4 ChangeA Look Inside MEK’s Secretive Camp In Albania
Monday, September 10, 2018
Lindsey Hilsum. Broadcast on Channel 4 news, UK, September 10, 2018. A Look Inside MEK’s Secretive Camp In Albania Published on the Iranian
The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu: Book Review
Friday, September 7, 2018
Adam Shatz. Posted on London Review of Books vol 40 no 16, August 30 2018. Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer, Hurst, 423 pp,…
The US-Turkey standoff in context: Global capitalism and the crisis of hegemony
Thursday, September 6, 2018
By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay. Posted on ZCommunications September 5, 2018. Source: Links.org Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when United States President Donald Trump…
Lebanon is on a tightrope, balancing the Saudis, Iran and the West
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Robert Fisk. Posted on Zcommunications and the Independent September 4, 2018. Facing possible invasion from both Britain and Germany in 1940 and determined to remain neutral, the Irish government in Dublin asked one of…
Squeezing Iran: Part 1, Trump’s project in the Middle East
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Interview with Ardeshir Mehrdad. Mehdi Kia: The last few weeks has seen an escalation of US pressures on an Iran already reeling under economic and political crisis and…
Alfred McCoy: Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon?
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Alfred W. McCoy. Posted on TomDispatch August 21 2018. As the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and sixth of Xi Jinping’s draws to a close, the world…
Iran Is Throwing a Tantrum but Wants a Deal
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Dennis Ross. Posted on Washington Institute August 15, 2108. Defiant warnings aside, Tehran will eventually negotiate with President Trump—as long as Vladimir Putin mediates. Even in its afterlife,…
New Caspian Accord Resolves Some Issues, Not All
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Mark N Katz. Posted on Lobelog August 15, 2018. Ever since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five states bordering the Caspian Sea (Russia, Kazakhstan,…
No attack on Iran, yet
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Andrew Levine. Posted on Counterpunch August 11, 2018. Donald Trump is in enough trouble, legally and politically, to need a war – or so one would think. Sanctions…
While Iran Braces for Sanctions, What Comes Next?
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Derek Davidson. Posted on lobe log August 7, 2018. Consistent with his decision in May to breach the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or…
Is Russia Facilitating Trump’s Strangulation of Iran?
Monday, August 6, 2018
Dan Glazebrook. Posted on Counterpunch August 3, 2018. Since the earliest days on the campaign trail, it has never been in doubt who Trump and his team have…
Yemen’s Turn
Friday, August 3, 2018
Tariq Ali. Posted on New Left Review 111, May-June 2018. Some general characteristics of the imperialist recolonization of the Arab world, which began with that brutal dress-rehearsal, the…
‘Tweet of Mass Destruction’ ratchets up tension on Iran
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Pepe Escobar Posted on Asia Times July 24, 2018. President Trump’s late-night, all-caps Tweet of Mass Destruction threatening Iran is bound to be enshrined in the Art of Diplomacy…
Warnings of ‘Iraq War Redux’ as Bolton and Pompeo Are Reportedly Leading Push to ‘Forment Unrest’ in Iran
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Jake Johnson. Posted on Common Dreams July 12, 2018. n writings and speeches over just the past several months, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton and…
US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approves the Israel Anti-Boycott Act
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Amjad Iraqi. Posted on London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 14 · 19 July 2018. Late last month, the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approved…
From Gaza to Jerusalem to Iran: Shifts in the Middle East and the Place of Palestine
Monday, July 23, 2018
Joel Beinin. Published by MERIP July 12, 2018 The Palestinian Great March of Return, which began on March 30, 2018 and continued into June, was a popular mobilization…
The Syrian War in Five Sieges
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, July 19, 2018. The road to Raqqa, once the de facto Syrian capital of Islamic State, looks surprisingly…
Bolton, MEK and Trump’s Iran Strategy
Friday, July 13, 2018
Garry Leupp. Posted on Counterpunch July 11, 2018. There are growing indications that the Trump administration plans to use the Mojahedin-e Khalq (People’s Mojahedin of Iran, or MEK)…
Donald Trump’s New World Order: How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Adam Entous. Posted on the New Yorker June 18, 2018. On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, rode from his…
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: Beyond the Rule of Capital?
Friday, June 8, 2018
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar. Posted on Monthly Review, June 1, 2018. In August 2017, seven months into the most reactionary U.S. presidency of modern times, Donald Trump ventured into…
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Henry Siegman. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using…
Iran: Sanctions & War
Monday, May 28, 2018
Conn Hallinan. Posted on CounterPunch May 25, 2018. The question is: has the Trump administration already made a decision to go to war with Iran, similar to the…
Why Mike Pompeo’s ‘Severest Sanctions’ on Iran Will Backfire
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Juan Cole. Posted on TruthDig May 23, 2018. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech on new sanctions on Iran lays out a wide range of Iranian behavior he would…
Scourging Yemen: civilians are being punished with death
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Kathy Kelly. Posted on ZCommunications 22 May, 2018. On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that…
Yanis Varoufakis on Lost U.S. Credibility in Middle East, from Iran Deal to Israel Embassy Move
Friday, May 18, 2018
Posted on Democracy Now 14 May 2018. In the latest economic fallout from President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the landmark Iran nuclear agreement,…
Iran, USA and Israel: The drift towards War
Friday, May 11, 2018
Adam Shatz. Posted on London Review of Books May 11, 2018. Benjamin Netanyahu first met Donald Trump in 1986, when they were introduced by Ronald Lauder, the heir…
Playing Tehran’s game. The Islamic Republic thrives on crisis.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Yassamine Mather. Posted on Weekly Worker May 10, 2018. Those who believe Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal will damage the Islamic Republic are badly mistaken. When Donald…
Secret Teams in Another Deadly Imperial War
Friday, May 11, 2018
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Posted on ZNet May 10, 2013. The New York Times has reported of the presence of secret teams of American Green Berets on the Saudi Arabian…
How Will Europe React to Trump’s Dumping the Iran Deal?
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Gary Leupp. Posted on Counterpunch 9th May 2018. People are asking how Iran will respond to Trump’s announcement about U.S.withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed…
The war on Iran has begun. Russia must end it
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Dan Glazebrook. Posted on Middle East Eye, May 4, 2018. The destruction of states such as Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran is about isolating Russia when its own…