Charlie Alford

Cuba and Iran: the duality of American power

Post author:Rares Cocilnau
Post published:10 July 2026
Post last modified:10 July 2026

The war on Iran was brought to a provisional close this month when Donald Trump finally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Palace of Versailles, on the sidelines of the G7. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the same document electronically from Tehran. The president has presented the deal as a win – in the narrow sense that he has stopped an active war spilling into global catastrophe and reopened a global oil chokepoint. Nevertheless, the terms of the deal tell a story at odds with the triumphalist narrative, since almost every substantive concession in the fourteen-point framework favours Iran.…

US troops avoiding justice yet another reason to give American military bases the boot

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:8 July 2026
Post last modified:8 July 2026

US troops are avoiding justice for alleged crimes committed in the UK. And that is one more thing you can add to the long list of reasons US military colonies need to be kicked out of Britain. The Week reported on 8 July that two US military personnel had escaped proper justice for crimes committed in the UK. This was due to them being court-martialed under US military law, not in British courts. The outlet reported: Four women and a 16-year-old girl accused US airman Hannes Marschalek of indecent exposure in 2022, while he was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk,…

American humiliation: Trump is erratic because he knows he’s lost the Iran war

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

US president Donald Trump is erratic at the best of times. But his current tendency to threaten Iran with annihilation and then claim peace is at hand five minutes later comes from an awareness that he has lost the Iran war. In truth, we have known this is an American humiliation for a long time. Iranian politics professor Hassan Ahmadian told Drop Site News on 12 June: The United States has hit the hard rock of a formidable force that stopped its aggression and they have to deal with it. President Trump realized that he cannot change the failure, the military…

Trump’s American empire: US operations are firing up across the continent

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:30 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

President Donald Trump’s failing war in Iran is grabbing most of the headlines. But Latin America is still central to current US colonial ambitions. American shadow war operations are popping up left, right and centre as the US seeks to dominate. Trump’s 2025 national security strategy said as much. The US wants to ensure: the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States. And that those pliable governments: cooperate with us against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations. Trump and his cronies want: a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile…