With US-backed militants having already reached the full extent of their gains on the battlefield and now […]
Iraq
The Mueller report did not find evidence that contacts between Trump campaign advisers and staff and Russians […]
Interview by Patrick Lawrence in Salon. Read Part 1 here. In part one of my exchange with Sharmine Narwani, the Beirut-based […]
Is Trump’s Designation of Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as Terrorist Organization a Set-Up for War?
With the IRGC now officially labeled a “foreign terrorist organization” by the U.S. government, the march to […]
BBC Two documentary provides a simplistic view of Tehran’s nuanced role in the Middle East Last night, […]
President Trump plugged his troop pullout from Syria in the State of the Union address, but he […]
“We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have.” — U.S. President […]
Their leadership got Iraq wrong. Now they’re making the same mistakes all over again. Earlier this week, […]
Such “lists” are about what the US wants the world to believe about itself and its adversaries. […]
Pompeo’s speech seems to have been a not-so-subtle means of putting the entire Mideast region and world […]