https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article15906.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article15906.html 2025-06-21T16:34:00Z text/html en Tariq Ali <p>17 June 2025 <br class='autobr' /> The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran over its nuclear programme, the Israeli regime took advantage of an interval to bomb Tehran, assassinating leading scientists, a senior general and other officials, some of them engaged in the talks. After a few unconvincing denials, Trump admitted that the US had been informed of (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique124.html" rel="directory">2025</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article520.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article520.html 2008-01-26T20:53:32Z text/html en Tariq Ali <p>A multidimensional charade is taking place in Pakistan, and it is not an edifying sight. Pervez Musharraf has discarded his uniform and is trying to cling to power, whatever the cost. <br class='autobr' /> So far it has been high: the dismissal of the Supreme Court judges and their replacement by stooges; police brutality against a strong lawyers' movement protesting the military assault on the judiciary; and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan as part of an ill-judged deal (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique47.html" rel="directory">January 26, 2008</a>