Stop the War. Stop US Empire.
The United States has no right to bomb countries, to overthrow governments, or toassassinate other states’ officials, though it has been doing so for so long that these practices have come to be widely accepted as natural.
President Donald Trump speaks at the signing ceremony for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 on December 20, 2019 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)
To stop a war, it’s necessary to be clear about its causes.
In a criminal act, the United States assassinated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most important military official and one of the country’s most powerful people, as well as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), which are allied with Iran, along with as many as eight other people.
Subsequently, a US air raid, ostensibly aimed at a PMF commander, killed six people, some of whom were medics, and left three others critically wounded.
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