Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Deal or no deal, what Wes Love wants is certainty. His Toronto-area business, Taurus Craco, imports machinery from overseas and distributes it across North America, mainly to the United States. But President Donald Trump’s shifting tariffs on Canadian products have left him, like many independent business owners,...
Sally Nabil BBC World Service Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son. Three years ago, the former sandwich seller left home to...
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with...
1) When I set out to write this report, even the title gave me pause. „Fleeing“—it wasn’t a word I wanted to use. But it’s the truth. I fled. We fled. We escaped Tehran, running not because we had any connection to the Islamic Republic or to Israel, but simply to survive the bombs falling...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images The UK must “actively prepare for the possibility of the UK coming under direct threat, potentially in a wartime scenario,” the government has warned. In its national security strategy, it said the nation was “in an era in which we face confrontation with those who are threatening security” and...
US President Donald Trump’s claim of an agreed ceasefire between Israel and Iran leads The Daily Telegraph. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the stop to fighting would be “complete and total”, although being implemented in increments, starting from 05:00 BST on Tuesday. Also on the Telegraph’s front page, Prime Minister Sir...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Shortly after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States had conducted strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address in English, with a gleeful look...
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BBC As the world holds its breath to see what happens next after the US launched direct attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, US President Donald Trump is expected in the Netherlands on Tuesday for a Nato summit. This will be Trump’s first Nato meeting since being re-elected. In the past, he’s made angry comments about...
President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a “successful” bombing attack on three nuclear sites in Iran and said they have been “obliterated”. Israel says they were in “full co-ordination” with the US in planning the strikes. Iranian officials have confirmed the facilities were struck but denied it had suffered a major blow....
After last night’s strikes on Iran, Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump’s decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill — with the notable exception...
After the unprovoked attack, Trump demanded that Iran effectively surrender while continuing to threaten the country. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. military struck...
Part of the Series The Public Intellectual Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront the Trump regime’s brutal campaign against immigrants,...
Sir Niall Ferguson on the new Cold War and the death of the internet. Read full article at source...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent, Washington Getty Images Trump with Director of National Intelligence Gabbard How close Iran has come to developing a nuclear weapon is the central question looming over Donald Trump’s decision on whether to join Israel’s military campaign. The issue, tinged with concerns about imminent threats to America and regional stability, has...