From the Archive: A century ago, the British-French Sykes-Picot deal carved up the Mideast, setting in motion conflicts made more complicated when Israel emerged and mastered American politics, as Morgan Strong described in 2010.
Tag: Barack Obama
Escalations in a New Cold War
Political Pressure Stymies US-Iran Ties
Donald Trump’s Unsurprising Surprise
Exclusive: Donald Trump’s ascension to the Republican presidential nomination was predictable, paved by years of right-wing fear-mongering and dissemination of anti-knowledge, says former GOP congressional staffer Mike Lofgren.
A Need to Rethink Mideast Wars
Exploiting Global Warming for Geo-Politics
America’s Two-Faced Policy on Iran
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror
A Need to Clear Up Clinton Questions
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada
Special Report: The U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a “pro-democracy” revolution battling “Russian aggression” — at least as far as the world’s mainstream media was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria.