The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
Hello and welcome back to the countdown to the end of days and things seem to be shaping up nicely for the apocalypse.
The beast has risen, the seas are beginning to boil and the Doomsday Clock is inching ever closer to midnight.
The key players are all coming into position.
A certifiable psychopath, racist, liar and fraud is ensconced in the White House. A man so criminally stupid that he rejects global warming as “fake” but claims his hair is real.
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation poses an existential threat — but do today’s politicians have the capacity to deliver the more resilient and sustainable economics of tomorrow, wonders ALAN SIMPSON
RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today



