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By entering the war, the US is making a new nuclear agreement with Iran a distant prospect. […]This military escalation, accompanied by mutual threats, puts an end, for the time being, to new diplomatic initiatives aimed at bringing Iran's nuclear program back under international control....

Under international law, states are fundamentally obliged to treat each other peacefully. The legal basis for this can be found in the Charter of the United Nations (UN). UN members may not simply attack other UN members militarily. There is only one exception to this prohibition of force: the right to self-defense....

“Imagine what will happen when the war comes and no one goes” (Carl Sandburg). When will the peoples of the world finally rise up against the folly of their rulers? This question applies not only to totalitarian systems, but also to the self-appointed political ruling elites in indirect (parliamentary) democracies, which are nothing more than spectator democracies after election night....

Israel is plunging into a war with Iran under flimsy pretexts, and its Western allies are guilty of complicity...Now Israel, which has been engaged in a war of self-defense all over the world for decades, has escalated its latent war of assassinations, sabotage, and military strikes wherever they may be into an open war against Iran....

The humanitarian situation there is contrary to international law, with Israel refusing to allow aid supplies to enter for months. The current strike against Iran can be seen as an attempt to complete or at least advance a reorganization of the Middle East in Israel's interests....

Looking at Israel, one can be amazed at how infallible and confident of victory this country considers itself to be. Not because of Iran's nuclear program or Palestinian resistance, but because of the blind, arrogant hubris that has gripped an entire nation....

Israel deployed 200 fighter jets against 100 targets, destroying Iran's defensive and offensive capabilities, attacking sites involved in the nuclear program, and killing numerous nuclear scientists. This destroyed key capabilities of Iran....

Israel has launched an unprovoked attack on the people of Iran...

The Ultimate Environmental Disasters Are Still Siloed. See TomDispatch...

“Studies on the history of the German-Soviet war all too often ignore the simple fact that (!) the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, was primarily motivated by economic objectives, namely to conquer ‘living space in the East,’” writes historian Rolf-Dieter Müller. Joseph Goebbels declared that it was a “war for grain and bread, for a fully stocked breakfast, lunch, and dinner"...