The Post-Partisan Emporium

  UNITED AGAINST NUCLEAR IRAN: THE SHADOWY, INTELLIGENCE-LINKED GROUP DRIVING THE US TOWARDS WAR WITH IRAN ALAN MACLEOD Most of the world has watched the Israeli assault on Gaza in horror. As tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced, tens of millions of people around the world have poured onto the streets to demand an end to the violence. But a few select others have taken to the pages of our most influential media to demand an escalation of the violence and that the United States help Israel strike not just Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon but Iran as well. “I might have once favored a cease-fire with Hamas, but not now,”  wrote  Bush-era diplomat Dennis Ross in The New York Times, explaining that “if Hamas is perceived as winning, it will validate the group’s ideology of rejection, give leverage and momentum to Iran and its collaborators and put [our] own governments on the defensive.” In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 assault, arch-neoconservative official ...

  The US and UK bomb Yemen to save shipping lanes and genocide This was an incredible act of humanitarianism LAURA K Due to widespread concern that South Africa was going to stop a genocide at the International Court of Justice, the world’s best imperialists, the US and UK, have come to the rescue. As lawyers spelled out the extent of Israel’s war crimes in court, our leaders said: “Oh, you like war crimes? We have plenty more where they come from. We literally invented war crimes!” and they started bombing the shit out of Yemen to create a massive diversion. You can forgive my excitement! One political commentator, who is even better at bullshit than me, explained the Houthis pose a grave threat to working class sailors by not sinking a single vessel and promising to stop when Israel’s genocide stops. In other words, if you don’t support war against one of the most impoverished nations on earth, it’s because you hate working class people! I’m confused by this logic because I suppo...