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 Israel Preparing A War On Hezbollah In Lebanon? Would Russia Expand Its Presence To South Lebanon?
Monday, August 13, 2018
Elijah J Magnier. Posted on American Herald Tribune August 13, 2018. Tension is silently mounting between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese border, where frenetic preparations are taking…
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…
‘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…
Netanyahu, Putin talk Iran before Helsinki summit
Friday, July 20, 2018
Marianna Belenkay. Posted on Al-Monitor On July 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his third visit to Russia this year to meet with President Vladimir Putin. The talks were…
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…
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 2
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Joe Hayns & Joseph Daher. Posted on RS21 May 10, 2018. This is Part 2 of an interview with Joseph Daher, on revolution and counter-revolution in Syria. In…
The Shia Shift: Why Iran and Hezbollah Abandoned Suicide attacks
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Zachary Keckand Matthew Sparks. Posted on The National Interest May 28, 2018. Thirty-five years ago last month, a Hezbollah suicide bomber drove a delivery van packed with explosives…
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…
Scourging Yemen: civilians are being punished with death
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Kathy Kelly. Posted on ZCommunications 22 May, 2018. On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that…
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…
Israel and Iran on brink of full-scale war after unprecedented Syria bombardment in response to alleged Golan Heights attack
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Bethan McKernan. Posted on the Independent 10 May 2018. Israel has launched its most intensive attack on Iranian positions in neighbouring Syria since the civil war began in 2011,…
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…
The war on Iran has begun. Russia must end it
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Dan Glazebrook. Posted on Middle East Eye, May 4, 2018. The destruction of states such as Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran is about isolating Russia when its own…
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…
The Southern Transitional Council and the War in Yemen: Consolidating Power in the Unified Southern Territories
Monday, April 30, 2018
Susanne Dahlgren Published MERIP April 26, 2018 In late January this year, an armed conflict erupted in Aden between troops under command of President ‘Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi…
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…
Systematic destruction of healthcare in Eastern Ghouta, Syria
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Posted on BMJ 28 March 2018. Systematic attacks on hospitals, patients, doctors, and civilians in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, have killed nearly 1600 civilians and resulted in the internal…
Exclusive emails show how the White Helmets tried to recruit Roger Waters with Saudi money
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Max Blumenthal. Posted on MRonline (April 22, 2018). Originally published: Gray Zone (April 19, 2018). During a Barcelona concert on April 13, Roger Waters denounced the Syrian White Helmets…
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…
Seven years after: what is next for Syria?
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Syrian playwright Mohammad Al Attar moderates a panel on seven years of the Syrian revolution featuring the great Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Thomas Pierret and Kristin Helberg. The 18th…
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…
Diplomacy, not bombing, the way to end Syria’s agony
Monday, April 16, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn. Posted on the Guardian April 15 and ZNet on April 16. These are serious times. Following the missile attacks on Syria, now is the moment for a powerful…
Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syrian Chemical Attack: Illegal and Deadly
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Marjorie Cohn. Posted on Truthout on April 12, 2018. Donald Trump says the United States is about to bomb Syria, and Russia has vowed to shoot down US…
U.S. & Israel Revving Up War Machine Won’t Help Suffering Syrian Civilians
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Glenn Greenwald. Posted on Democracy Now April 9, 2018. We begin today’s show in Syria, where Israeli F-15 bomber jets have reportedly bombed a Syrian air base used…
Iran: Triple alliance of US, Israel and Saudi Arabia piles on pressure
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Yassamine Mather. Posted on Weekly Worker no 1197, April 5, 2018. The first two weeks of the Iranian new year have been eventful times. Sections of the local…