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No War on Iran

U.S. bombing of Iran, following on from and inseparably linked to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly shows to the world its future if the U.S. war drive is not defeated.

A crushing majority of world public opinion, as shown in repeated votes at the United Nations and opinion polls, opposes Israel’s genocide in Gaza. An Economist/YouGov opinion poll, whose sponsors cannot be accused of the slightest bias in favour of Iran, showed Americans opposed the U.S. launching a military attack on Iran by 60% to 16%.

But the U.S and Israel, totally isolated both internationally, and in terms of U.S. public opinion, decided they would attempt to rely on pure military power. It is the image of the future for the world portrayed in Orwell’s 1984: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Needless to say, with this willingness to go against the overwhelming majority of world and even U.S. domestic opinion, the Trump administration was prepared to breach the U.S. constitution, which gives to the Congress the sole power to declare war, and to act in direct violation of international law – there has been no United Nations Security Council resolution under Chapter VII of the UN Charter that allows the United States to attack Iran..

The U.S. attack is also based on straight forward and systematic lying and falsification. The U.S. claim that Iran s on the brink of producing nuclear weapons is shown to be false by both the International Atomic Energy Authority and US security agencies....

June 24, 2025

Why Trump’s Golden Dome must be opposed – Bruce Gagnon & Dae-Han Song

In January 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US armed forces to construct a missile defense system – the ‘Golden Dome’ – a proposed multi-layer defense system, comparable to the Iron Dome system in Israel. It aims to place and maintain space weapons orbit, for the first time in history.

The proposed system will be exorbitant. According to US Congress sources it could cost several trillion dollars. This would require the US to cut every one of its remaining social programs.

Such a military system would inflict ever more damage to the environment both on and around our planet.

Trump wants such a system, so that the US can launch a nuclear attack on another nuclear armed country and the US be confident that it has sufficient defenses to reduce the impact of any retaliatory missiles launched against US to levels deemed acceptable to US military planners.

As the US advances its war drive, it is developing its military alliances with other countries and locking them into its war preparations. Military coordination is being stepped up with increased ‘interoperability’ of hardware. In these alliances, such as NATO, it is always the US that is ‘in charge of the tip of the spear’.

Bruce Gagnon, in discussion with Dae-Han Song, explains why the proposed Golden Dome should be opposed....

June 18, 2025

South Korea’s President Lee shouldn’t attend NATO: Amidst crises, peace is pragmatic

By Dae-Han Song

In his inaugural speech, South Korea’s recently elected President Lee Jae-myung declared that ‘no peace is too expensive; it is always better than war’. The words capture an idealism packaged in Lee’s pragmatism. Indeed, at a time when the US Cold War against China is turning Asia into a tinderbox, when global temperatures have exceeded a 1.5°C increase, and South Korea’s economy and society are reeling from martial law, peace is the only pragmatic way forward. As such, Lee’s hesitancy in attending the June NATO Summit was a welcome contrast to former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s enthusiastic participation....

June 18, 2025

The illegal attack on Iran

By Vijay Prashad

Israel’s attacks on Iran, backed by the US and EU, violate international law and aim to maintain regional dominance by undermining Iran’s sovereignty, despite Iran’s compliance with nuclear agreements.

Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign state in the international order. If Israel had a problem with Iran, there are many mechanisms mandated by international law that permit Israel to bring complaints against Iran.

Thus far, Israel has avoided these international forums because it is clear that it has no case against Iran. Allegations that Iran is building a nuclear weapon, which are constantly raised by the United States, the European Union, and Israel, have been fully investigated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and found to be unfounded. It is certainly true that Iran has a nuclear energy programme that is within the rules in place through the IAEA, and it is also true that Iran’s clerical establishment has a fatwa (religious edict) in place against the production of nuclear weapons. Despite the IAEA findings and the existence of this fatwa, the West – egged on by Israel – has accepted this irrational idea that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and that Iran is therefore a threat to the international order. Indeed, by its punctual and illegal attacks on Iran, it is Israel that is a threat to the international order....

June 17, 2025

NATO – The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth

Next week, on 24 and 25 June, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will meet in The Hague for its annual summit – the first since Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency.

Established by the US to confront the USSR, control Germany and hold the balance of power in Europe – according to the CIA – since the fall of the USSR, NATO has been systematically widening its mandate and ambitions far beyond the North Atlantic.

As the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in March, when visited Trump in the Oval Office, he was eager to ‘work together to ensure that [the NATO summit] will be a splash, a real success projecting American power on the world stage’.

Trump’s US is determined that the European NATO states step up their engagement with the US war drive, support the US-led cold war, and increase military preparations and spending for US-led hot wars.

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, No Cold War and the Zetkin Forum for Social Research have produced a valuable dossier: NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth, which can be read and downloaded from here.

