Middle East 4 Change9 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…
Threat of war in the Middle East is real
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Yassamine Mather. A common question journalists ask these days – if they are not asking about Brexit – is ‘Will there be a war against Iran?’ and, if…
Will Iran Be Forced To Close the Strait Of Hormuz? Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Monday, May 6, 2019
Vincent Lofazo. With the United States strangling Iran’s oil exports, Iran threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. On…
Women and the War in Yemen: Actors or Victims?
Sunday, May 5, 2019
In most conflicts, women are grouped with children; they are categorized among the most vulnerable groups. This designation erases, in many cases, women who are engaged in the…
Don’t believe the hype, Isis has not yet been defeated
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Robert Fisk. After all the headlines about the supposed defeat of Isis, anyone who doesn’t believe a word of it may seem a bit of a spoilsport. But whenever…
Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Bob Dreyfuss. Here’s the foreign policy question of questions in 2019: Are President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all…
Palestine on a Precipice
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Toufic Haddad The rise and expansion of right-wing populism and the dramatic unfolding of global politics in the Trump era have had significant and alarming implications for the…
Untangling The Web Of The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran
Monday, February 11, 2019
Behnam Gharagozli. Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,…
Edging Toward War With Iran?
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Conn Hallinan. Keeping track of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to track a cat on a hot tin roof: We’re pulling out of Syria (not…
Defying War and Defining Peace in Afghanistan
Friday, February 1, 2019
Kathy Kelly. On January 27th, 2019, the Taliban and the U.S. government each publicly stated acceptance, in principle, of a draft framework for ongoing negotiations that could culminate…
How the Assad regime has exploited “evacuation deals” to redirect Isis against the rebels
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Omar Sabbour. In September 2018, when the Assad regime was preparing to launch its (now on-hold) offensive against rebel-held Idlib in northern Syria, a rather surprising report emerged in the…
The Attack on Iran that Wasn’t
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Shemuel Meir The title of Ehud Barak’s recently published autobiography My Country, My Life declares that it is a book not just about Barak’s life, but also a…
Yemen war: At least six times as many killed in conflict than previously thought
Friday, January 4, 2019
Patrick Cockburn The number of people killed by the violence in Yemen has for the first time risen above 3,000 dead in a single month, bringing the total…
Syrian army says it has entered key city of Manbij after appeal from Kurdish fighters
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Bianca Britton and Gul Tuysuz. Syria’s army said Friday it had entered the northern city of Manbij for the first time in years after Kurdish fighters called on…
The Bombings Will Continue: Phyllis Bennis Warns U.S. Military Role in Syria Is Not Actually Ending
Friday, December 21, 2018
President Trump has announced that the U.S. will withdraw troops from Syria, in a move that has been praised by some in the American peace movement and some…
Saudi Crown Prince MbS Tries to Restart the Lebanese War
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Paul R Pillar. The record of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) as de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia has included a trail of regional destabilization. Foremost on…
Cancer as Weapon: Poppy Bush’s Radioactive War on Iraq
Monday, December 10, 2018
Jeffrey St. Claire. At the close of the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was denounced as a ferocious villain for ordering his retreating troops to destroy Kuwaiti oil…
Cost 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…
Trump Administration Ramps Up Threats Against Iran
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Marjorie Cohn. The alleged torture, murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, widely believed to have been carried out on orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, may…
Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi- Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi. Sectarian conflict has been on the rise in the Middle East in recent years. From the catastrophic wars in Syria and Yemen to…
Gaza’s economy goes into freefall: World Bank
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications October 2, 2018. The moment long feared is fast approaching in Gaza, according to a new report by the World Bank. After a…
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…
Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Rajan Menon. Posted on TomDispatch and CounterPunch September 20, 2018. It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with…
Iran missile strike opens door to escalation with Kurdish armed groups
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Fazel Hawramy. Posted on Al-Monitor Sept 14, 2018. The patience of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) with Iranian Kurdish groups operating from northern Iraq was wearing thin. Spiraling…
The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu: Book Review
Friday, September 7, 2018
Adam Shatz. Posted on London Review of Books vol 40 no 16, August 30 2018. Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer, Hurst, 423 pp,…
Lebanon is on a tightrope, balancing the Saudis, Iran and the West
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Robert Fisk. Posted on Zcommunications and the Independent September 4, 2018. Facing possible invasion from both Britain and Germany in 1940 and determined to remain neutral, the Irish government in Dublin asked one of…
Squeezing Iran: Part 1, Trump’s project in the Middle East
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Interview with Ardeshir Mehrdad. Mehdi Kia: The last few weeks has seen an escalation of US pressures on an Iran already reeling under economic and political crisis and…
A Short History of Collective Punishment: From the British Empire to Gaza
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Stanley L Cohn. Posted on Counterpunch August 24, 2018. As old as war itself, collective punishment has long been the most damning and destructive weapon of all. Not…
Iran Is Throwing a Tantrum but Wants a Deal
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Dennis Ross. Posted on Washington Institute August 15, 2108. Defiant warnings aside, Tehran will eventually negotiate with President Trump—as long as Vladimir Putin mediates. Even in its afterlife,…
No 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…