Israel Says Preparing For Escalation With Iran, Didn't Know Deal Was Close: 'Series Of Targets Ready'

Japan Marks Hiroshima Anniversary Without Naming US, While Shaming Russia Russia is not happy with Japan's statements regarding the anniversary of the US military's dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII. Thursday marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing which obliterated the densely-populated industrial city. The Kremlin is accusing Japanese officials of intentionally dropping any mention of just who dropped the nuke which ultimately killed some 140,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians. The city's mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony held at the center of where the...

Iran on Tuesday appointed a former high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander as the new secretary of its Supreme National Security Council (SNRC) after Israel killed Ali Larijani, the country’s previous national security chief. According to Iran’s PressTV, Larijani’s replacement, Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, served in the IRGC during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, […]

He Calls It Socialism; Marx Called It Communism's Last Stage Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, On Theo Von's podcast, Zohran Mamdani defined socialism as the government delivering whatever you need for a dignified life. That is Marx's rule for communism's last stage - and New York is already getting the invoice. Von asked him to define socialism. Mamdani said socialism means you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life, and that it is the government's job to deliver on that. Housing. Childcare. Transit. The things, he said, that...