New York City “No King” demonstration, March 28. SLL photo: Stephen Millies
Eight million people demonstrated across the United States on March 28, against Trump in the third “No Kings Day.” There were protests in 3,300 communities in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
As the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran enters its second month, the conflict has proven so ruinous for the aggressors that dire alarm is being widely sounded. Embarrassing failure to subdue the Islamic Republic from the air has raised the prospect of a US ground operation of some kind, widely perceived as a suicide mission. Washington has also burned through over 850 Tomahawk missiles and 1,000 air-defense interceptors, at a rate the Pentagon finds “alarming”. In the process, Israel is rapidly approaching total disarmament.
The Intercept’s account of Trump’s Venezuela “success” exposes colonial features of the new order, but still stops short of naming the imperial body on the table. Beneath the language of reform and normalization lies a forced recalibration: oil, minerals, law, diplomacy, and public finance are being reorganized under duress while the Bolivarian state struggles to survive an open imperial assault. What looks from afar like accommodation is, in material reality, constrained sovereignty—a revolutionary process fighting to preserve continuity while governing with its constitutional president held captive in the belly of the empire. The task for us is to move from recognition to alignment by targeting the sanctions architecture, extractive restructuring, energy siege, and institutional machinery through which U.S. power seeks to turn coercion into permanent rule.
In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi said that a new reality is emerging, stressing that “the Axis of Resistance is far more powerful and far more well-coordinated than they had ever imagined.”
Seyed Marandi pointed not only to Iran’s resilience but also to the growing strength of allied fronts, from the Resistance in Lebanon “hitting the Israeli regime very hard,” to Yemen standing fully prepared, and the resistance in Iraq steadily pushing toward ending the occupation.
I have some very positive updates to share about the campaign to get Palantir out of the NHS.
At the weekend, the Financial Times reported that “UK ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir’s contract as they come under mounting pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems.”
Shadowy pro-Israel group Terror Alarm is crowdfunding a $1 million bounty for the capture of a well-known Iranian academic and media personality – and Twitter is refusing to remove it. But who are Terror Alarm? MintPress traces the company back to its source and exposes its role as a private security firm.
Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they’re not targeting countries directly involved in the US-Israeli war, and why they appear to communicate like Israelis.
Strangely, suspects arrested in the attacks have been released on bail.
On this episode of the MintCast, MintPress News director Mnar Adley breaks her silence after being targeted by a MAGA extremist, and dives deep into Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran with iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh who is based in London and Robert Inlakesh, MintPress staff writer and MidEast Geopolitical analyst.
Trump thought he could decapitate Iran’s leadership and the whole country would collapse. He was dead wrong. On Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran, the opposite has happened: Iran is more united than ever, US military bases across the Middle East are being systematically destroyed, and Israel’s air defense systems are running dry.
The White House is now claiming they achieved “regime change” – but that’s a lie. Iran’s new leadership is more anti-imperialist than ever, and they have a message for US troops: “Come closer and find out.”
Back in the day (the late first decade of this century) I was a keen follower of the “peak oil” debate, but as I did more and more research in the area and looked behind the repeated claims of the alarmists I saw a pattern of an inability to integrate new knowledge and a readiness to produce unlinked from reality fairy stories.
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson comes on to discuss Iran’s retaliation intensifying with coordinated attacks alongside Yemen as Trump panics his way into a ground operation. The war is reaching a point of no return, and we break it all down.
In this in-depth analysis, MintPress News founder Mnar Adley and journalist Robert Inlakesh break down why Israel’s Merkava tanks are being destroyed at an alarming rate, how Hezbollah has grown stronger despite 15 months of bombardment, and why Israeli military analysts admit they cannot win on the ground. The resistance stands. Israel’s occupation fails.
Pedro Monzón Barata frames the killing of journalists in Lebanon as a deliberate assault on truth, linking it to broader imperial war dynamics, emphasizing Cuba’s historic solidarity with resistance movements and its condemnation of these crimes.
On March 29, Dimitri Lascaris boarded an Iranian civilian vessel and toured the Strait of Hormuz for approximately one hour.
There, he observed and recorded the presence of nearly 100 oil tankers and cargo ships.
By all indications, commercial vessels continue to transit the Strait in significant numbers, but they now do so on terms dictated by the Islamic Republic.
Troops have arrived in the Middle East as the US starts its ground war against Iran in a massive escalation that has Iran’s retaliation surging. Yemen’s entrance in the war is sparking panic in the US-Israeli establishment and Danny Haiphong covers the latest developments as month 2 of the war begins.
No dawn for men: mass surveillance and mind control at the emergence of the 5th British Empire
“The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable…”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 822-826
In J.R.R Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings, the demonic dark lord Sauron (Sauron actually refers to himself in Trumpish fashion, as Tar-Mairon/”King Excellent”) manifests as malign intelligence, who manipulates men and events to advance his singular domination of Middle-Earth. In the books, Sauron did not stray beyond the walls of his citadel, Barad Dur, but instead used his missionaries, spies, servants and tools to corrupt people from afar.
On this episode of the MintCast, MintPress News director Mnar Adley breaks her silence after being targeted by a MAGA extremist, and dives deep into Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran with iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh who is based in London and Robert Inlakesh, MintPress staff writer and MidEast Geopolitical analyst.
Trump thought he could decapitate Iran’s leadership and the whole country would collapse. He was dead wrong.
On Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran, the opposite has happened: Iran is more united than ever, US military bases across the Middle East are being systematically destroyed, and Israel’s air defense systems are running dry.
The White House is now claiming they achieved “regime change” – but that’s a lie. Iran’s new leadership is more anti-imperialist than ever, and they have a message for US troops: “Come closer and find out.”
Right now, we’re raising $300,000 to support our journalists on the ground in conflict zones and abroad who are risking everything to bring you uncensored truth about Empire.
Photo of a BLU-91/B anti-tank mine posted by Iranian media. Source: IRIB News
Multiple news organizations have confirmed that U.S.-made anti-tank landmines were scattered across residential areas outside Shiraz, in southern Iran. At least one civilian has been confirmed killed, and others were reportedly injured
As the funeral processions of Al Mayadeen’s Fatima Ftouni, her brother, Mohammad, and Al-Manar’s Ali Sheaib move forward, mourners raise their voices against those who killed the journalists.
Cries of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” echo through the crowds, alongside the resounding chant of “Labbayka ya Hussein,” in a moment marked by grief, defiance, and solidarity.