly against Iran’s bid to become a nuclear-armed country. The entire world is concerned about nuclear proliferation and...

Israel-Iran war ripples threaten Middle East and beyond
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaks in the White House, Washington, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear sites, June 21,...
15 Cool Secrets of the Bunker Buster Bombs (B2) Spirit Stealth Bomber used in U.S. Strikes on Iran
The B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber: Unveiling 15 Cool Secrets of the Aircraft Used in U.S. Strikes on Iran The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, often referred to as the Stealth Bomber, is one of the most advanced and enigmatic aircraft in the U.S. Air...

Why Israel Should be Dispossessed of Its Nuclear Arsenal
All the old tropes have been resurrected to entice us into another military fiasco. A country that poses no threat to us, or to its neighbors, is on the verge of acquiring a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) that imperils our existence. The country...

3:03 p.m. early and often early and often Supreme Court Approves Deportations to Unfamiliar ‘Third Countries’ By Ed Kilgore The six conservative justices validated a cruel practice in an unsigned order with not a word of explanation.
A Supreme Court that is clearly undergoing a MAGA renovation. Photo: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg/Getty Images The monthslong saga of judicial challenges to the Trump administration’s mass-deportation procedures took a sickening turn on June 23, with a...
Where Is Iran's Uranium? Top Secret Leaked US Intel Says Core Nuclear Components 'Intact'
Update(1605ET): Where is Iran's Uranium? Truce Highlights Mystery Over Stockpile... that's Bloomberg's latest headline over the 'biggest mystery' that remains in the war. There's also the pressing question of whether Trump's massive airstrikes...

Presidents vs. Congress: Trump is the latest to test the War Powers Act
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump isn't the first president to order military strikes without congressional approval. But his decision to bomb Iran comes at a uniquely volatile moment — both at home and abroad. Overseas, the U.S. risks deeper entanglement...