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World leaders condemn Trump’s Jerusalem plan
The US president's plan to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy to the city bring global disapproval, even before his...
Deconstructing Neoconservatives’ Manifesto for War With Iran
by Muhammad Sahimi
Posted on September 25, 2017
Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential campaign of 2016, he has been attacking the July 2015 agreement...
Iran’s president: both diplomacy, military power needed in face of threats
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran is seeking to solve regional problems through negotiation and not confrontation. In a live interview with Iran’s state...
Trump eyes Iran hawk to replace Tillerson
By Bryant Harris
US President Donald Trump’s reported choice to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state is an outspoken Iran hawk who has advocated...
26 Years of US-Led Wars Since the USSR Ended – We...
" ... during the past 26 years Imperial Washington has lost all memory that peace was ever possible at the end of the cold war. Today it is...
UN on Genocide in Yemen
Confidential U.N. Document Questions the Saudi Arabian Blockade That’s Starving Yemen
By Samuel Oakford
November 17 2017
A U.N. panel of experts found that Saudi Arabia is...
Israel’s Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike
The Iraq WMD fiasco wasn’t the only time political pressure twisted U.S. intelligence judgments. In 2007, Israel sold the CIA on a dubious claim...
Depressing conclusions to be drawn from the sad story of the...
What happened to Kurdish dreams of independence is a warning signal of what could happen to an Israel which relies on the world.
By Dr....
Israel Threatens with Wider War in the Middle East
Israel responds to defeat of Islamist rebels in Syria with threat of wider regional war
By Jean Shaoul
25 November 2017
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor...
A Ridiculous Hagiography of Salman by Friedman and the NY Times
Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last
The crown prince has big plans for his society.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — I never thought...