Saudi-Iran Deal a Possible US ‘Suez Moment’
The U.S. does not want to experience what Britain experienced in Suez in 1956: a watershed moment signaling its global decline.
Earthquake Leaves Millions Homeless and Without Water and Electricity in Turkish, Syrian Harsh Winter, Many Facing Death
By Juan Cole / Informed Consent Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports that on top of the now nearly 30,000 known deaths in Turkey and Syria,…
Xi’s Visit and the Future of the Middle East: What Does China Want From the Arabs
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch The problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are of direct…
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as…
Biden Falsely Claims US Troops Aren’t Engaged in Combat in the Middle East
The president made the claim in an op-ed on his upcoming trip to the region.
The Angry Arab: Iran Losing Info War
The repercussions of the open sectarian war sparked by the U.S. invasion of Iraq can still be felt throughout the region, says As`ad AbuKhalil, partly because of Iran’s inaction.