Inderjeet Parmar

An exclusive poll for The i Paper shows almost half of responders are against air strikes

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Israel as Proxy, Not Puppet Master: How US Imperial Logic Drives the Alliance – Not the Lobby This article is co-authored by Inderjeet Parmar and Bamo Nouri The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026 – dubbed Operation Epic Fury by the United States and Operation Roaring Lion by...

theamargi.com/posts/israel... Claims that Israel drives US policy divorce its role from imperial logic. Washington instrumentalises the alliance; Israel advances objectives as a dependent proxy, but the senior partner calls the shots, retaining ultimate control even as allies nudge trajectories.

Excuse me?

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
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White House claim of imminent Iranian threat undercut in Hill briefings There could be more US casualties as part of the military operations against Iran, President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday. Three American troops have been killed so far, according to the US milita...

Congressional briefings undercut White House claim about Iran threat

Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff that Iran was not planning to strike US forces unless Israel attacked Iran first, undercutting the administration’s claim of an imminent threat as a reason to launch strikes.

Britain’s long history of spying on Iran The UK has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists.

The UK has for decades tried to subvert Iran’s government.

GCHQ’s top secret JTRIG project targeted the “general population” of Iran during 2009-11, and involved “discrediting the Iranian leadership and its nuclear programme”.

www.declassifieduk.org/britains-lon...

Let’s just see how the BBC is framing this war of aggression, shall we?

Latest piece in @thewire.in alongside the great @usempire.bsky.social :

US-Israeli strikes on Iran didn’t just escalate a conflict - they exposed the bipartisan machinery of American primacy and the ease with which diplomacy is sidelined in favour of military spectacle.

THIS.

Today's Strikes on Iran Expose the Bipartisan Face of American Primacy – and May Hasten Its Decline The US and the Western world carried out the appearance of dialogue with Iran, when the aim was always to enforce regime change – a goal expressed openly before and after these inevitable military att...

thewire.in/world/todays... - America First exposed as con for war and empire programme - Trumps days are numbered amid domestic pogroms mass resistance and eroding Maga base

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life.

Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.

Malcolm X, 61 Years On: The Assassinations of the 1960s, COINTELPRO, and the Vindication of His Critique As we mark 61 years since Malcolm's assassination, his legacy endures as urgent diagnosis. The empire persists, its contradictions mounting amid multipolar challenges from the Global South, climate co...

thewire.in/world/malcol... Imperium integrating enough voices to sustain legitimacy, crushing those expose racial-imperial core. Malcolm, King, Panthers, progressive Kennedys threatened that balance. Their elimination, followed by COINTELPRO, entrenched a more militarised, unequal order.

A woman holds an open book, reading in front of a brick wall.

It's the best time of the month: Feb updates are out now! 🎉

Inc :
📚 The latest in IR: Winter book roundup
🌟 Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture
📝 The latest research from Review of International Studies

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@julietdryden.bsky.social

Rainbow Interrupted: Jesse Jackson Between Martin Luther King’s Radical Turn and Barack Obama’s Managerial Ascent Jackson's legacy is not one of triumph or failure, but of persistent contradiction – a reminder that courage without structural rupture risks absorption into the very hegemony it seeks to overthrow.

thewire.in/rights/rainb... - ackson's legacy is not one of triumph or failure, but of persistent contradiction – a reminder that courage without structural rupture risks absorption into the very hegemony it seeks to overthrow.

Good Cop Rubio, Bad Cop Vance as US Lures Europe With Renewed 'Civilisational Crusade' A year after J.D. Vance scolded Europe, Marco Rubio has recast Trump’s message as partnership, urging a united West to reclaim industrial might and compete aggressively for markets and minerals across...

thewire.in/world/good-c... year after J.D. Vance scolded Europe, Marco Rubio has recast Trump’s message as partnership, urging a united West to reclaim industrial might and compete aggressively for markets and minerals across the Global South.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Trump is the Dark Shadow of US Exceptionalism, Not its Subversion Trump as the dark shadow of exceptionalism is not the end of the story but a chapter in a longer reckoning. The US was never purely the shining city; it was always also the empire that built and defen...

thewire.in/world/trump-... Trump as the dark shadow of exceptionalism is not the end of the story but a chapter in a longer reckoning. The US was never purely the shining city; it was always also the empire that built and defended it through coercion and exclusion.

Frederick Douglass born this day in 1818 - m.thewire.in/article/book... rose up and out of enslavement and made a profound contribution to human dignity freedom and political philosophy

Two panel cartoon. How it started: masked man beating Police Officer at the Capitol. How it’s going: identical masked man with ICE badge beating Statue of Liberty.

Remove ICE and CBP funding until real changes are made.
With apologies, I can’t find the artist to credit.

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

All 6 Palestine Action activists in the Elbit Systems break-in have been found not guilty on all charges. This action was one of the main 'reasons' the govt. proscribed PA as a terrorist organisation. Nearly 3000 people have been arrested for showing support. There must be pardons and compensation.

Furious Minds, Fractured Hegemony: Mapping the Intellectual Networks Behind Trump’s New Right Laura Field's Furious Minds is a pathbreaking chronicle of the New Right's intellectual and political machinery, unmasking how elite networks propel Trumpism from X to White House tenure.

thewire.in/books/furiou... - Laura Field's Furious Minds is a pathbreaking chronicle of the New Right's intellectual and political machinery, unmasking how elite networks propel Trumpism from X to White House tenure.

The Epstein case reflects systemic issues within the American elite. Despite clear evidence, the perpetrators will probably never be charged. They engage in exploitative practices without consequence.The American oligarchy has amassed its wealth through parasitism

Foreign Office met pro-Israel lobbyist to discuss arms exports Exclusive: Pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn offered top diplomat ‘recommendations’ on Middle East policy.

UK diplomat Christian Turner has taken up his new role as British ambassador to the US.

In 2024, he held a meeting with pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn that we discovered was focused on arms exports to Israel.

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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”
#EpsteinFiles