Middle East 4 ChangeThe ethics of drones
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Thomas Nagel London Review of Books American philosopher Thomas Nagel attempts to lay out an ethical framework for how the rights and wrongs of drone warfare may be…
The Global disorder of Capital
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Alain Badiou translated by Yassamine Mather Weekly Worker Alain Badiou discusses the consequences of neoliberal capital’s disastrous policies worldwide and what he calls new imperial practices. He writes:…
Military to Military: Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Seymour M Hersh London Review of Books The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports on the confusions and disagreements within the US over its policy in Syria. He also…
A brief history of ISIS – ISIS emerged out of the dashed hope of the Arab Spring
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
by Adam Hanieh Jacobin In the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, much of the Left has linked the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq…
On ISIS
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Editorial commentary – MER276 Middle East Research and Information Project In early June 2014 the world was shocked by news of the fall of Mosul, the third largest…
Syrian Democratic and Revolutionary Opposition
Monday, December 14, 2015
Interview with Joseph Daher Radio Zamaneh Joseph Daher is a Syrian-Swiss Marxist intellectual with a PhD in Development at the University of SOAS, London. He is also a member of Solidarités…
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…
Pipeline politics in Syria
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
By Major Rob Taylor Armed Forces Journal You can’t understand the conflict without talking about natural gas. Much of the media coverage suggests that the conflict in Syria…
The French Emergency
Sunday, December 6, 2015
By Gray Anderson in Jacobin From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent. Read more
Magical Thinking about Isis
Friday, November 27, 2015
By Adam Shatz – London Review of Books In a wide-ranging essay in the LRB, Adam Shatz, discusses the causes and repercussions of the recent Daesh (ISIS) attacks…
ISIS: In a borderless world we cannot fight foreign wars and be safe at home
Monday, November 23, 2015
By Robert Fisk – The Independent Isis was quick to understand a truth the West must now confront: that the national borders imposed by colonial powers 100 years…