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Having failed to achieve their goals against Iran, the U.S. and Israel will attempt a second military attack

The U.S. and Israel failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program or achieve regime change in the first round of attacks. It is only a question of time before they attempt a second. Whether, and when, they will achieve this depends not only on Iran’s resistance but also on the solidarity and support in other countries against the U.S. and Israel. It is therefore vital that the stakes involved are understood.

The U.S. support for Israeli domination of West Asia

In their actions in Gaza and West Asia, Israel and the U.S. have shown the world their real character and plans for the region, in open contempt for the overwhelming majority of world opinion as evidenced by votes in the UN, international opinion polls, and massive international protests. Israel has carried out an openly genocidal attempt to destroy Gaza’s society, with fascist slaughter of children, women, and anyone else it chooses. These Israeli public massacres were enabled by U.S. military support.

The U.S. plan is that the tiny Israeli state—of less than 10 million, widely delegitimized around the world, and which rules by fascist methods— should be dominant in a West Asian and North African region of almost 600 million people. To achieve this, the U.S. and its Israeli client regime aims not only to massacre Palestinians but to fragment an increasing number of states in the region as carried out against Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Given Iran’s large size and population of over 90 million, Israel and the U.S. would also like to achieve this with Iran. Iran is also seen by both the U.S. and Israel as an important part of the BRICS alliance in West Asia — which the U.S. wants to weaken or demolish....

July 15, 2025

The US makes most compelling case for nuclear proliferation

By Vijay Prashad & Dae-Han Song

The atomic bomb has been humanity’s most dangerous creation; that the United States government used the atom bomb twice against Japan’s civilians in August 1945 can neither be forgiven nor forgotten. It is fitting that one of the first acts of the United Nations in January 1946 was establishing a commission to deal with the “Problems Raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy”. Yet, the resolution did not ban atomic weapons but simply sought to study its “problems”. Even after the grotesque demonstration in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States government was reluctant to permit the abolition of nuclear bombs. Having opened the doorway to Hell, there was no real desire to close it.

Creating the first major United Nations treaty to tackle atomic weapons took two decades. More importantly, the treaty did not ban nuclear weapons. While preventing further proliferation, it, nonetheless, allowed the then-nuclear powers – the United States (1945), the Soviet Union (1949), the United Kingdom (1952), France (1960), and China (1964) – to keep their nuclear arsenal. When the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came into force in 1968, Israel likely had nuclear weapons (1967). Thereafter, despite the NPT, India (1974), Pakistan (1998), and North Korea (2006) developed and tested nuclear weapons. Of all these countries, only North Korea has been pressured to de-nuclearize by the United States and its allies. If it has refused, it is because denuclearizing would lead to its annihilation....

July 14, 2025

US out of Korea!

The Korean War was halted in 1953, not with a peace treaty as most wars end, but with only a ceasefire agreement. Since then the US has not been prepared to conclude a peace treaty and that is still the case.

In June 2018 US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. This was the first time a US president had met a North Korean leader. The meeting generated hope in the Korean Peninsula that this would lead towards a peace treaty. But, in February 2019, Trump walked away from the talks with no peace deal agreed.

The US based organisation Nodutdol started its “US out of Korea” campaign in 2024. This July (2025) it is involved in organising a “People’s Summit for Korea” in New York.

In this video, Jeeho Cha from Nodutdol explains why a peace agreement is needed in Korea, the role the US plays and why the US should withdraw its troops from Korea.

Jeeho Cha is an organizer with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, which is an organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades fighting for Korea’s national liberation and a world free of US imperialism.

Nodutdol Social Media: @nodutdol on Instagram and X
Nodutdol Website: nodutdol.orgUS out of Korea Campaign Website: usoutofkorea.org
People’s Summit for Korea Website: https://peoplessummitforkorea.org/...

July 08, 2025

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s hallucinations

By Vijay Prashad

By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was about money. In fact, the final communiqué was perhaps the shortest of any NATO meeting – only five points, two about money and one to thank the Netherlands for hosting the summit. The Hague Declaration was only 427 words, whereas in the previous year, the Washington Declaration was 5,400 words and ran to 44 paragraphs. This time, there was not the granular detail about this or that threat, nor the long and detailed assessments of the war in Ukraine and how NATO supports that war without limit (“Ukraine’s future is in NATO”, the alliance said in 2024, a position no longer repeated in the brief statement of 2025). It was clear that the United States simply did not want to permit a laundry list of NATO’s obsessions. It was instead the US obsession that prevailed: that Europe increase its military spending to compensate for the US protective shield around the continent.

Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves....

July 04, 2025

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

No Cold War statement

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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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