Nothing exists in a vacuum. This is especially true when trying to understand the Middle East. There is no event that happens in this region that isn’t related to its overall direction. The recent clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be read in that light. When asked to explain what is happening between these two […]
Read more...As US Zionist plans progress in the Levant, what’s happening at another point in the Iran pressure campaign in the Caucasus?
Read more...Israel has used the US, or vice versa, to subdue the neighborhood via aggressive air campaigns. But is that sustainable?
Read more...US-Turkish-Israeli Axis remains intact and with Syria as takfiri staging ground aims to spread chaos to Lebanon, Iraq, and ultimately Iran.
Read more...Why the UN should not sit back during the current Israel-Palestine negotiations headfake but should take specific steps to support Palestine.
Read more...The Trump administration makes universities an offer they can’t refuse: screen out applicants who demonstrate “hostility to American values”—or else.
Read more...Trump may be launching not just one but two wars right after he and Hegseth proudly exhibited their nakedness before the military top brass.
Read more...Israel has captured some of the courageous passengers and crew of the Gaza relief ship Sumud. They will be tortured.
Read more...A terse takedown of the latest Trump bright idea, of trying to retake the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Read more...Examining one case of how US-sponsored peace deals spread more chaos. Is it simply Trump or a State Department feature, not a bug?
Read more...Discussions of how BRICS is not living up to its lofty promises and is on the path to supporting neoliberalism and hegemony in new clothes
Read more...It’s a cruel irony that Qatar has been bombed twice in the last three months by two sworn enemies, first by Iran and then by Israel. Neither has received kinetic retaliation from the very power supposedly guaranteeing Qatar’s security: the U.S. This signals a shift in the world order that Israel has already understood, but […]
Read more...Netanyahu really did admit Israel is on the ropes economicaly, even though he then tried to walk it back. What might have been the prompt?
Read more...As the war of words escalates between Türkiye and Israel, cooperation remains steady as ever. Is that about to change or is the friction largely theater as Israel preps for another go at regime change in Iran?
Read more...A new power system has emerged with the alliance among Washington, Tel Aviv, and Silicon Valley: the military-digital complex, and Gaza is its testing ground.
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