A Twentieth Year Written in Rubble and Resolve
Posted by Joshua Scheer What does it mean to come of age inside a genocide? In Gaza, where childhoods are cut short and futures are forced into suspension, turning twenty…
Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide
by Kurniawan Arif Maspu Middle East Monitor Francesca Albanese has become one of the most polarising figures in contemporary diplomacy, not because she commands armies or signs treaties, but because…
The World This Week — Ray McGovern on War, Resistance & Ruling‑Class Panic
Posted by Joshua Scheer In case you missed it, our friends at Consortium News brought together three wise men for a wide‑ranging livestream on the state of world affairs—from the…
Jeffrey Sachs: Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the US finally seize it?
Western Intelligence Lawfare Op Plotted Illegal Sting on EU Fraud Office, Leaks Reveal
After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the group sought to penetrate and…
The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated
By Ramzy Baroud for the Middle East Monitor The architecture of extermination: Why the Gaza genocide is premeditated and repeatableSuppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel…
Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up
By International Middle East Media Center Israeli occupation forces continued to breach the ceasefire agreement on Friday and Saturday, carrying out new airstrikes, artillery fire, and machine‑gun attacks across several…
The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Back in 2004, in an interview with one of our foremost journalists of the Middle East, Robin Wright, Jordan’s King Abdullah II complained as…
From Zohr to Leviathan: How Israel turned Egypt’s gas dreams into a pipeline for dependency
By The Cradle’s Egypt Correspondent Over the past decade, Egypt’s natural gas sector has shifted from a symbol of self-sufficiency and export ambition to a glaring indictment of the country’s…
Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…
The Last Thing Iraq Needs: US Sanctions Threaten a Nation Trying to Heal
Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq By Nancy Mancias shared by Codepink I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad’s Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from…
Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions
By Mehmet Rakipoglu Published for the Informed Comment Blog The Arab revolutionary wave that began in 2011 presents two of its most significant, yet fundamentally divergent, case studies: Egypt and…
Donald Trump Not Invited to Dick Cheney’s Funeral But Look Who Did Show Up
By Joshua Scheer Can you think of no greater honor than to be snubed by this family and this man? For me, the moment Kamala Harris embraced Dick Cheney was…
Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in Return for an Unlikely $1 Trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies
Trump nevertheless proclaimed his friendship for Bin Salman and praised him for having pledged $600 billion in Saudi investments in the United States over four years.
Patrick Lawrence: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands…