Middle East 4 ChangeNot War Alone
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Tom Stevenson on the global food crisis Egypt’s Ministry of Supply is headed by Ali Moselhi, a former Mubarak crony whose career was resurrected in 2017 by the…
Ecological Leninism
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Adam Tooze on Andreas Malm’s post-pandemic climate politics The carbon clock is ticking. Governments and official agencies assure us that all will be well, that they can balance the…
Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Vijay Prashad On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the…
سلبمالکیت، پرولتریزهشدن و خیزشهای فرودستان عرب خوزستان
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Ardeshir Mehrdad argues that the recent protests by the Arab population of Khuzestan province of Iran was not only the result of ethnic-national discrimination suffered by…
Spiralling poverty in Iran adds to pressure on regime
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Najmeh Bozorgmehr This time last year, Mohammad could still just about afford fruit and chicken for his three children. But as US sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic have…
Iran: Three waves of urban protest, 1992-2019
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Since the beginning of the 1990s, Iranian society has witnessed successive waves of protest movements. One could argue that it has been in a perpetual state…
Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Various contributers From deep-rooted racism to the Covid-19 pandemic, from extreme inequality to ecological collapse, our world is facing dire and deeply interconnected emergencies. But as much as…
Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Multiple Crises, Multiple Obstacles Mel Gurtov COVID-19 and the protests for racial justice have drawn attention away from the mostly bad news about the environment. Yes, the skies…
China Signs Series Of Deals To Develop Supergiant Oilfield In Iran
Monday, August 3, 2020
Simon Watkins Two key questions logically arise from last week’s announcement from Iran’s Petroleum Ministry that it has awarded a US$1.3 billion development deal to more than double…
Iran jolts India to activate US sanctions loophole
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Kaveh Afrasiabi Earlier this month, authorities in New Delhi were rattled by reports from Iran that India had been expelled from a key investment project in favor of…
Sweatshops and monopsony power – a review
Friday, July 17, 2020
Michael Roberts ME4Change has posted this article because the condition of garment workers in the UK city of Leicester is replicated throughout the Middle East and to underline…
Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of…
Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Iran is one of the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). What effects will the realization of the BRI have on the geo economical and…
پاندمی کرونا، فاجعه زیست محیطی و سرمایه داری جهانی: یک پدیده در هم تنیده
Sunday, May 31, 2020
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Iran Quietly Lowers the Temperature With U.S.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Alissa J. Rubin and Farnaz Fassihi After years of increasing tensions that nearly led to war, Iran has moderated its approach to the West, shifting from a policy…
China in the post-pandemic 2020s
Friday, May 22, 2020
Michael Roberts China’s National Peoples Congress (NPC) opened today, having been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The NPC is China’s version of a parliament and used by the…
How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War: Book review
Friday, May 15, 2020
Louis Proyect Ever since the civil war began in Syria in early 2011, the left has largely ignored the social and economic circumstances that led to a conflict…
The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Mehdi Kia The Covid-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.[1] See John Bellamy Foster and Brett…
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace Calculation COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is…
The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Michael T. Klare Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise….
Essential Books: Environment and Politics in the Middle East
Thursday, April 30, 2020
While scholars of the Middle East have long been attentive to problems of land and property, resource extraction and accumulation, and the political nature of knowledge production, it…
Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova
Thursday, April 16, 2020
John Smith “Global yields lowest in 500 years of recorded history. $10 trillion of negative rate bonds. This is a supernova that will explode one day,” tweeted Bill…
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry…
Covid-19 pandemic: A war economy?
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Michael Roberts If all country pandemics were the same, then the figure below would be how this pandemic will come to an end. The start-to-peak ratio of Covid-19…
Global economy: The ’emerging market’ slump
Friday, March 20, 2020
Michael Roberts Forecasts of a global slump in the rest of 2020 are coming in droves from mainstream economists – it’s now the consensus that there will be…
Roundtable: Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 1)
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Arash Davari, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Zep Kalb, Arang Keshavarzian, Azam Khatam, Saira Rafiee, and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi Introduction Much of the discussion about politics in the Islamic Republic…
Iraq Is On The Brink Of An Energy Crisis
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Simon Watkins As the deadline for the U.S. to renew its waiver on Iraq importing gas and electricity from Iran approaches later this month, the three key players…
Lebanon: Clientelism and the Destruction of Ancient Water Systems in Saida
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Lyne Jabri An overview of the modern urban history of Saida, Lebanon, reveals that the biggest changes to the city occur during times of crisis. During such critical…
بیخانمانی و پدیده تراژیک فرودستان حاشیهای؛ از خانه تا خیابان
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
مرتضی دیّاری مقدمه مسئلۀ بیخانمانی و آثار فردی و اجتماعی آن، به عنوان یکی از مسائل اجتماعی ایران، از ابعاد مختلف قابل بررسی است. با گسترش این پدیده…
Understanding Socialism by Richard Wolff: Book Review
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Michael Roberts The New York Times magazine has described Richard Wolff as “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist”. And that is probably not an exaggeration as a description of this emeritus Professor of…