Middle East 4 ChangeCost of war-on-terror
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Neta Crawford, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Nearly half a million people have died from violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan since George W. Bush declared a “war…
Turkey: A vindictive and pitiless regime
Monday, October 1, 2018
Esen Uslu. The Turkish army of the modern republican era has never withdrawn from any piece of land it has occupied on whatever pretext. A former British army…
‘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…
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…
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…
The Smart Weapons Fallacy: Civilian Casualties From “Precision” Air Strikes in Iraq and Syria
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Counterpunch December 4, 2017. The final elimination of Isis in Iraq and Syria is close, but welcome though the defeat of these monstrous movements may be, it has…
Book review: War of All Against All
Friday, November 24, 2017
Lindsey Hilsom Posted on New York Review of Books, 23 November 2017 The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, with a foreword…
Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Jean-Marie Guéhenno. Published in Foreign Policy . The world is entering its most dangerous chapter in decades. The sharp uptick in war over recent years is outstripping our…
US Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Want Blank Check to Wage Illegal War
Monday, November 20, 2017
Marjorie Cohn. Published with permission from Truthout, November 4, 2017. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October…
Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria: Interview with Yassin al-Haj Salah
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith. Posted on International Socialist Review, Issue 107 Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the pivotal figures in the Syrian Revolution. He…
Afghanistan: As US Empire Fails, Trump Enters a Quagmire
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Kevin Zeese. First published by Counterpunch on August 29, 2017. A quagmire is defined as a complex or unpleasant position that is difficult to escape. President Trump’s recently announced…
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State: Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Alfred McCoy. First published on TomDispatch.com on August 24, 2017. [This piece has been adapted and expanded from the introduction to Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the…
With the imminent defeat of ISIS in Syria Russia re-examines relationship with Iran
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Anton Mardasov. Posted on Al-Monitor on August 14, 2017. As the Islamic State (IS) has been in steady retreat, Iran and Russia are facing real difficulties sustaining their…
Mosul: Oppression from all sides
Monday, August 14, 2017
Haifa Zangana, First posted on Weekly Worker on 10th August 2017. Firstly, a few words about the recent history of Mosul, so we can understand the context of…
How the Pentagon Views the World Situation
Monday, August 7, 2017
Michael Pröbsting and Almedina Gunić. Posted on Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 25 July 2017. The Pentagon recently published a major study reflecting how US imperialism views its own…
Assange: ‘CIA Not Only Armed Syrian Terrorists – It Paid Their Salaries’
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Chis Menahan, Posted on Information Clearing House, July 23, 2017. Saturday on Twitter, Assange highlighted an article from Thursday where the Financial Times noted how many Syrian rebels…
A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
Monday, July 31, 2017
Patrick Cockburn. First posted on Counterpunch on July 24, 2017. The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in…
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
Thursday, July 27, 2017
John Dower. Posted on TomDispatch on May 17, 2017. World War II marked the apogee of industrialized “total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe….
Five Reasons America Should Not Fight Iran, Russia and Assad in Syria
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Richard Sokolsky and Aaron Miller. This article was first posted on Carnagie Endowment for International Peace on June 27, 2017. The idea du jour circulating inside the Trump administration and…
The Baghdad Road: eyewitness in Mosul
Friday, June 9, 2017
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. This article frist appeared on London Review of Books volume 39, number9, May 5, 2017. On the morning of 5 March a group of soldiers belonging…
Don’t Go to the Doctor: The absurdities of the Prevent anti-terrorism program
Friday, May 26, 2017
Karma Nabulsi, London Review of Books. This essay appeared on LRB volume 39, May 18 2017. A colleague of mine at Oxford was asked to see an undergraduate…
Iraq: US military admits failures to monitor over $1 billion worth of arms transfers
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Posted Amnesty International May 24, 2017. The US Army failed to keep tabs on more than $1 billion worth of arms and other military equipment in Iraq and…
Alliance of Syrian & Iranian Socialists’ Statement on Assad’s Chemical Bombing & Trump’s Latest Airstrikes
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Joseph Daher and Frieda Afary. The Trump administration’s April 6 targeted missile strike on the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched, is not a reflection…
Pseudo-left endorses imperialist onslaught against Syria
Monday, April 24, 2017
Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site. First posted on WSWS on April 11, 2107. Nearly 16 years after the beginning of the “war on terror” and more than…
The Menace of Trump and the New Authoritarianism: An Interview With Henry Giroux
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Joan Pedro-Carañana, Truthout. Trump’s brand of populism and politics are a tragedy for democracy and a triumph for authoritarianism. Using manipulation, misrepresentation and a discourse of hate, he…
Is Trump Rescuing Al-Qaeda’s ‘Heartland’ in Syria?
Monday, April 17, 2017
Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, AlterNet. After formally calling off the longstanding U.S. policy of regime change in Syria, the Trump administration is sending signals of shifting its Syria…
In Syria, civilian lives don’t matter
Friday, April 7, 2017
Leila Al Shami, Leila’s blog. Originally published at Hummus for Thought and Leila’s blog. Since Trump came to power there has been a marked escalation of the US…
The most expensive weapon ever built
Friday, March 24, 2017
Daniel Soar, London Review of Books. On the night of 12 January, there was a series of explosions at Mezzeh military airport on the outskirts of Damascus. A…
Iraq and beyond: hidden, secret wars from air, land and drone
Friday, March 17, 2017
Paul Rogers. This report first appeared in Open Democracy on March 10, 2017 The west’s military focus has shifted towards covert use of special forces. Both the human…
Will the re-launch of the Mosul battle by the Iraqi PM reverse Trump’s hostile stance?
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Zaid Alisa, Open Democracy. This article first appeared in Open Democracy on March 10, 2017. The highly unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections sent…