The worst part of living this distance from reality — or maybe the best part — is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on like this.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Late–Imperial Maladies
Category: Syria
Craig Murray: This Hell
Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind.
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: What Went Wrong for Hizbullah?
The organization dubbed its 2006 triumph over Israel a “divine victory.” That may have been a mistake. Its experience in this war offers lessons.
Craig Murray: Putin Is No Hitler
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
Israel’s Threatening Colonialism
“Watching their territories being devoured” — Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries could find themselves facing the same predicament as Syria today, warns Ramzy Baroud.
Craig Murray: Islamist Resistance & Israel
Hezbollah’s ability to resist an expansionist, apartheid, Israeli, colonial project has worsened considerably in recent months. But in Beirut, Nasrallah’s funeral enjoyed a show of mass popular support.
The Chris Hedges Report: Arab Regimes & the Betrayal of Palestine
“Endemic spiritual death” — Farah El-Sharif on this time of harrowing dehumanization of Muslim communities worldwide by a global Western war of terror.
Craig Murray: UN Censures UK Abuse of Terrorism Act
The U.N. letter sitting on Keir Starmer’s desk offers a devastating critique of the U.K.’s terrorism laws and their inappropriate use to stifle dissent and freedom of expression.
Jonathan Cook: 30 Years of Middle East Lies
The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.