Declassify America’s Dirty Secrets in Syria to Stop a Biden War November 25, 2020 Jim Bovard urges Trump to open the files to provide activism ammo for the vast numbers of Americans who vehemently oppose forever wars. Read more →
THE ANGRY ARAB: France’s Islam Problem November 10, 2020 For Macron to speak of a “crisis in Islam” is to pass judgment on a religion of 1.5 billion people and on individual Muslims, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. Read more →
COVID-19: The City in a Time of Plague April 20, 2020 History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers, writes Pepe Escobar. Read more →
Why Congress Took 40 Years to Acknowledge Armenian Genocide March 9, 2020 Eldad Ben Aharon examines the long background to a milestone congressional vote in late 2019 that defied 40 years of precedent. Read more →
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib March 3, 2020 Turkey’s leader, who nurses dreams of some kind of neo–Ottoman restoration across the Middle East, is now on a reckless tear. Read more →
CN LIVE!: ‘Deal of the Century?’ February 7, 2020 Watch Episode 4 of Season 2 of CN Live! for a discussion of Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” and what it means for the Middle East. Read more →
Why the New Silk Roads are ‘Threat’ to US Bloc January 28, 2020 The Middle East is the key to wide-ranging, economic, interlinked integration and peace, writes Pepe Escobar. Read more →
Europe Can Do More Than Watch the Crisis in Kurdistan November 4, 2019 Short of military intervention, the EU has ways to help stabilize the region, writes Attilio Moro. Read more →
Caliph Closure: ‘He Died Like a Dog’ October 28, 2019 Trump’s victory-lap movie version buries the embarrassing story of deploying tanks to “protect” Syrian oilfields, writes Pepe Escobar. Read more →
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East October 28, 2019 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. Read more →