NATO is the core military alliance of the European and North American imperialist states structured around the predominance – increasingly brashly and recklessly asserted – of the US. Smaller direct alliances in the Pacific with Japan and S Korea, and AUKUS complement it, with Israel as a West Asian frontier state. Countries seeking to join it are aiming to become junior members of the global predators’ club.
A US escalation of its war on Iran carries the threat of world recession, climate catastrophes and horrendous levels of fatalities and suffering. The anti-war movement must be preparing to oppose any escalation and work to achieve a wider mobilisation.
Despite claims otherwise, the second Trump presidency does not signal a US pullback into the western hemisphere.
There is no change in US goals.
Critical review of a book that is, above all, a defence of US foreign policy, and a justification of measures against the civilian populations of the countries targeted by the sanctions of the US and its allies.
All the evidence on sanctions upon Iran demonstrate that women suffer an increased burden in this invisible war. Those who claim to aid Iranian women by supporting sanctions are acting as oppressors of Iranian women.
The world has entered its greatest general crisis since World War Two.
It is vital that socialists build the broadest united fronts against the US war drive and climate breakdown as part of the struggle against all forms of exploitation and oppression.
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