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IRANIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINAB MARTYRS Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi interviews Iranian children attending a memorial of the 165 Minab schoolchildren that were murdered by US-Israeli bombings on February 28th. The massacre was part of the opening aggression on Iran, launched by the United States and Israel, where nearly 200 Iranians lost their lives, including 165 schoolchildren that were less than 12 years old. The schoolchildren voice their solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran and their compatriots, denouncing US-Israeli criminality and aggression. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

THE ISRAELI CYCLE OF VIOLENCE Egyptian journalist Rahma Zein dismantles Piers Morgan’s attempt to frame Iran as a “pariah state,” turning the spotlight back onto Israel and its role in the region. Zein makes it clear: if any state stands out for sustained violence in West Asia, it is Israel. Established in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the Nakba, Israel’s very foundation is rooted in settler colonialism and the mass displacement of an indigenous population. That reality is not a historical footnote; it is the starting point. Since then, Israel has consistently projected military force across the region. It has bombed and occupied Lebanon for decades, and continues to carry out strikes with near impunity, almost killing British journalist Steve Sweeney on 19th March, despite being marked as press. It seized Syria’s Golan Heights in 1967 and later annexed it in violation of international law. From Gaza to Lebanon, to Syria and beyond, Israel’s military footprint stretches across multiple fronts. Yet despite this record, mainstream journalists like Piers Morgan persistently frame Israel as a state acting in “self-defence.” @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews @Rahmazeinegypt

TRUMP THREATENS TO 'TAKE' CUBA For Donald Trump, the brazen kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in early January served as a dry run for further regime-change fantasies against both Cuba and Iran. Since their respective anti-imperialist revolutions in 1959 and 1979 respectively, both countries have been outsize bogeymen of the reactionary US imagination. Their disproportionately right-wing diasporas, descended from exiled comprador elites, exert an overwhelmingly toxic influence on their adopted country's domestic politics. In recent weeks Iran has stolen the global limelight, as much for the strength of its resistance as the viciousness of the unprovoked US-Israeli attack. But all the while, Cuba has endured a sadistic US fuel blockade since the beginning of the year. And as Iran punishes Trump ever more severely for his miscalculation, the prospect of an 'easier' victory over the embattled island nation grows more tempting. Hence Trump's brazen aside at a White House press conference on 16 March that he could simply 'take' Cuba if he so wished. An assertion so nakedly colonial that it elicited double-takes from the otherwise jaded White House press corps. And it came at the end of a meandering monologue steeped in nostalgia for Cuba's pre-revolutionary oligarchy, whose wealth was built on generations of slave labor. The whole surreal episode bespoke Trump's extreme level of detachment from Cuba's realities, further compounded by his bizarre aside that the island is 'not in a hurricane zone'. In his profound ignorance, Cubans can find some reassurance. The island nation's vast capacity for communal popular mobilisation -- a socialist triumph on display during every hurricane season -- will also spell doom for whatever military misadventure Trump has planned. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

BRITISH JOURNALIST STEVE SWEENEY NEARLY KILLED IN LEBANON A video circulating on social media shows British journalist Steve Sweeney coming under a nearby Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon while reporting on the ongoing bombardment. The incident highlights, once again, the extreme risks journalists face while documenting Israeli military operations in the region. Whether or not he was directly targeted, the strike took place in close proximity to a clearly identifiable member of the press. Israel has a well-documented record of journalists being killed during its military campaigns. Since 2023, over 270 journalists have been killed in Gaza alone, according to multiple monitoring organisations, making it the deadliest conflict for media workers in recent history. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

UNLIKE THE EPSTEIN CLASS, IRAN LEADERS DON’T HIDE While the US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was claiming that Iran’s leadership was "cowering," "hiding," and "going underground like rats," the reality on the ground told a different story. Far from hiding in bunkers, the highest levels of the Iranian government were walking the rain-soaked streets of Tehran for Quds Day, an event held on the last Friday of every Ramadan in solidarity with P*lestine. In a massive show of defiance against the US-Isr*eli war, Iran's leaders mingled with the millions. The attendees included one of the "oppressed" Iranian women that the US "liberates" by bombing girls' schools: Farzana Sadegh, Iran's minister of roads and urban development. President Masoud Pezeshkian was seen moving through the crowds, greeting citizens and taking selfies with supporters. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stood in the middle of the march, reminding the world that the savage US-Isr*eli attacks have only strengthened the people's resolve. Judiciary Chief Mohseni-Ejei was being interviewed live when a missile struck nearby. Instead of running, he stood firm. Also in attendance was Iran's security chief Ali Larijani. In an X post directly responding to Hegseth, he said: "our leaders have been, and still are, among the people. But your leaders? On Epstein's island!" Days later, Larijani was martyred in an assassination that the imperialists thought would break the spirit of the resistance. However it only reenforced to the Iranian people that their humble leaders are willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause. Hegseth was following the classic imperial script: dehumanising your enemy to mask the failure of your own aggression. The Empire cannot admit that after weeks of the heaviest bombardment in history, the Iranian state remains standing and its people remain unbowed. The US says that Iran's leaders are "hiding." The footage shows them leading. The US says the people are confused about who is in charge, yet millions stood with their leaders on the streets. @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

