Western countries, including  Australia and New Zealand, were quick to line up to support Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli blitzkrieg on the Islamic Republic of Iran. They were effectively throwing international law into a cauldron of blood and mayhem.  These same Western powers – and the Gulf Arab states that stand with them – may soon live to regret it.

When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed over 150 children this week in an elementary school in Minab in Southern Iran it took me back to a wonderful day I spent in Isfahan in 2018. I met lots of Iranian school children and their teachers that day. They were keen to practise their English and ask lots of questions. I want to share that day with you because it was filled with hope, with promise for a better world.  

Cuba believes a genuine “third way” can only exist if it defends the economic sovereignty of states against coercion. For more than sixty years, our country has been subjected to a policy explicitly designed to generate material hardship in order to force political change. The issue therefore is not ideological but systemic: no nation can claim strategic autonomy while tolerating that another punishes third countries for lawful trade.

If Israel and the US attack Iran, the cosy worlds of Europe, Australia and New Zealand could be swept up in an economic catastrophe. Should the Iranians survive a terrifying onslaught, they have vowed to strike back in a way that could crash the global economy.  How they could quite possibly do this is the topic of this article.

It’s time to stop this Medieval siege. UN Security Council Resolution 2397 has already killed thousands of North Korean civilians. As long as it remains in force, hundreds of thousands of innocent people remain at risk in a country that is suffering dire food insecurity. New Zealand, Australia and the US have played a major role in inflicting foreseeable lethal consequences on North Korean civilians. Sanctions against the North’s weapons programme have achieved nothing but human misery.

Trump’s rough woo-ing of Canada to become the 51st state, and his threat to use military force to seize both Greenland and the Canal, speak to a back-to-basics focus for American imperialism – a shift in US policy that will bring it closer to its core strategic interests

As protests unfold in Iran, Israeli and US figures openly talk of regime collapse. Foreign interference risks worsening violence and derailing change from within. What’s really going on?

The leading political and military leaders in Europe are sounding the alarm: major war is coming to Europe; millions of soldiers could be fighting in the cities and plains of the continent within five years as a violent, expansionist Russia seeks to re-establish its empire. What is really happening?