(ANTIWAR.COM) — Declaring sanctions against Iran the “most biting ever imposed,” President Trump on Tuesday vowed to go after any companies worldwide that continue to do business with Iran, sanctioning them and forbid them access to the American market. Trump’s threats appear to have had some effect already, with Daimler AG, a German automaker, announcing that they are going […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Top European Union officials say they “deeply regret” President Trump’s move Monday to start reimposing nuclear sanctions on Iran. The officials also have promised to block the US sanctions and preserve the deal. A joint statement offered by the various top-ranking foreign policy officials in the EU, the Foreign Ministers of the three P5+1 parties and the […]
(CD) — Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa offensive last year. The siege took place between June and October 2017—right after Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis announced the […]
New AP investigation reveals the Saudi coalition “cut deals” with al-Qaeda in Yemen. (CD) — As the United States continues to fuel Yemen’s worsening humanitarian crisis, and boast that it’s targeting al Qaeda in the impoverished nation (AQAP) with airstrikes, new reporting reveals that the U.S.- and U.K-backed Saudi coalition waging a bombing campaign there is recruiting al Qaeda fighters to join […]
(MEMO) — The US on Monday moved to reimpose the first wave of pre-nuclear deal sanctions on Iran, largely targeting the country’s banking sector. Senior administration officials told reporters the economic penalties, which will be rigorously enforced, will go into effect at one minute after midnight (0401GMT) Tuesday morning. The sanctions target Tehran’s acquisition of US dollars, […]
(CD) — While European and Iranian leaders work to salvage the Iran nuclear deal after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States in May and reimposed his first round of sanctions on Monday, activists, survivors, and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui marked the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city by calling for the total elimination of the […]
Russian proposal is met with icy reception in Washington, according to US memo seen by Reuters. (MEE) — Russia has used a closely guarded communications channel with America’s top general to propose the two countries cooperate to rebuild Syria and repatriate refugees to the war-torn country, according to a US government memo seen by Reuters. The proposal […]
(CD) — As some of America’s most prominent corporate media outlets continued their lengthy blackout of Yemen’s deepening humanitarian crisis—a catastrophe made possible by the U.S. government’s enthusiastic military and political support for Saudi Arabia’s years-long assault on the starving nation—the Saudi-led coalition on Thursday reportedly killed as many as 50 people and injured dozens more in a massive bombing campaign targeting the Yemeni […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In new comments, President Trump is claiming NATO “was essentially going out of business” before he came along, and now will be “strong again.” He added that this is all because of him and his “strong tone” at the recent summit. Trump was declaring victory over the summit earlier this month, with claims that the nations had […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — What does it take to cast doubts on North Korea’s freeze of their ballistic missile program? Today, the Washington Post showed it takes only a single unnamed US official who claims to be “familiar with the intelligence.” The report starts by noting satellite photos from a month ago suggest work is underway at North Korea’s Sanumdong research […]
