Michael T. Klare offers an overview of oil’s enduring sway in U.S. policy in the Middle East.
The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
THE ANGRY ARAB: Maxime Rodinson & the Palestinian Question
A new book attacking the French scholar for his views on Israel and Zionism spurs As`ad AbuKhalil to provide his own assessment.
The ‘Unconstitutional Animus’ Against UK Labour Leader
Johanna Ross spoke with David Miller, a propaganda researcher, after the recent publicity of U.K. civil service murmurings about Jeremy Corbyn’s “fitness.”
Evangelical Christians Risk Setting Middle East on Fire
Jonathan Cook explains why the wave of pro-Zionist preachers taking an interest in Israel is bad news for Palestinians and loaded with ominous historic precedent.
THE ANGRY ARAB: The First Elected Egyptian President? The Death of Mohammad Morsi
There were Egyptian elections before Mohammed Morsi, who underestimated the anti-democratic impulses of Arab tyrannies, and assumed Western governments wouldn’t stand for an overthrow of a democratically-elected president.
Echoes of FDR in Trump’s Bid for Palestinian Surrender
There’s nothing new about a U.S. president assuming that Palestinians can be bribed into cooperating with Zionist ambitions, writes Lawrence Davidson.
Power Versus the Press: The Extradition Cases of Pinochet & Assange
With Julian Assange facing possible extradition from Britain to the U.S. for publishing classified secrets, Elizabeth Vos reflects on the parallel but divergent case of a notorious Chilean dictator.
Scenario Fulfillment: Why Should We Believe US on Location of Drone Shot Down By Iran?
Ann Wright recalls that a U.S. military warship shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 and Washington insisted afterwards that it was correct in doing so.
Survey: Americans Have Remarkably Ignorant Attitude Toward Nukes & North Korea
Caitlin Johnstone says the correct response to North Korea having nuclear retaliatory capability is simple: leave it alone.
Jeremy Corbyn and the UK’s Moment in History
While the media are concentrated on Tory shenanigans, Labour Party members must seize the chance to turn Corbyn’s insurgency into a decisive force, says Craig Murray.