The Syrian conflict — occupation, opposition movements and regional developments — from a range of viewpoints.
Southern Lebanon has been devastated by the Israeli assault; ruins dot the county of Nabatieh. A significant aspect in the ongoing war and negotiations between the United States and Iran has been the related Israeli attack on Lebanon, whose Shia community...
R. James “Jim” Woolsey, a major Iraq and GWOT promoter and neoconservative Democrat, passed away Tuesday at 84. Woolsey served briefly as CIA director but rose to much greater prominence as a consistent promoter on television and in the Wall Street...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) expanded their raids and military operations across several areas of the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem on Monday, triggering confrontations with Palestinian residents. Clashes broke out in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil,...
Bilal Abdul Kareem has spent over a decade reporting in Syria. That Syria would be shed of fifty years of grasping control by a dictator’s family was unthinkable ten years ago, when the war that would eventually see the ouster of...
To see what even a blind person could see, takes a constant effort – George Orwell Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author of numerous books and a blog: pawelmoscicki.net...
Donald Trump is far from the first foreign ruler to come to grief after launching an ill-advised military operation against Iran. At least four Roman triumvirs and emperors, driven by hubris and ignorance, launched military attacks on Persia that ended in...
Despite being billed as a “reset” to the Gaza peace process, no major shifts emerged from the Board of Peace meetings convened in Cyprus last week. But the gathering in Larnaca — which brought together board officials and Gaza’s new technocratic...
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...
Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice to a room full...
Abu Obeida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, has applauded the Syrian citizens who confronted Israeli forces in the village of Abdin in southern Syria with simple means, describing them as “courageous people.” “They stood firm, refusing to yield to...
DAMASCUS, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces expanded their ground incursions in southern Syria over the weekend, entering several villages in western Daraa as the Israeli army claimed it had killed a number of armed men in what it calls its “security zone.” Syrian...
Where the MOU is leading to Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Kronborg Castle in Helsingor The provisional surrender document signed by Donald...
The soccer supremo has been criticised for interfering in the award of tournaments to Morocco and Saudi Arabia, as well as not banning Israel from international competition Daniel Tester is a news journalist focussed on the Middle East North Africa region Cross-posted...
In May, Turkey unveiled Yıldırımhan , its first intercontinental ballistic missile project, in a move that came as a surprise even to many in the Turkish defense community. Until then, public attention in Turkey had focused mostly on short- and...
The House Rules Committee has advanced an amendment by Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to strip $3.3 billion in funding for the Israel Defense Forces from the federal budget. That means that as early as Thursday, every member of the House will have...
Trump’s Iran deal shatters Israel’s 40-year dream of regime change. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The Iran-U.S. de-escalation framework has been signed. As always,...
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle...
History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux : Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo is in...
For decades, aid to Israel was treated as one of the most durable pillars of American foreign policy. Israel has gotten more U.S. foreign assistance than any other country since its founding, receiving more than $300 billion in inflation-adjusted economic...
Hidden under the guise of a civilian “countering disinformation” organization, British intelligence outfit MI6 has helped build a vast propaganda apparatus, leaked documents reveal. Once targeting only Russia, it has recently expanded its scope to Iran, Gaza, and beyond, as...
In between the three or more ceasefires that Israel has fractured in Lebanon this month, its military has crept forward in the country’s south, edging toward higher ground that would increase its firepower over the Nabatieh valley. Israel’s crawl uphill,...
To commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20) without confronting the American militarism driving the crisis is just plain hypocrisy. Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shows global displacement has reached record highs, with more than 117 million...
Assume, for the sake of argument, that you think the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) just signed by President Donald Trump in Versailles is a disaster for both the United States and especially for Israel. Who would you want to...
The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated ‘greater Israel’ at its head David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle...
In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
GAZA, (PIC) When the Palestinian scene is reduced to a round of aggression or breaking news, the most important element is lost: that the history of the Palestinian resistance is a long path shaped under British colonialism, deepened with the Nakba,...
Since October 2023 , Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in each of these places, preferring...
Long before today’s attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted from...
You almost never wind up where you expect to, and quite often you can’t even work out how you got there Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” For the last four years or so, strategists and...
During a panel appearance at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum last month, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack managed to anger observers in both Turkey and Israel. Israelis took umbrage at his comments that both Israel and Hezbollah are “equally untrustworthy,”...
What Nicholas Kristof left out of The New York Times. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
There is nothing Israel could do which would lead Germany to question its support for Zionism. Jurgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary Professor for the Structure of modern societies at...
Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas , the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal’s Noah Bullock. Cristosal is a key Central...
Why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Ramzy Baroud’s website Thinking Palestine For many years, being accused of being ‘pro-Iran’...
1 May 2026 Ian Proud (IP) – I was talking about the old adage that “wars are won by economies not armies”, and I think the war in Iran has slightly refined that phrase, that “wars are won by economics...
When Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, a flurry of media reports suggested that CIA-armed Kurdish forces were preparing to enter Iran and help topple the Islamic Republic. That outcome was always unlikely. Just months earlier, the...
The most explosive allegation against Israel is also the most emotionally painful one. A state founded in 1948 as a refuge for Jewish survivors of Adolf Hitler’s terror is committing genocide today, contend a range of historians, including Holocaust scholars,...
Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set the U.S. and Iran...
Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set...
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the...
In recent remarks to Fox News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to task the Lebanese army with disarming Hezbollah — an effort that could spark civil war in Lebanon. “That’s what we’re working towards establishing, is a system...
Using America’s sons and daughters to devastate the world Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army...
A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...
A long read on the consequences of the current Strait of Hormuz crisis. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Announcing that “A...
18 April 2026 On April 16, the Trump administration forced the Israeli military to cease its attacks on Lebanon as part of an agreement with Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz. This marked another victory for the Axis...
Bint Jbail, South Lebanon – Israel has announced its intent to militarily occupy South Lebanon with its eyes set on the symbolic town of Bint Jbail. In preparation for this land theft, the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah have put...
And more than just territory, it’s also a geopolitical p ower project Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, the former director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a former...
Two factors will now determine the fate of the ceasefire: what happens in Hormuz, and whether Israel continues pummelling Lebanon David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst...
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