Category Archives: Middle East

As coronavirus cases explode in Iran, U.S. sanctions hinder its access to drugs and medical equipment

ISTANBUL – Sweeping U.S. sanctions are hampering Iranian efforts to import medicine and other medical supplies to confront one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, health workers and sanctions experts say. The broad U.S. restrictions on Iran’s banking … Continue reading

Posted in Disclosure, Empire, Ideaology, Iran, Middle East | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

What Trump is Doing in the Middle East While You are Distracted by COVID-19 by ROBERT FISK

And still the virus shrouds Donald Trump’s mischief in the Middle East. First it was his sly retreat from Iraq; now it’s his cosy military exercises with the United Arab Emirates – famous in song and legend as a former Saudi ally in the bloody … Continue reading

Posted in Empire, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

The Assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani by GARY LEUPP

In 2003 the U.S. committed the crime of the century, invading, destroying and occupying the modern state of Iraq, ushering in an era of misery, terror and chaos in the region. Or one could say that the invasion continued an … Continue reading

Posted in Disclosure, Empire, Ideaology, Iran, Middle East, Zionism | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

America Escalates Its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East – Michael Hudson Jan 6.2020

The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of U.S. global policy, not just … Continue reading

Posted in Disclosure, Empire, Ideaology, Iran, Islamophobia, Middle East | Leave a comment

After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger by JEFFERSON MORLEY

Last October Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, spoke openly about assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “He knows very well that his assassination is not impossible,” Cohen … Continue reading

Posted in Conspiracy, Disclosure, Empire, Ideaology, Iran, Islamophobia, Zionism | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Trump’s Evidence About Iran is “Dodgy” at Best by ROBERT FISK

The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter how much “evidence” he and his crew produce to prove that the Iranians have been trying … Continue reading

Posted in Empire, Iran | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Muslim Parties Must be Included in Arab Spring Reform By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz

The leaders of the protests in Sudan and Algeria are aware that ending their old regimes does not mean the end of political Islam. But they are not at all clear about the necessity of inclusiveness in state building. A … Continue reading

Posted in Egypt, Empire, Ideaology, Islamophobia, Libya, Middle East, Syria, Tunisia | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Behind the U.S. Labeling of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Organization by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH

It can be readily demonstrated that the proffered U.S. justifications for labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization are no more than harebrained excuses designed to put further pressure on the Iranian people in pursuit of its long-standing policy … Continue reading

Posted in Conspiracy, Empire, Ideaology, Iran | Tagged , | Leave a comment

How the Saudi Plot to Topple the Lebanese Government Backfired by ROBERT FISK

The Saudis may be holding the Lebanese Prime Minister hostage but their apparent plan to topple the Beirut government has gloriously backfired. Far from breaking up the cabinet and throwing Hezbollah’s ministers to the wolves, the Lebanese nation has suddenly … Continue reading

Posted in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Why the Anti-Corruption Drive in Saudi Arabia is Doomed to Fail by PATRICK COCKBURN

About eight or nine years ago, I had an Afghan friend who previously worked for a large US aid agency funding projects in the Afghan provinces. He had been hired to monitor their progress once work had got underway, but … Continue reading

Posted in Saudi Arabia | Tagged , , | Leave a comment