In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. David Masciotra is the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am ...

You may have heard politicians in the U.S. and Europe, as well as liberal commentators state some version of the following: I’m opposed to Trump’s war on Iran. He ...

It was not just to avoid the tourist crowds, whose numbers were already building at nine in the morning along the Via Nazionale, that I took the stairs down. There were thirty-three steps, one for ...

It wasn’t long into Pete Hegseth’s Monday morning press briefing that I got the feeling he might reach through the screen, grab my throat, and declare war not just on Iran, but me too. To be fair to ...

Last June 2025 Trump bombed Iran. He said to eliminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons development. He then proclaimed he had achieved that goal. So what ...

An earlier version of this article was completed a day before the joint Israeli-American war against Iran. The gist of it examined the likely scenarios surrounding the effort to neutralize Iran, and ...

Four Montana-based Conservation Groups — Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Fish & Wildlife — sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ...

On October 16, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that as long as nuclear weapons exist, they should never be controlled by artificial intelligence (AI). Six ...

Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran have been among the most thoroughly bipartisan ...

On Iran’s eastern flank, far from the Gulf states now in the crosshairs, another conflict continues to grow. Pakistan has declared what it now calls an “open war” with Afghanistan’s Taliban ...

I often get that question. I can’t say I have a very good answer. Going back to the last bubbles, it would be difficult to identify any events in the world that precipitated the collapse of either the ...

Trump recently floated the idea of a "small" attack, with the Iranians responding symbolically by striking an empty U.S. base. But Tehran refused and made ...