Jeremy Corbyn. Posted on the Guardian April 15 and ZNet on April 16. These are serious times. Following the missile attacks on Syria, now is the moment for a powerful…
Marjorie Cohn. Posted on Truthout on April 12, 2018. Donald Trump says the United States is about to bomb Syria, and Russia has vowed to shoot down US…
Robert Fisk. Posted on Independent April 12, 2018 and ZNet April 14, 2018. Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses….
Yassamine Mather. Posted on Weekly Worker no 1197, April 5, 2018. The first two weeks of the Iranian new year have been eventful times. Sections of the local…
Patrick Cockburn. Published in London Review of Books Volume 40 number 7 April 5, 2018. When I first visited Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria, early in 2015, it…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Counterpunch April 2, 2018. Armed conflict between the US and Iran is becoming more probable by the day as super-hawks replace hawks in the…
Güney Işıkara and Alp Kayserilioğlu. Posted on Jacobin 22nd March 2018. On January 20, the Turkish military launched its invasion of the Syrian-Kurdish canton of Afrîn in northwest…
Ben Watson Posted on the Atlantic February 3, 2018. A strange and worrisome silence settled over Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa after Houthi rebels seized power in broad…
Posted on Lancet Global Health volume 6, number 1. Background Since March, 2011, the Syrian civil war has lowered life expectancy by as much as 20 years. We…
Geoff Dutton. Posted in CounterPunch on February 16, 2018. By all accounts, wherever the Islamic State has gained and held territory, its residents suffer terrible oppression and deprivation….
Ramzy Baroud Posted on ZCommunications February 17, 2018. Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favor of Israel, unmistakable trends…
Ceren Lord. Posted by MERIP on February 4, 2018. At the heart of the controversy over Islamization in Turkey has been the accelerated rise and visibility of the…
Jaleh Ahmadi. This article was first published in Iran Bulletin-Middle East Forum number 1, 2004. We are posting it in Middleast4Change because of its relevance in the current…
Ardeshir Mehrdad. Part 1 of this article discussed what features distinguished the latest wave of protests from all previous ones. In Part 2 we discuss its actual…
Rahman Bouzari. Posted on Counterpunch on January 24, 2018. One of the largest social and political uprisings since the 1979 revolution in Iran has died down for now….
Robert Fisk. Posted on the Independent January 22, 2018. Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on CounterPunch on January 18, 2018. The US-Iran confrontation is already destabilising parts of the Middle East that were starting to settle down after the…
Ardeshir Mehrdad. 1 The wave of protest and demonstrations began at the end of last December and enveloped most of Iran’s towns and cities will be recorded as…
Mohammad Tootkaboni. Posted on Left Voice, January 8, 2018. Over the past week, protests have erupted in the streets of Iranian cities. This might not be surprising for…
Leo Wiggen-Bush. Posted on Jadaliyya on January 3, 2018. This article shows how the detention of Palestinian children by Israeli occupation forces impacts education and development. It explores…
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on Znet December 27, 2017. 2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called ‘peace process’, at least in its American formulation, has ended….
The protest movement that began on 28 December differs from those in previous years. There is universal recognition that the protests were triggered off by the worsening economy…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Independent February 2017. We reproduce it on ME4Change as a useful summary of US involvement in the Middle East President Trump made great play…
Neil Hauer. Posted on Souciant on December 4, 2017. TBILISI – International actors have been positioning themselves to exploit new realities in Syria and solidify their involvement in…
Ryan Grim. Posted on the Intercept_ on December 1, 2017 The tax bill moving its way through Congress is routinely referred to as a $1.5 trillion tax cut….
Victor Wallis. Posted on Monthly Review online on November 28, 2017. Originally published: Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 3 (November 2017) I I recall that in the…
Isaac Arnsdorf. This story was originally published on ProPublica on November 29, 2017. The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick…
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News. Posted in Colonialism & Occupation, Geopolitics, Global Economy, Media Analysis on 1 December 2017. Washington’s plan to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…
Hamidreza Azizi. Posted by al Monitor on December 6, 2017. TEHRAN, Iran — The Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi, widely known for its tourist attractions, has recently…
Karam Hilo. Posted on Al Jadalyyah and Qantara.de 2017. In this essay, Lebanese journalist Karam Hilo asks whether it is possible to apply the Western concept of democracy…
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