Middle East 4 ChangeLabor and Class in Iran: An Interview with Mohammad Maljoo
Friday, June 23, 2017
Paola Rivetti. This article was posted on MERIP online on May 26 2017. Following the July 2015 signature of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or “nuclear…
64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian. This article was posted on Foreign Policy on June 20, 2017. New documents reveal how the CIA attempted to call off the failing coup — only…
Israel backs Saudi Arabia in confrontation with Qatar
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Ali Abunimah. First posted on Electronic Intifada on June 11, 2017. Israeli officials have gleefully endorsed the position of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a…
After years of battling low-level Sunni insurgency, Iran hit by first IS attack
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Mona Alami. Posted on Middle East Eye on June 9, 2017. The first attack in Iran claimed by IS follows years of low-level intensity Sunni militant activity. Already…
Qatar Real Story
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Robert Fisk. Posted on ZNet on June 10, 2017. Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is The Qatar crisis proves two…
The Baghdad Road: eyewitness in Mosul
Friday, June 9, 2017
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. This article frist appeared on London Review of Books volume 39, number9, May 5, 2017. On the morning of 5 March a group of soldiers belonging…
A 50-Year Occupation: Israel’s Six-Day War Started With a Lie
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept_. Fifty years ago, between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel invaded and occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the…
Proving paternity: A prolonged struggle for thousands of Egyptian mothers
Monday, June 5, 2017
Mai Shams El-Din, Mada. For mothers who choose to file paternity lawsuits, proceedings can take years. “I wrote this post just to say that I will not give…
Socialist Register 2017, Rethinking Revolution: Book Review
Friday, June 2, 2017
Gregory Albo and Leo Panitch One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today,…