IF TRUMP WANTS WAR, HE SHOULD BE FIRST ON THE FRONTLINE "I want to create an international law... if a President decides to start a war, he should be the first one at the front," said football legend Eric Cantona. Affectionately labelled "King Eric" for his legendary reign at Manchester United during the 90s, Cantona was more than a footballer. He was an artist, a philosopher, and a rebel: known for being the best player of his time in England as much as he was remembered for kung-fu kicking a racist Crystal Palace fan. But today, Cantona is using his fame to champion social justice. In comments to France's Canal+, Cantona exposed the sickening reality of modern warfare. While old politicians sit in offices, safe from the consequences of their signatures, they send 18-year-olds to be shredded on the front lines. This is especially relevant in the context of the current US-Israeli war on Iran, whereby young people are sacrificed for the imperial interests of political leaders unwilling to fight the wars they wage. Cantona made the distinction between US President Donald Trump - a desk-bound warmonger who "threatens to attack South American countries" - and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla who understands the weight of a weapon and the brutal reality of war. To give an example of the frontline accountability he is calling for, Cantona noted that Petro defiantly told Trump that if he wants a war, he should come and find him personally. "If there is a guy like [Petro], fine. But most of them are in offices sending others [to war]," Cantona said. "What for? For who? Why?," Cantona asked, reminding the audience that if the ones declaring war were the ones dying in them, there would be "way fewer wars." @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

We must Stand with Cuba 🇨🇺 #ENDBLOCKADEONCUBA #Freecuba

ISRAEL FLATTENS CIVILIAN APARTMENT BUILDING IN BEIRUT In the early hours of March 18, 2026, Israeli airstrikes targeted central Beirut neighborhoods, reducing high-rise residential buildings to mountains of concrete, as part of a wave of attacks on Lebanon that killed more than 20 and wounded dozens. Following the same playbook used in G*za, Isr*el is leveling entire city blocks in dense urban environments. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has explicitly threatened to make Beirut "look like Khan Younis," a promise being fulfilled building by building. But the US is complicit too. In a post on X, Dr. Haytham Kaafarani, a US citizen and surgeon who said he paid for seven years to own a small apartment in downtown Beirut for his 3 kids to enjoy summers there, said "today, Isr*el reduced my dream home to rubble, with American weapons, paid by my taxes". Beirut is being dismantled before the eyes of a silent "international community" that continues to fund the very bombs falling on these schools and apartments. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

IRAN REJECTS CEASEFIRE On 15 March 2026, during Iran's Foreign Ministry press conference, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi stated that the country did not want a ceasefire in the face of a US-Israeli attack because it is prepared to defend itself. He clarified that, as difficult a time as this is for Iran, the country is prepared to fight this war until the very end to guarantee that it is never again subjected to these forms of unprovoked aggression. In addition to this, Araghchi declared that if US military assets in the region will be used to attack Iran, Iran is prepared to wage a counterattack. He clarified that Iran's issue is not with its neighbours, but with the US bases and outposts that exist throughout West Asia. According to Chapter VII Article 51 of the UN Charter, countries have an inherent right to self-defence. The unprovoked attack by the US and Israel, and the death toll of over 1400 civilians, including many children, would have justified self-defence had this happened to any other country; however, the neocolonial bias is glaring. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

US MAY BLOCK HIV AID UNLESS ZAMBIA GIVES UP ITS MINERALS The brutal reality of American "humanitarian aid" is being exposed by a report that the US may gamble with the lives of 1.3 million HIV patients in Zambia to secure a monopoly over the country’s minerals, Around 1.3 million Zambians rely on daily HIV treatment from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. However, according to a leaked US State Department memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio obtained by the New York Times, the US is considering "the potential use of sticks": effectively threatening to block this vital aid to force Zambia into a new mining deal. Zambia is a global powerhouse in copper, lithium, and cobalt. The US considers these minerals critical for a transition to a clean energy economy and the advancement of its technology sector. But the US is also terrified of losing ground to China and is now using the health of Zambians as a bargaining chip to seize control of these reserves. The memo explicitly notes that "other countries are watching," reflecting how these threats are a warning to the Global South: surrender your resources, or we will cut your lifelines. For decades, the US has used "aid" to paint itself as a global saviour. This leak proves that such programmes are colonial leashes rather than generosity. By weaponising the survival of 1.3 million people to secure a monopoly on copper and cobalt, the US has proven that its "humanitarian aid" is merely a tool for corporate greed. African resources belong to Africans, not to an Empire that trades medicine for mines. @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

