Middle East 4 ChangeJihadism: bitter fruit of imperialism
Saturday, November 20, 2021
Yassamine Mather n the aftermath of every Islamist terror attacks in America, Europe or the UK, such as the stabbing of Tory MP David Amess, we hear 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…
Vaccine nationalism and the Global South
Friday, August 27, 2021
Yanis Iqbal United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted on January 3: “Vaccine nationalism is not only unfair, it is self-defeating. No country will be safe … until all…
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…
After ISIS
Friday, February 5, 2021
Patrick Cockburn Alend Shoresh is a Kurdish farmer and teacher from north-east Syria who was conscripted into fighting Islamic State in 2018: he joined the Syrian Democratic Forces…
THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
As`ad AbuKhalil Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and now former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed to engineer various foreign policy initiatives in the very last stretch of…
The House of Zion
Monday, December 28, 2020
Perry Anderson Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us…
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…
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…
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…
The Syrian Revolution: A History from Below
Friday, July 10, 2020
12 Webinars, June 20-August 5, 2020 Syria has been the focus of much regional and global attention following the massive eruption of popular revolt in mid-March 2011. The…
US imperialism, Zionist and the danger of war
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Mike Macnair, Moshé Machover, Yassamine Mather Crisis and need for conflict Mike Macnair What we are seeing today is a situation where the United States is lashing out…
Palestine: 100 Years of Shame
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Ramzy Baroud One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate…
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…
Iraq’s Resistance Reveals How U.S. Troops Will Be Removed From Its Country
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+…
Trump Administration declares US an Occupying Power in Iraq
Monday, January 13, 2020
Juan Cole The Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdulmahdi late last week requested a meeting with the US government to plan out the departure of US troops, which has…
Trump Unites Iran and Iraq . . . against the United States
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Juan Cole As is always the way with Western colonialists, Trump administration figures such as secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave it out on Friday that the people…
The Democrats Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Jonathan Cook There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria….
Up In Smoke: The Neocon Assault on Syria Is Finally Over
Saturday, October 26, 2019
David Stockman By a vote of 354-60 last week the U.S. House of Representative proved that Imperial Washington is addicted to war, and that the level of ignorance,…
Kushner’s Threat to Palestine: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Norman Finkelstein and Colter Louwese. Norman Finkelstein is a leading authority on the Israel-Palestine conflict. While most observers have proclaimed Jared Kushner’s ongoing ‘peace’ initiative to be dead…
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik. Harry Magdoff’s The Age of Imperialism is a classic work that shows how postwar political decolonization does not negate the phenomenon of imperialism….
Are human rights history?
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman Not so long ago, human rights were seen as a way out of the crises of a divided world. From the late 1970s, almost all political…
Manifest Destinies: The tangled history of American and Israeli exceptionalism.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Book Review: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. By Amy Kaplan Rashid Khalidi. The American publishing industry does not skimp when it comes to Israel….
Arms Manufacturers Tell Investors That Iran Tension Fuels Business
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Lee Fang. Defense executives from around the country crowded into Goldman Sachs’ glimmering tower in downtown Manhattan in mid-May, eager to present before a conference of bankers and financial analysts….
9 Easy Propaganda steps to War with Iran
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Juan Cole. The Trump administration is now in full disinformation mode, using all the classical techniques of propaganda to put the gullible US public on a war footing…
Trump and the Middle East: a Long Record of Personal Failure
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Melvin Goodman. Many American presidents have blundered in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, but Donald Trump’s personal involvement in the region has been particularly disastrous. President…
Decolonizing Justice in Tunisia From Transitional Justice to a People’s Tribunal
Friday, May 17, 2019
Corinna Mullin, Nada Trigui and Azadeh Shahshahani Building on decades of struggle, the January 2011 Tunisian uprising triggered a wave of popular revolt that spread across North Africa…
A Palestinian View Of Recent Israeli Elections
Monday, April 22, 2019
Diana Buttu and Dennis J Bernstein Without question, the reporting on recent Israeli elections was devoid of a Palestinian perspective, despite the fact that Palestinians will be deeply…
Only People Make Their Own History: Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and Revolution: Book Review
Friday, March 29, 2019
Semir Amin. Radical political economist Samir Amin (1931–2018) left behind a cherished oeuvre of Marxist writings. Amin’s intellectual range—from economics to culture—was admirable, and his lessons remain essential….