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Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.
The post It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention” appeared first on The Intercept.
Private equity is looking to get its cut of the wartime economy.
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
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The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves
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The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.
The post With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank appeared first on The Intercept.
The far-right Center for Security Policy, led by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney, is best known for peddling conspiracy theories.
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“The threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” — Will Saltan, The Bulwark
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Listen up here, you jobless paid agitators. The US had to attack Iran because Iran has been an imminent threat to the US for forty-seven years. Some critics will probably say that a forty-seven-year-old threat doesn’t sound so imminent and that I don’t know what the word even means, or have never seen a dictionary, and don’t really understand how language works. To them I say: photosynthesis. Followed by: This is not the time for linguistic nitpicking.