(2025-06-16). The Folly of the US/Israeli War on Iran. counterpunch.org 
The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran.
(2025-06-16). The Folly Of A War With Iran. popularresistance.org The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran. | Iran is not Iraq. Iran is not Afghanistan. Iran is not Lebanon. Iran is not Libya. Iran is not Syria. Iran is not Yemen. Iran is the seventeenth largest country in the world, with a land mass equivalent to the size of Western Europe. It has a population of almost 90 million — 10 times greater t…
(2025-06-16). Coordinated Humanitarian Transfer Moves Families Out of Al-Hawl. themedialine.org 
(2025-06-16). ICRC in Syria: Year in Review 2024. icrc.org
(2025-06-16). Solidarity Against ICE And The Entire State Apparatus. popularresistance.org The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression. Social media is replete with examples of Black people declaring that they don't care about genocide in Gaza, or that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nothing to do with them or even that they are glad other people are targeted for deportation.
(2025-06-16). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.
(2025-06-16). We've Reached Our Critical Tipping Points. counterpunch.org 
Discussions about "tipping points" have been getting plenty of coverage in the last few years as the planet hurtles forward in a climate crisis we seem incapable of stopping. Ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels rising more rapidly than expected, acidification of the oceans, and vast wildfires sweep the globe as the Sixth
(2025-06-16). New Zealand Rich List exceeds $100 billion amid cost-of-living crisis. wsws.org New Zealand's 119 richest individuals and families, including 18 billionaires, control $102.1 billion, up from $95.55 billion last year—equivalent to more than 40 percent of the country's annual GDP.