June 16, 2025

Women – leading the struggle for peace in Korea – Cathi Choi & Dae-Han Song

On 24 May 2015, 30 women from across the world visited North Korea and then made an historic crossing of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to South Korea.

This crossing marked a new chapter of international feminist solidarity with all Korean women, but also all Koreans, who are trying to build a sustainable peace in Korea and also to challenge Cold War ‘forever war’ frameworks.

There had been a coalition of international women during the Korean War itself, during the years of active fighting, between 1950 and 1953, that bore witness and reported back to the world of the horrors that they were witnessing, of the millions of civilians being killed.

And now, it is important to draw attention to what ‘forever war’ means. The Korean War has not been ended. Families are divided. We have millions of landmines still buried at the DMZ.

Cathi Choi, from ‘Women Cross DMZ’ (a global movement of women mobilizing for peace on the Korean Peninsula) speaks to Dae-Han Song about the significance of that crossing in 2015, the movement that has since come together, and its campaigning work for a peace settlement in Korea....

June 11, 2025

It’s time for the US to end the Korean War – Cathi Choi & Dae-Han Song

The Korean War, that started in 1950, has still not officially ended. In 1953 there was a ceasefire but since then there has been no peace treaty agreed. So, for 72 years the US has kept North Korea internationally isolated and repeatedly blocked negotiations to agree a treaty.

Following this month’s Presidential election in South Korea, the US described the elections as ‘fair’ but expressed concern about Chinese interference – promoting the political myth advanced by South Korea’s far-right. The far-right, both in S Korea and the US, use the same anti-China talking points about Korea.

In this video, Cathi Choi and Dae-Han Song discuss: the many attempts at achieving a peace treaty and how the US in the end has always backed out; how the US views its diplomacy with North Korea as a reward, not an obligation; and the significance of this month’s election of President Lee Jae-myung in South Korea, given he is favourable to assisting US-N Korea peace talks. Cathi explains how within the US the Korean War is seen as the ‘forgotten war’ – and how in the offices of Congress there is ignorance of US-N Korea relations.

The campaigns of the peace movements seeking an end to the Korean War should be supported. Wherever you are in the world there is something you can do....

June 07, 2025

It’s time to consign NATO to the dustbin of history

By Biljana Vankovska

As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in Gaza – the sane and moral world must roar in defiance, shattering ideological shackles. NATO is a zombie alliance, lurching forward despite its irrelevance, its fangs dripping with the blood of nations it claims to protect. In Ukraine, NATO’s members pour fuel on the inferno, championing escalation over peace. The United States, its puppet-master, plays a vile charade – preaching peace while strong-arming allies to bankroll its war machine. Trump’s $175 billion Golden Dome, a space-based missile defence boondoggle, is a reckless gambit that threatens global annihilation....

June 04, 2025

Europe’s left must unite to oppose NATO’s rearmament and austerity

By John Ross

As Europe approaches NATO’s 24–26 June summit in The Hague, its 750 million people face a decisive strategic choice that will affect their lives for years to come – and one with far wider global impact.

The policies implemented in Europe in recent years have been disastrous socially, economically, politically, and militarily. Europe is experiencing worsening social conditions, its largest war since 1945 in Ukraine, and the biggest rise of far-right authoritarian, racist, and xenophobic forces since the Nazis in the 1930s.

The proposals to the NATO summit would worsen that situation. The key question is therefore whether Europe will continue down this destructive, disastrous path or adopt policies that offer a way out.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has proposed to the 32 NATO members that ‘the NATO summit… aim for 3.5% hard military spending by 2032’ – a 75% increase from the previous 2.0% of GDP target.

Trump calls for even higher military expenditure of 5% of GDP. Rutte opened the door to this by supporting a commitment to ‘1.5% related spending, such as infrastructure, cybersecurity, and things like that. Also achievable by 2032’. The 3.5% plus 1.5% adds up to Trump’s 5%....

June 02, 2025

Europe: From peace project to peace spoiler – Biljana Vankovska

Talks about talks have now started between Russia and Ukraine. However, there is currently no end in sight to the Ukraine war. NATO and the EU are only seeking an end to war on their terms, which do not include agreements that guarantee security for all of Europe including Russia and the Russian speaking population in Ukraine.

In June NATO will have its summit in the Hague and Trump is demanding that European NATO members increase their military spending to 5% of GDP.

The US and Western Europe are preparing for more military conflict. This addiction to war stands in contrast to the rest of the world, which would prefer the global focus to be on increasing international cooperation.

In this short video, Professor Biljana Vankovska discusses with Oksana Boyko the prospects for peace in Ukraine and for Europe in general.

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May 28, 2025

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A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity

We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.

We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.

We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.

We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.

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