Middle East 4 ChangeNo 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…
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…
World trade and imperialism
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Michael Roberts. Blog posted on July 30, 2018. There is a new dataset on world trade that looks at changes in exports and imports globally going back to…
‘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…
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…
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)…
Sisi holds key to Trump’s Sinai plan for Palestinians
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on Middle East Eye July 5, 2018. Israel and the US are in a race against time with Gaza. The conundrum is stark: how to…
Iran’s Labor Protests/strikes, Revolutionary Socialist Direction and International Solidarity
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Frieda Afary. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists June 13, 2018. Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of international labor activists on…
‘The growth of right-wing forces is ominous’: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. Posted on Frontline June 22, 2018. NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY is one of the greatest intellectuals in modern times. For the past six decades…
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…
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…
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 1
Friday, May 25, 2018
Joe Hayns. Posted on Revolutionary Socialism April 27, 2018. Last summer, in Rabat, a friend explained the Syrian families begging from the passing crowds, five minutes from Parliament,…
Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on ZCommunications May 23, 2018. 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed…
The Syrian Revolution and the Emancipation of Palestinians and Kurds: Interview with Joseph Daher
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Joseph Daher and Ela Liberta. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists May 19, 2018. Below, we reprint an interview which the Greek socialist collective Ela Liberta conducted…
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Henry Siegman. Published in London Review of Books volume 40 number 10. During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using high-powered rifles and live…
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…
Revolution or Decadence? Thoughts on the Transition between Modes of Production on the Occasion of the Marx Bicentennial
Monday, May 7, 2018
Samir Amin. Posted on Monthly Review May 01, 2018. Introduction Karl Marx is a giant thinker, not just for the nineteenth century, but even more for understanding our…
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Counterpunch April 30, 2018. As a journalist, I have always dreaded reporting on meetings between world leaders billed as “historic” or “momentous” or just…
Israel vs Iran, a looming war
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Paul Rogers. Posted on Open Democracy April 26, 2018. The joint cruise-missile attack on Syria by forces of the United States, France and the United Kingdom on the…
Doubts, law and grand strategy: preparation for regime change in Iran
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Yassamine Mather Posted on Weekly Worker issue 1199, April 19, 2o18. Behind the cruise missile strikes in Syria lies the plan to bring about regime change in Iran…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Monday, April 23, 2018
The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create…
Misrule of global capitalism: Book review
Friday, April 20, 2018
Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis, Dale L. Johnson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 240 pp. $159. Published on New Politics volume 16, number 4, 2017. Reviewed…
Open Letter from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists to Iranian labor Unions
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Posted on Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists April 15, 2018. Currently, the military interventions of the Islamic Republic in the region and especially in Syria have become so…