Category Archives: Middle East

Should Markets Be Discounting Conflict?

Oil is at $100 owing to its peak production, not Ukraine, and ISIS presents the real risk.

ISIS and Iraq: The T-Shirts, the Cats, the App, the Hasbara

ISIS has mastered digital strategy. But whose strategy? And what for?

Glen Ford: ISIS Declares Caliphate as US Middle East Policy Continues to Unravel

If these jihadists are no longer controllable–and ISIS shows they are not–who are to be the foot soldiers of the United States and the Saudis in the region?