Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The Qatar-U.S. Relationship. Is America Sleeping with the Enemy?

 

Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The Qatar-U.S. Relationship. Is America Sleeping with the Enemy? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky In recent developments, in response to Trump’s June 22, 2025 attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran’s Armed Forces responded by attacking the Al Udeid Air Force base in Qatar which is the largest US Air Force base in the Middle East.  Read here

Has Iran’s Fate Been Sealed? By David Skripac Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia will not lift a finger to help Iran militarily. Russia has always been Iran’s military enemy. That hasn’t changed. Moreover, most of Russia’s oligarchs have Israeli citizenships. And let’s not forget that, as recently as 2010, President Putin imposed sanctions against Iran on behalf of Israel. Read here

Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer”: Did America Really Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Facilities? By Drago Bosnic The US claims that the bombers were preceded by unnamed “fourth and fifth generation American fighter aircraft to preempt any surface-to-air defensive fire”. The Pentagon insists that Iranian air defenses did not engage USAF jets, supposedly “due to damage caused by previous Israeli attacks.” Read here

Open Letter to the Swiss Federal Council: Neutrality – Switzerland’s Failure to Condemn Israel’s Attack on Iran By Swiss Movement for Neutrality and Peter Koenig The EDA (Swiss Foreign Ministry) writes that it condemns “any use of force that violates the Charter of the United Nations and international law” and calls for “a return to the path of dialogue.” However, there is no clear explicit condemnation of Israel’s war of aggression against Iran on the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s website. Read here

How the U.S. and Israel Used Director General Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules—to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran, despite his agency’s own conclusion that Iran had no nuclear weapons program. Read here

The Reckless Gamble: How Ignoring Gangland Logic Could Ignite a Catastrophic War in the Middle East. Prof. Ruel F. Pepa By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa In the brutal and unforgiving world of gangland warfare, a stark and time-tested principle governs the rules of engagement: when you strike an enemy, you do so with such overwhelming force that they are left maimed, crippled, or entirely unable to retaliate. Read here

Deciphering the Aftermath of Trump’s Strikes on Iran. The Real Question: “Did This Work”? By Miguel Santos García An Iranian state television reporter embedded near the Fordow nuclear facility claims the much-hyped US attack amounted to a nothingburger. The Fordow facility is buried deep underground, and while the GBU-57 MOP is designed for such targets, its effectiveness remains uncertain. Read here