Middle East 4 ChangeWar crimes
Friday, November 24, 2023
Conor Gearty International law takes a special interest in war. Where there is an armed conflict or an occupation it is not enough to hope vaguely that human…
‘The Refugee Problem’
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Leila Farsakh writes about the Palestinians’ struggle for recognition Almost a month has elapsed since Hamas fighters broke the siege that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip for…
Vengeful Pathologies: Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza
Monday, November 6, 2023
On 16 October , Sabrina Tavernise, the host of the New York Times podcast The Daily, spoke to two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ‘So, Abdallah,’ Tavernise said to Abdallah Hasaneen, a…
After Hamas Attack, Israel Launches Genocidal Destruction
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Ralph Nader In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s horrific counterattack on mostly Israeli civilians and Israel’s hourly genocidal bombing on Gaza’s more than 2 million people – nearly…
After the Israeli Election
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Moshé Machover The results of the elections to the Israeli parliament held on November 1 are momentous and I think we are heading for a crisis that will…
Russia-Ukraine war: US quest to preserve global hegemony could be its downfall
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Marco Carnelos When the doyen of foreign policy gurus, Henry Kissinger, is hinting that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to help end the invasion, you know in…
Not 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…
Rise of the killer machine
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Yassamine Mather n December 2021, in a lecture on artificial intelligence, professor Stuart Russell warned about artificial intelligence weapons as a threat to humanity. Russell has, on a…
Iran nuclear deal and Israel’s factory of falshood
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Moshé Machover At the time of writing, the outcome of the Vienna talks about restoring the Iran nuclear deal – the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),…
Tunnel Vision: Israel’s multidimensional warfare
Monday, December 20, 2021
Eyal Weizman Now that Gaza’s perimeter is completely sealed – by fences on land and the Israeli navy at sea – the axis of conflict has turned 90…
Iran nuclear deal: Sabotage, scientists, sanctions
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Soheil Behrang There are conflicting reports about the first round of negotiations between Iran’s Islamic Republic and the P5+1 – the United Nations security council’s five permanent members…
Israel and Iran Broaden Cyberwar to Attack Civilian Targets
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Millions of ordinary people in Iran and Israel recently found themselves caught in the crossfire of a cyberwar between their countries. In Tehran,…
Each rock has two names: the war over Nagorno-Karabakh
Friday, June 25, 2021
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Outside the town of Agdam, in the foothills of Nagorno-Karabakh, trucks and tank carriers had left tracks in the muddy road. Bomb craters and mangled military…
Ghosts in the Land
Friday, May 28, 2021
Adam Shatz on the war in Israel-Palestine On 21 May Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire after eleven days of fighting, but the days of ‘quiet’ – as the New…
Why Israel won’t win in Gaza
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Maureen Clare Murphy Palestinian armed groups made good on their threats to strike Tel Aviv with unprecedented fire after Israel leveled a residential tower in Gaza on Tuesday….
Without US Aid, Israel Wouldn’t Be Killing Palestinians En Masse
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Noam Chomsky and CJ Polychroniou Successive Israeli governments have been trying for years to push Palestinians out of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the latest round of…
10 years of the Syrian conflict: a time to act and not merely to remember
Monday, April 12, 2021
Samer Jabbour, Jennifer Leaning, Iman Nuwayhid and others The health needs in Syria after 10 years of conflict are vast, ranking third after food and protection needs.22 There…
Toxic Saturation and Health Devastation in Iraq: The Indelible Damage of War (Part 1)
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Carly A. Krakow More than seventeen years since the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, and more than thirty years since the beginning of the 1990–91 Gulf War, legislation has…
Ending the Other War in Yemen
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Brian Terrell On February 4, in his first major foreign policy address, President Joe Biden announced “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war…
Blips on the Screen: the drone as a weapon of war
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Andrew Cockburn The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace by Michael Boyle. Oxford, Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium by Thomas Stubblefield. California, The Kill Chain: Defending America…
Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Patrick Cockburn I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace…
The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Binoy Kampmark “Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent.” So…
Syria alone
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Patrick Cockburn Suha Ahmad lives on the outskirts of the port city of Tartus in north-west Syria. Her husband was killed in March while fighting on the government…
The Syrian Mercenaries Fighting Foreign Wars for Russia and Turkey
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Elizabeth Tsurkov “They sent us directly to the front lines. The situation is terrible. Terrible. There is fighting every day. We are charged with storming. There is no…
With love and fury: the Syrian writers proving there’s more than one war story: Book Review
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Robin Yassin-Kassab “Syrians. I hated the deceptive simplicity of that word. We were twenty-three million people. Soldiers and fighters. Revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The torturer and the victim. How…
What’s Really Driving the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Djene Rhys, BajalanSara Nur Yildiz, Vazken Khatchig Davidian The outbreak of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has thrust the long-running dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh (Mountainous Karabakh, known to Armenians…
How filmmaker Khosrow Sinai uncovered the hidden history of Polish refugees in Iran
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Aga Sablinska Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai passed away in August from COVID-19, leaving behind an important and eye-opening document of Polish exodus during the Second World War. His…
Syrian rebels sign up to fight for Azeris in Nagorno-Karabakh to feed families
Sunday, October 4, 2020
MEE and agencies Desperate to help his family displaced by Syria’s war, pro-Turkey rebel fighter Abu Ahmad is waiting to be deployed to Azerbaijan, hoping to earn almost 80…
Some reflections on Occupied Iraq
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Mike Phipps I Introduction Iraq is back in the news again, partly due to the airing of a five-part BBC documentary. Once Upon a Time in Iraq has…
Will October Surprise Be Trump-Provoked War With Iran?
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Bob Dreyfuss Was Donald Trump’s January 3rd drone assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani the first step in turning the simmering Cold War between the United States and…