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The Growing Nuclear Arsenals and Sharpened Rhetoric

The recent report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI), despite its assertion that “understanding the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts is a key part of their work”, has just issued alarming news that there is a “clear…

People’s Arms Embargo to Return to Travis Air Force Base to Demand Travis: Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Stop Aiding Unlawful Mass Deportations AND Disobey All Orders Enabling the Illegal War with Iran

What:  Nonviolent Human Blockade and Vigil During morning commute into Travis Air Force Base. When: 6:30am, Tuesday, June 24;   Where:  Meet at Main Gate (Air Base Parkway and Parker Rd. in parking lot next to Chevron station)    Activists from across Northern…

Overthrowing Iran to Contain China

The Offensive Against Iran as a Link in the Containment of China: The Bully’s Move on a Board He No Longer Controls By Claudia Aranda The ongoing aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be interpreted solely through the…

Spain will ask the European Union to suspend the association agreement with Israel

As reported by the EFE news agency today, Spain will ask the European Union to ‘immediately’ suspend the association agreement with Israel, an embargo on arms sales by the EU. “It is not denunciations that will stop this inhumane war…

Iran has been cornered

The blatant and treacherous aggression of the United States cannot be left unanswered, as this would mean the destruction of the domestic and international image of the government, which has long publicly and solemnly accepted the challenge of the empire.…

Statement by H.E. Mr. Amir Saeid Iravani Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Before the United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting

We thank Anthony Donovan for providing Pressenza in NYC with the transcript of the statement delivered today, June 22, 2025, by Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N. during the Security Council Emergency Meeting. Thank you, Madam President, for your valuable efforts…

Gaza and the Undoing of Zionism

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence During a sabbatical I spent in West Jerusalem in the late 1980s, my 7-year-old daughter was enrolled in an Israeli…

In the mist of the Iran crisis Cuban president calls for the elimination of all nuclear weapons

Last week, Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, called today for the total elimination of nuclear weapons as the only guarantee for peace. In his address to…

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Montreal as the Americans attacked Iran

The diplomatic efforts between Iran, France, Germany, and Great Britain failed to reach an agreement regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment program on Friday. But according to Wadephul, the German Foreign Minister, the Iranian side was fundamentally ready to continue talking about…

Digital Gladiators: Why We Still Cheer for Violence

As I scroll through my phone, absorbing the relentless updates about the Iran-Israel conflict, I’m confronted by images that blur the line between reality and simulation. Towering buildings reduced to rubble, missiles streaking across skies like something out of a…

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