Readers of this newsletter are, or should be, aware that the U.S. engineered the 1953 coup removing the elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, because he rejected decades of British colonialism by nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. A C.I.A. memo from the time said the mission was “to effect the fall of the Mosaddeqh government; and to replace it with a pro-western government under the Shah’s leadership with [General] Zahedi as its prime minister.” It was only in 2013 that the Obama administration admitted the role of the CIA in the coup.
It’s notable that the U.S. supplied nuclear material and training to Iran in 1967 under the “atoms for peace” program.
And we recall the 290 people killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian civilian airliner in 1988, as a warning to Iran to end the war with Iraq.
🔶 THIS U.S./Israeli War on Iran has killed thousands in Iran, hundreds in Lebanon, led the forced removal of millions in only two weeks. STOP the War on Iran.
Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff who later criticized the effort to sell the U.S. war on Iraq based on the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, spoke on Democracy Now this week on the horrific implications of this war.
We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital. We have struck facilities in the nature of Iran’s oil capacity that is now putting black poison all over 10-plus million people. And we are essentially not bombing ballistic missile sites and bombing war materiel. We’re bombing people. We took a lesson from the IDF, if you will. We are bombing people, as, incidentally, they are still doing in Gaza and doing now in Lebanon to a fare-thee-well. These are all war crimes. And one wishes with fond hope that someday we might be called before the bar of justice and have to account for these war crimes.
March 8: 165 Pairs of Children’s’ Shoes – Stop the War On Iran
On International Women’s Day, Code Pink and other anti-war organizations, including World Can’t Wait, held a vigil to protest the killing of at least 165 civilians, mostly girls aged 7-12, at a girls’ school in Minab, Iran.
Alan Vinson of Bar Crawl Radio produced a short video, which includes an interview with William Hartung, political scientist, expert on U.S. military expenditures and opponent of war.
From Osyan, organization of Afghan and Iranian women — A message from the Women of Iran to the People of the World on March 8, 2026: Let Us Make Them Regret Bombing Iran!
Cruel Suffering for People of Cuba: A Civil Defense notice has been sent today by the Cuban Government to the entire population that the entire chain of oil supply to the country has been broken and there is a severe shortage of reserves. Therefore, the population has been told to be prepared for an imminent total energy collapse. The only vehicles that will be able to move are ambulances, fire trucks and military. Electricity will only be available to hospitals. Water will be very limited so people are advised to immediately fill up bathtubs, tanks, whatever vessels they have. Food availability and freezing will be very limited to hospitals, boarding schools and certain production areas. People are advised to preserve what food they can and ration out the usage of that food. Communications may be interrupted at times. They are being told to have candles and matches but be very careful in their use. Cuba needs our solidarity as its people are being plunged into horrible conditions by this inhumane U.S. blockade!
Sudan’s Struggle: notes from Carol Dudek
When the 2018-19 revolution for a democratic Sudan was gaining momentum, vicious government repression took the lives of hundreds of protestors, young and old. A small group of outraged friends shared updates about the crisis, and from our informal messages, “Sudan’s Struggle” arose.
I edit this monthly collection of articles, edited mainly from African and Middle Eastern media, that focus on the three-year war. It seeks to provide western readers the important events in Sudan, including some of its history, its daily atrocities, and its loss of tens of thousands of lives and almost all cultural institutions.
The Sudan war is sustained by unimpeded flow of weapons. It is a market, and Sudanese lives are collateral. Both warring sides buy Chinese drones, Israeli weapons: United Arab Emirates, Russia, Turkey, Serbia, Yemen and Iran, all complicit. Chad, South Sudan, Libya, CAR, Eritrea and Ethiopia move weapons. Most egregious is the UAE, the major provider of weapons to the RSF force whose war crimes and genocidal offensive are downplayed.
The U.S. sells weapons to UAE, as the RSF receives political and media legitimacy. The U.S., UK, EU and European countries call for ceasefires and civilian protection, but have not imposed sanctions on the Emirati or external war profiteers. UAE is a strategic partner of the West, buyer of arms, collaborator with Israel’s genocidal regime, conduit for intelligence, financial hub. It hosts U.S. military bases, participates in counter-terrorism operations, and invests in Western global capitalism.
This war is financed through extraction of natural resources under violence. Sudan’s significant oil reserves and vast gold mines have long attracted foreign powers. Russia’s 10% of Sudan gold reserves supports its war in Ukraine. Sudan’s economic structure mirrors colonial extraction: raw materials flow outward, violence is contained locally, value occurs elsewhere. Half the humble acacia tree’s gum arabic bought by European companies ends up, through coercion and armed control, in Coca-Cola.
>>Read more in Profit Over People: How the World Fuels Sudan’s War.