INSIDE “SIREN”: BRITISH SURVEILLANCE WITHIN LEBANON How is a UK-based intelligence firm spying on Lebanese society? Meet British consultancy “Siren Associates,” based in Beirut since 2008, which has deepened its involvement in Lebanon's security and governance institutions, particularly the Internal Security Forces (ISF) under the Interior Ministry. Funded by UK government contracts to strengthen policing and surveillance, Siren builds digital surveillance platforms and provides technical assistance to intelligence parties amid Lebanon's economic crisis and displacement waves due to American-Israeli aggression. Recently, Siren launched "Monitor Lebanon", a real-time situational awareness platform aggregating open-source data to track security events, aiding navigation of the country's volatile environment. Led by CEO Jonathan McIvor (with prior Northern Ireland policing experience), Siren's role - including data-sharing agreements with ministries - fuels worries of enabling foreign intelligence influence and misuse against displaced populations from Israeli aggression. @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

IRISH FORGOT THEIR OPPRESSION This weekend, millions of people of Irish descent will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in cities like New York City and Boston, places shaped by Irish migration. Many Irish arrived in the United States fleeing oppression, poverty, and persecution under British rule. In their new home, they were pushed into the most dangerous and lowest paid jobs, building canals, railroads, and working the docks, while living in overcrowded slums marked by disease and hardship. They had escaped a system of domination in Ireland where British landlordism and the Penal Laws stripped Irish Catholics of rights, dignity, and power. In many ways, their conditions echoed other forms of racial and class oppression. Yet history took a different turn. As Bernadette Devlin, an Irish socialist from the occupied six counties in the North of Ireland, explains in this clip, rather than forming lasting solidarity with Black communities, many Irish immigrants in the U.S. chose to align themselves with whiteness, opposing abolition and at times participating in violence against Black Americans in order to secure jobs and social mobility. That alignment opened doors. Over time, Irish Americans gained access to political power, employment, and full inclusion into the category of “white,” a status denied to others. Their story is often used to argue that any group can “make it,” but that narrative ignores the racial privileges they were ultimately allowed to access. As Lyndon B. Johnson, a former President of the United States, once put it, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best Black man, he won’t notice you're picking his pocket.” Credit: WBHG TV @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

The US-Israel’s insistence on decapitation strikes has still not shaken the Islamic Republic, even after the loss of Ayatollah Khamenei, as the public rallies around the state and support the defence of the nation.

Larijani held many positions within Iran, with a political career dating back to 1981 - including Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly

A Thread 👇🏿 US-ISRAELI AXIS ASSASSINATES ALI LARIJANI On the night of March 16, a US-Israeli bombing in Tehran assassinated Ali Larijani, Iran's Secretary for the Supreme National Security Council. Larijani served in Iranian politics for decades and was a widely revered leader and politician. He was close to the martyred leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei and was a respected strategist and thinker. Larijani was assassinated alongside his son. @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

QUDS DAY PROTESTERS ATTACKED BY US AND ISRAEL On 13 March 2026, mobilisers poured into the streets of Tehran, Iran, as well as cities around the world,to demonstrate their support for the peoples of Palestine and Iran. The protests were held on Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with Palestine on the last Friday of Ramadan. As the United States and Israel are waging a brutal war of destruction on Iran and their chosen leadership, they did not spare anyone on Quds Day. A large explosion caused by a US-Israeli air strike hit Ferdowsi Square on Enqelab Street near Tehran University. At least one person was killed in the strike. By the time of the deadly attack, the United States and Israel had already killed 1,444 people and wounded 18,551 others since the war began on 28 February 2026. On 12 March 2026, Iran's new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, pledged to continue to fight back against U.S.-Israeli warfare. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

ISRAEL ATTACKED A PARAMEDICAL CENTER AND KILLED 12 IN SOUTH LEBANON On March 14, an Israeli airstrike reduced the Islamic Health Committee centre in Burj Qalaouiyah to rubble. Inside, 12 medical workers—paramedics, nurses, and a doctor—were killed instantly. They were not combatants. They were caregivers in an officially recognised organisation, the primary source of first aid for an entire region. This was not an isolated incident. The World Health Organisation has verified 27 Israeli strikes targeting Lebanon's health system since the war began, killing over 30 medical workers and wounding 35 more. On March 16, medics responding to a strike in Kfarsir were bombed while treating the wounded. The message is unmistakable: in this war, saving lives is a capital offence. The broader toll is staggering. Since March 2, over 886 Lebanese have been killed, including 111 children and 38 health workers. More than one million people—nearly one in five Lebanese—have been displaced. Israel has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering over 1,470 square kilometres, forcing families from 100 towns and villages. Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that displaced civilians will not be allowed to return, raising fears of permanent occupation. Reporting from Burj Qalaouiyah, the debris tells the story: scattered medical supplies, destroyed ambulances, testing tubes buried in concrete. The Israelis claim these centres support the resistance, but on the ground, they are simply where people go when they are bleeding. Today, there is nowhere left to go. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews