How the Americans and the British “tortured some folks” and got away with it, as Annie Machon explains.
Category: Middle East
‘The Everyday Process of Ethnic Cleansing’
Palestinians protesting at the Gaza fence posed no threat whatsoever and even if they were trying to cross the border, you don’t use live fire to kill them, says Diana Buttu in this inerview with Dennis J. Bernstein.
The Rebuilding of Syria
The (Unrecognized) US Contribution to Bloodshed in Syria, Part Two
U.S. Media Whitewashes Gaza Massacre
As Israel killed more than 50 Palestinians in cold blood protesting the American embassy move on Monday, U.S. corporate media failed to accurately report what happened in Gaza, once again meekly protecting the government line, argues Joe Lauria.
The EU Will Not Stand by Iran
While European leaders have made noises that they will defy Donald Trump’s reneging on the Iran nuclear deal and resist U.S. sanctions, in the end the Europeans will give in to U.S., argues Alexander Mercouris in this commentary.
Trump’s War Against Iran
An apparent coordination between Trump leaving the Iran deal and Israeli attacks on Iranian targets in Syria portend an attack on Iran itself, says Eric S. Margolis.
Trump’s Iran Debacle: What Will Germany and Russia Do?
Iran Deal Partners Mull How to Confront ‘Renegade’ U.S.
The Coming War Against Iran
We’ve been through this before: the trumped-up threat from Iraq based on false evidence in 2003 is the harrowingly similar model to what is emerging for Iran in 2018, argues John Kiriakou.