Coercive might and money may be all that matter in Manhattan real estate. But they are bound to sink the president’s take-all-you-want “deal of the century” for Israel.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Weakness for Power
Category: International News Analysis
Trump’s Bantustan-Lite Palestine Plan Shows the ‘Two State’ Solution Was Always a Lie
Trump’s “peace deal” for Israel is ludicrously one-sided and reads as pure, unadulterated zionist propaganda, writes Craig Murray.
UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess
As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone.
Democrats Let Trump Off the Hook on Iran
Party leaders did not challenge the president’s decision to once again have the U.S. dictate behavior to the rest of the world, writes Jeff Faux.
Misreading Victory: US After the Cold War
Andrew Bacevich highlights some of the world-shaping developments that Washington policy elites overlooked back in 1989, when the U.S. was intoxicated by a belief in its own omnipotence.
The Economic Risks of Trump’s Reckless Assassination
If Tehran ever decided to shut down the Strait of Hormuz it would trigger a global depression, writes Pepe Escobar.
PEPE ESCOBAR: US Kick Starts Raging ’20s Declaring War on Iran
Iraq is the preferred battleground of a proxy war against Iran that may now metastasize into hot war, with devastating consequences.
More Austerity for Developing Countries: It’s Bad News, and It’s Avoidable
As the West questions damaging austerity policies, it is becoming the new normal for the rest of the world, write Isabel Ortiz and Thomas Stubbs.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East
Despite the high-speed impression created by events in the past few weeks, the shifting trends of Russian and U.S. influence on the region have been underway for years.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Trump & the Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria
As`ad AbuKhalil dissects the false U.S. show of humanitarian concern for people in Syria — Arab or Kurdish.