Tag: Middle East

  • Modern Day Israel: A Poisonous Concoction for Most Outsiders

    Modern Day Israel: A Poisonous Concoction for Most Outsiders

    Think of modern day Israel as a bowl filled with a mixture of ingredients, a few complementary, like salt and pepper. Other ingredients, however, like the intermingling of Zionism and Talmudic Judaism, while favorable to many family members who grew up among its ranks, it proves unpalatable for most outsiders. Mixed together, the concoction grows […]

  • Middle East Danger Zones: A 2026 Update

    Middle East Danger Zones: A 2026 Update

    Danger Zones In February 2026, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, kickstarting a new Middle East ‘energy conflict’. And like most energy conflicts over the past half century, this one too began after the region fell into a ‘danger zone’. The notion of a danger zone was first introduced in our paper, ‘Bringing Capital […]

  • Left response to antisemitism should be to call for BDS

    There’s been much debate on the left around the world about how best to respond to what appears to be rising antisemitism. What, if anything, is the best response? Some argue, mostly correctly, that raising the subject amidst Israel’s genocide in Gaza, bombing many of its neighbours, etc., is an attempt to deflect attention away […]

  • Endless War on Iran Has Numbered Days

    Re-creation of an American foreign policy tactic, “We have to kill them in order to save them,” sheds a dark light on the executive leadership that guides foreign policies and on the political commentators who inform Americans of the policies. The U.S. government released its assessment of why Iran must be pulverized into the Stone […]

  • Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East

    The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and 30 percent of the world’s LNG. A sustained closure of the Strait would trigger an energy shock without […]

  • Former U.S. Military Chief of Staff Blasts U.S. War Crimes in Middle East

    Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said on the independent news channel Democracy Now! that the current U.S. administration, in a matter of days, has committed war crimes in Iran on a scale he has not seen in his lifetime. He told viewers that, not for the first time, the U.S. had initiated an illegal war, violated […]

  • Europe’s Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity

    When Israeli forces bombed Iran in June 2025, German Chancellor Merz praised them for doing “the dirty work for all of us.” His statement exposes the roots of Europe’s military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide and regional aggression. To sustain their “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European governments are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. […]

  • Last Frontier for US-Israel World Hegemony

    The goal of US-Israel is to wipe out the ‘Shia axis’, Israel’s only real barrier to seizing all Arab lands ‘from the river [Nile] to the [Arabian sea]’. All the Arab stateS except Ansar Allah’s Yemen are what we can call Arab Zionists, i.e., subservient to Israel. In a sense Israel already has hegemony over […]

  • This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is Also an Assault on the United Nations

    Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail. On February 16, 2026, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) […]

  • Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar

    Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s not marvellous. But another fiction came into play towards the end of February as the United States and Israel reprised their role as world […]

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