NEW: An open letter in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners drew vitriolic condemnation from parts of the anti-imperialist left — but the criticisms are short-sighted and misplaced, argues Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a former political prisoner in Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
The Attacks on an Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Misguided
Why should the victims of massacres be expected to stand beside their executioners in the name of anti-imperial resistance?
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Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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No depths to which Prashad can sink at this point in the defense of regimes that have killed thousands but it’s telling how he acts to try and delegitimize the letter, knowing it could have sway—classic tactic in the defense of regimes with questionable human rights records
New Bloom@newbloommag.net · 2mo ago"Prashad Again Leaps to Defense of Mass Murderers in Effort to Delegitimize Open Letter on Iranian Political Prisoners" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
"Prashad Again Leaps to Defense of Mass Murderers in Effort to Delegitimize Open Letter on Iranian Political Prisoners" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Prashad Again Leaps to Defense of Mass Murderers in Effort to Delegitimize Open Letter on Iranian Political Prisoners | New Bloom Magazine
In a typical course of action, Vijay Prashad has hit out at a letter by a number of prominent left intellectuals in The Guardian criticizing both the Iranian government and the forces of Western…
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Anti-imperialism should mean solidarity with peoples, not loyalty to anti-Western states. @KamranMatin writes on how the Iran war has exposed the contradictions of a left that condemns U.S.-Israeli aggression while excusing the Islamic Republic’s repression. theamargi.com/posts/the-ir...
The Iran war and the contradictions of anti-imperialism
The Iran war has exposed deep divisions on the global left. A small minority condemns both the U.S.-Israeli assault as an act of imperial aggression and the Iranian state as a repressive capitalist…
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getting back to gay porn titles I see
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5mo agoNBC News reports the Trump Administration is considering replacing the "Operation Epic Fury" name given for operations in Iran with "Operation Sledgehammer" if the ceasefire collapses and combat operations resume. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
For example, this flew under the radar at the time but the reason American mines ended up in a Iranian village was because we were trying to prevent the movement of mobile launchers rather than try and take them out directly
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 7mo agoThe US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Iran prepped for the war they're actually fighting. the U.S. opened hostilities expecting a mirror of what happened in Venezuela and have no idea what to do now.
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 5mo agoseems pretty clear folks in the military and maybe the admin are extremely alarmed about potential American military escalation in Hormuz and how it might go www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
An amazing long read by Matt Broomfield about the #Kurds from #Iran, based in Kurdistan in Iraq, whom Israel/US try to exploit in their war against Iran. Kurdish leaders know that any further escalation will hurt them the most. They wage their own struggle. www.truthdig.com/articles/kur...
The Kurds in the Crossfire of the U.S.-Israeli War Against Iran
The Kurds are on the front lines of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. After their betrayal in Syria, can they survive another fight?
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Since March 18, 2026, Iranian authorities have executed at least 28 people on politically motivated charges. Scores of imprisoned protesters remain at risk of arbitrary and secret executions. Learn more:
Seeing right-wingers attack him is annoying but the idea that anybody left of Pinochet would ever go to bat for Hasan Piker is laughable at best. Dude is a passionate Putin supporter and genocide fanatic. His bleating in support of the Russian genocide of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians should
probably give folks pause about listening to anything he says. But it won't. Just like it didn't with Glenn Greenwald or Aaron Mate or Max Blumenthal or Rania Khalek or Tulsi Gabbard or Butter Goblin or any of the other scumbag fascists with a red flag and a shit-eating grifter grin.
The UAE, like Israel, is a state that sees itself as outside the rules and also would love a destabilizing war against Iran- as long as the US is the one doing most of the fighting.
Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose
Earlier this week Israel carried out a “triple tap,” killing three medical workers and wounding six in Lebanon. Triple tap strikes were/are not even standard practice of the Russians, who were notorious for perfecting the “double tap” strike in Syria and then adopting the practice in Ukraine. (1)
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enem...
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The US-Iran ceasefire brought a pause for some. For Iranian Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan, it did not. As strikes resumed, Kurdish camps and families remained exposed to pressure, displacement and loss. ✍️ Asso Hassan Zadeh
A ceasefire that leaves Iranian Kurds behind
Iranian Kurdish groups face renewed strikes and displacement despite the US-Iran ceasefire, exposing selective de-escalation as Tehran intensifies pressure on Kurdish parties and civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.
Far-right troll account followed by JD Vance on X unmasked
“HowlingMutant,” who jokes about rape and the Holocaust, is Alexander Norden of New York City
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2/ Expert backgrounder on the PrSM and U.S. weapons review: www.justsecurity.org/135490/preci... Hegseth's Defense Department's flat denial from March 31 (now appears to be provably false)⤵️
3/ BBC also fact checked the DoD's denial: Six experts "all commented independently ... citing the missile's visual features, the way it exploded, its trajectory and the number of strikes in the area." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Experts dispute US account of deadly Lamerd sports hall strike in Iran
Six weapons experts have contested the US claim that video evidence suggests an Iranian missile could have hit the hall.
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The Pentagon suggested Iran was responsible. But new evidence further shows tit were U.S. PrSMs (which blast thousands of tungsten pellets outwards) that killed 21 civilians in Lamerd, Iran, including a toddler and several children. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...
New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran
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No matter what some people on here seem to think, it is in fact entirely possible to oppose all US and Israeli military actions in Iran, without pretending that this somehow makes the Iranian government into the good guys. They did in fact murder tens of thousands of innocent civilian protesters.
How is a video that has Judaism as Baal, showing a literal blood libel, and with a representation of Orthodox Jews buying the U.S. President antisemitic, they ask?
Sam Handwhich@mjrtom05.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow is it anti-Semitic?
People in Iran have lived under digital darkness for 1000 hours. Access to the internet is a basic human right and indispensable in times of conflict. Authorities must immediately restore internet access.
