Middle East 4 ChangeAfter 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…
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…
Indian Muslims facing ‘genocidal climate’ amid pandemic
Monday, June 22, 2020
Arundhati Roy India’s coronavirus lockdown, which began in March, has been one of largest and strictest in the world. It has left tens of millions without work prompting…
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Helena Norberg-Hodge. Posted on TNI Longreads. For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the…
The Ever-Shrinking Space for Hazara Ethnic Group
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Rohullah Naderi. Posted on Counterpunch June 22, 2018. The hunger strike by Ms. Jalila Haider, a human rights attorney and founder of a nonprofit organization, “We the Human…
Israel and Gaza: Policy of Kill and Kill and Kill
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Saree Makdisi. Posted on Counterpunch May 16, 2018. Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday. In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians—including six children—and injured…
Asifa, My Child: a poem by Bardi Raina
Monday, April 16, 2018
Badri Raina. Posted on ZNet on April 14, 2018. Asifa, my child, I wish I was not writing about you But holding you to my chest. Asifa, I…
Congress fuels Christian rivalries with bid to arm Iraqi militias
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Bryant Harris Posted on al-Monitor on September 15, 2017. A little-noticed provision to arm Iraqi Christians in the House version of a must-pass defense bill is inadvertently fueling unrest…
Working class power & feminism: An interview with Alia Amirali
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Links. Sara Jaffri (SJ): How did you get involved in political work, and with what sort of organizing have you been involved? Alia Amirali (AA): I grew up…
Truth is always revolutionary
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Jurgen Balzan, Malta Today. Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is one of the leading lights of Arab literature and he says that the Israeli occupation is classical colonialism built…
Turkey: HDP proposes law for peace
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Green Left The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a Kurdish-led party that has united a swath of Turkey’s broad left, has proposed a new law in parliament to establish…
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
Friday, April 22, 2016
Richard Hardigan Counterpunch According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West…
USA: 8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Juan Cole Informed Comment Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, and since then the FBI has been issuing annual reports on crimes of bias or…
Struggle for a Democratic Socialism in the Middle East: Interview
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Joseph Daher Problematica/Syria Freedom Forever Recent mass movements in Middle Eastern and North African countries, despite their defeats and failures, showed prospects and possibilities of a progressive change…
Kurdish PYD leader: Time has proved us right
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Interview by Karlos Zurutuza Links Salih Muslim Muhammad is co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party – PYD, the political force that has led the uprising of the Kurds in…
The end of Syria’s Baathist dictatorship?
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Fred H Lawson Le Monde Diplomatique As Syria’s civil war enters its sixth year, President Bashar al-Assad finds himself steadily gaining strength relative to the country’s disparate collection…
On Texas secession, Syrian partition and imploding nation-states
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Christina Lin Asia Times The house of international law could be shaken to its foundations if Secretary of State John Kerry removes a critical cornerstone that holds it…
Experiment in communal living in Eastern Turkey destroyed
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Abdullah Demirbas New York Times Former mayor of Diyarbakir’s historic Sur district in eastern Turkey describes how an experiment in peaceful communal living among different ethnic and religious…
The national question part II: New context, new focus: the colonial question after Lenin
Friday, February 5, 2016
By Moshé Machover Weekly Worker The second of a three part historical analysis examines the roots and possible solution to the asymmetrical confrontation between two discrete national groups:…
Why are so many staying silent on the Kurdish conflict?
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Pinar Tremblay Al-Monitor The current war imposed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Kurdish people by the Erdogan regime in Turkey is not only causing terrible…
Along the divide – Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies
Thursday, December 10, 2015
By Nathan Thrall London Review of Books Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies by Yossi Alpher Rowman and Littlefield, 196 pp, £23.95, January, ISBN 978 1 4422 3101 6 Israel is now confronted…
Political Islam, class and capital Part 1: what are its common features?
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
By Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohasses The last three decades have witnessed a relentless growth of Islamist movements, so that today political Islam is an undeniable reality…