Friday, 20 June 2025 — MROnline
Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Climate and Capitalism
Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate
| “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster, We’re actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.”—study co-author Zeke Hausfather |
At current emission levels, a 1.5°C global temperature increase will be unavoidable in a little more than three years, and 1.6°C or 1.7°C could be exceeded within nine years.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
In a formal letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, condemned the Israeli strike on the Arak heavy water reactor, calling it a blatant violation of international law.
Eslami cited breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the IAEA Statute, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He urged Grossi to break his silence: “You must condemn this Israeli aggression against our peaceful nuclear facilities.”
Warning of consequences, Eslami added, “We will take action to defend our rights and will seek legal recourse—particularly in light of Your Excellency’s inaction.”
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — The Cradle
Pakistan reveals that Israeli drone operators attempted to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities during the India-Pakistan crisis in May. This is a major reason why Islamabad is throwing its full weight behind Tehran in the Israel-Iran war.
Photo Credit: The CradleDespite Islamabad’s official denials of providing military or material support to Iran in its confrontation with Israel, recent developments suggest a dramatic shift in regional alignments. Today, Pakistan and China appear to be coordinating closely with Tehran, offering tangible strategic advantages as Tel Aviv escalates its hostilities.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — NetPol
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Thursday, 19 June 2025 — MintPress News
MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi from Tehran who reveals the reality of Israel’s attacks on Iran, an alleged targeted airstrike against him, Western media propaganda, and the growing anti-colonial resistance movement across the Middle East.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Ali Larijani, Senior Political Advisor to Sayyed Khamenei, vowed, “We will subject IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to accountability after the war ends.”
His comments follow earlier remarks by the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, who sharply criticized IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, accusing him of fueling a Western-led campaign of aggression through “biased” nuclear oversight.
Baghaei asserted that Grossi’s reports were weaponized by the E3 and the US to justify an illegal act of war by a “genocidal, warmongering regime.”
Larijani also stated that “the sixth round of talks was supposed to take place, but Trump pulled a trick in coordination with Israel,” affirming that while Tehran does not seek war, the country is facing a critical moment that demands firmness and resilience.
He called for resistance against external aggression, stating, “We must resist, confront the aggressors, and punish them.”
3 June 2025 — Declassified UK
Motor industry tycoon Trevor Chinn (centre) is a pro-Israel advocate. (Photo: Fiona Hanson / Alamy)
Britain’s Foreign Office met privately with a pro-Israel lobbyist to discuss arms exports to Tel Aviv, documents obtained by Declassified reveal.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — The Tricontinental
Peter Mulindwa (Uganda), Untitled, 1981.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza to the war in Sudan and the unreported chaotic violence in and around Myanmar. These conflicts seem interminable and might even confuse the casual observer who does not follow them closely.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — MintPress News
He likes to keep a low profile. But Sir Trevor Chinn is one of the most powerful men in British politics.
The retired businessman has donated millions to politicians, facilitated Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rise to power, helped destroy the movement around Jeremy Corbyn, and, above all, has made sure that both major parties support Israel and its expansionist project in the Middle East.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of “defensive” move.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi discusses the US preparations to enter the war directly, and Iran’s preparations to fight the US. Trump will only accept Iran’s surrender, yet he does not appear to have the means to achieve this objective. What will happen if US strikes are ineffective and US military assets in the region are attacked? The only path forward now is reckless escalation.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Israel’s strike on Iran has led to a massive retaliation, Operation True Promise 3, which now has Trump scrambling to war. Mohammad Marandi, Lowkey, and Ali Abunimah join the show for a break down of what’s happening to the US-backed colony and the consequences the coming collapse of Israel is having on the region and the world.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 —
A family in Gaza, mourning another loss
How Netanyahu’s War on Iran Provides Cover for Gaza’s Final Solution.
The sirens wail across Haifa and Tel Aviv as Iranian missiles arc through the sky, and suddenly the world discovers its capacity for horror again, CNN anchors breathlessly counting each projectile while their cameras capture the dust clouds rising from Israeli cities. But three hundred miles south, in the killing fields that Gaza has become, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s soldiers methodically execute Palestinians who approached their food distribution sites this morning, adding three hundred fresh corpses to the mountain of bodies that now numbers not in the tens of thousands as official counts claim, but in the hundreds of thousands, entire bloodlines erased from existence while the world debates the trajectory of Iranian missiles.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Indian Punchline
Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility from where, according to Iranian reports, ‘plumes of smoke were rising’, June 17, 2025
Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the Iron Dome has been breached; iv) and, Israel’s air dominance is a figment of imagination.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
As the U.S. and Israel launched a violent campaign against Iran and its people, Homayoun Sameh, the Jewish member of Iran’s parliament, spoke out against the Zionist escalation. Sameh has consistently been a strong supporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Palestinian resistance for his entire time in parliament. Iran is one of the few countries on the planet with a constitution that requires Jewish representation in its central legislative body.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Global Delinquents
On June 14th, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer bragged he was moving the country’s military assets and fighter jets to West Asia, to provide “contingency support in the region” in response to Iran’s counterattack on the Zionist entity. Asked by Sky News if he ruled out direct military involvement, he evasively responded, “I’m not getting into that.” He also refused to clarify whether Tel Aviv gave London any advance warning of its criminal, unprovoked strike on Tehran a day prior:
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Vanessa Beeley
Food and fuel crisis in the occupied territories
🔹 Following Iran’s massive missile attack on the occupied territories, the Israeli economy has faced an unprecedented crisis, from the closure of refineries and ports to the paralysis of airports and infrastructure.
🔹 Experts believe that continuing this trend will push the Israeli economy into a stage of structural collapse.
🔹 The Haifa Refinery, Israel’s largest oil refinery with a capacity of 200,000 barrels, was among the targets and has been taken out of production.
🔹 The destruction of three oil terminals in the ports of Haifa, Ashkelon, and Eilat, along with the shutdown of two major refineries, has effectively disabled Israel’s energy backbone.
🔹 Port activity has reached zero, airports have been closed, and all export and import logistics systems are in lockdown. In this situation, even food and fuel imports are facing a crisis.
@TasnimNews
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Samuel Geddes argues that Netanyahu has led “Israel” into a war it cannot win; as Iranian missiles continue to rain down, the countdown to “Israel’s” military and economic collapse has begun.
Netanyahu has put “Israel” in an impossible position that it cannot sustain, even with indefinite American re-supply.
The New Dark Age 