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@AleVelascoNYU: At this point, taking the actual operation, Trump’s press conference, and Delcy Rodriguez’s press conference into consideration, it seems fairly certain (though of course, unconfirmed) that Maduro wa...…

"Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking #Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/3/special_report_on_venezuela_us_kidnaps
#Trump #USpol #USforeignPolicy #régimeChangeWars #imperialBullying

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Trump Says “We Are Going to Run” Oil-Rich Nation

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco.

Democracy Now!

Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us

The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.

The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks

Podcast: Episode 1: With Us or Against Us

London Review of Books

"The explosion was so powerful that debris landed on the Yadegar-e-Emam Expressway, a few hundred feet from where the main gate had previously stood. [...] Cars had been mangled; buildings inside and outside the prison compound had been destroyed; windows along the block were blown out. The ground was littered with bodies."

Amir Ahmadi Arian on #Israel's bombing of #Iran's #EvinPrison

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/amir-ahmadi-arian/in-evin-prison

#politicalPrisoners #MiddleEast #régimeChangeWars @iran @israel @palestine

Amir Ahmadi Arian · In Evin Prison

London Review of Books

"Hardly anything could be more damaging to #Iran’s pro-democracy movements than making this unpopular, deposed monarch with ties to #Israel and U.S. neocons the face of opposition."

Alex Shams | "Our Man for Tehran"

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/our-man-for-tehran/

#RezaPahlavi #régimeChange #régimeChangeWars #MiddleEast #USMiddleEastPolicy #USforeignPolicy @iran @israel @palestine

Bombs Will Never Liberate Iran: Persis Karim and Manijeh Moradian in Conversation | Speaking Out OF Place

Israel’s Forever Wars w/ Mouin Rabbani

Featuring Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s war on Iran, possible direct US intervention, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The Dig

Behind the News with Doug Henwood | Two perspectives on #Israel’s war on #Iran: Mouin Rabbani on the regional/global context and Joel Schalit on Israeli society and politics

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-june-19-2025/

#USpol #IsraeliPolitics #MiddleEast #régimeChangeWars #geopolitics @iran @israel @palestine @geopolitics

Israel’s war on Iran: two perspectives | KPFA

Two perspectives on Israel’s war on Iran: Mouin Rabbani on the regional/global context and Joel Schalit on Israeli society and politics

KPFA

"#Israel’s codename for the attack was #OperationRisingLion, a pointed reference to the pre-1979 Iranian national flag, a lion before a rising sun. Israel and the US seem to hope that they can shatter the Iranian state and induce civil unrest. This is an attempt at regime change, or regime destruction, poorly disguised as an anti-nuclear operation."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/operation-rising-lion

#Iran #MiddleEast #USpol #régimeChangeWars @iran @palestine @israel

Tom Stevenson | Operation Rising Lion

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference to...

LRB Blog

Wednesday June 18 2pm ET

#Jadaliyya Long Form pod ep 9 | Islamophobia, the West, and Genocide

"Hatem Bazian addresses the historical trajectory of #Islamophobia and its significance in understanding geopolitical transformation in the post-Cold War world."

Hosts: Bassam Haddad, Mouin Rabbani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSeyGER26Sk

#colonialViolence #orientalism #régimeChangeWars #USforeignPolicy #MiddleEast #USMiddleEastPolicy #Palestine #Israel #geopolitics @geopolitics @palestine @israel @iran

Islamophobia, the West, and Genocide With Hatem Bazian

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