Category Archives: Middle East

Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation

An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.

Satyajit Das: Middle East Trajectories – Implications for the Region and Energy Markets

A refined (pun intended) discussion of the state of the energy market and the high risk of continued kinetic action between Israel and Iran.

‘Looking Backwards’ and Forward: How Democrats Who Voted for Iraq Cashed In and How It Ensured the Rise of the Imperial Uniparty

Obama’s decision to “look forward” continues to reverberate into our endless wars of the present—and future.

Rob Urie: Why Did the US Attack Iran?

Rob Urie points out that how many forces the US keeps in theater will reveal its intent with Iran: deescalating versus trying to regroup.

Israel Orders Attack on Iran After Iran Allegedly Violated Ceasefire It Never Agreed To

Israel is, or is about to be, back into the war-making game. And the US is sure to be in on the action.

Breaking: Fordow Attacked Again; Trump Talks Up Regime Change, Brays About Iran Nuclear Site Success as Israel Taking Increasing Toll from Attacks, Iran Puts Pieces in Place for Strait of Hormuz Closure; UPDATE: Iran Media Claims Attack on US Base in Syria

Iran updates, with the big underlying pressure being Israel’s decay path and US failure so far to arrest that.

Proxy Fighters in the Fog of War

Examining the potential role of Turkey, Azerbaijan and nonstate actors bordering Iran in the destabilization campaign.

US Attacks Iran: Start of a Long War? Update: Iran Parliament Votes to Close Strait of Hormuz

And so the US war against Iran begins, with showy strikes against empty nuclear facilities. What next?

Michael Hudson: Why America Is at War with Iran

The neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts

Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons

Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran

Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval

The Trump administration barrels toward U.S. intervention in Iran, with neither reality nor Congress serving as a check.

Rob Urie: As Goes Iran, So Goes Humanity

Discussing the risk of nuclear escalation in Iran.

Plans for More Intense Censorship if US Joins Israel Attack on Iran?

A Twitter post gives a credible forecast of the intensification of censorship that is in store if the US directly attacks Iran.

Laith Marouf on Iran’s Escalatory Path and Its Expectations of a Long War

Lebanon-based jouranlist Laith Marouf provides some granular detail on Iran’s and Israel’s operations and what might come next in the war

Does TACO Have Predictive Value? Pressures on Trump With Respect to Joining Israel in its Iran War

The war situation with Iran is not necessarily developing to the advantage of Israel, and Trump has to decide what to do.