Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? Jonathan Cook examines some common misperceptions.
Islam vs the West: 4 Fallacies Exposed
Category: Iran
Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
Ilan Pappé discusses his new book and the dynamics causing him to expect that, under a disintegrated and religious extremist Israel, the “Zionist project will collapse in front of our eyes.”
Israel: A Huge Airbase With a Small Country Attached
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Israel’s Qatar Attack Rattles the Gulf
Like its Gulf neighbors, Qatar invested in a security system premised on U.S. reliability and Israeli restraint. Both pillars have now collapsed.
West Asia is Lurching Toward War
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.
US Pressuring Lebanon to Disarm the Resistance
As Washington pushes Beirut to produce a disarmament plan, Hezbollah’s leader vows to keep “the weapons that protected our dignity,” Aseel Saleh reports.
Caitlin Johnstone: 21 Questions About Australian Claim of Iran Orchestrating Anti-Semitic Attacks
It’s hard to see how orchestrating anti-Semitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, like, say, just for example, Israel.
What the CIA’s Covert Websites Were Hiding
Alan MacLeod on Langley’s sprawling network of hidden websites that served as global spy terminals disguised as harmless blogs, news hubs and fan pages.
‘Putin Will Play Trump Like a Stradivarius’
ALASKA SUMMIT: CN Editor Joe Lauria joined Jackson Hinkle’s Legitimate Targets to discuss the Putin-Trump meeting and the Middle East.
How Palestine Action Was Banned
The discrepancy between Home Office press briefings and official intelligence reports on the direct-action group raises the prospect of a state-linked disinformation campaign, writes John McEvoy.