Iraq Moves Further Out of U.S.’s Influence With New Russia and China Deals
On Iraq’s preferential deal with China for oil output and projects.
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What Gives Israel the Right to Annihilate Gaza?
Suggesting that both sides are equally to blame in the conflict in Gaza is not a defensible position
Read more...Reports Expose US Billionaires and Corporate Profiteers Enabling Israel’s War on Gaza
The Biden administration sells genocide as a stimulus for the US economy.
Read more...U.S. Eyes Tighter Sanctions On Iran’s Oil And Gas Exports
The US again plans to deploy its favorite weapon, sanctions, againt Iran. But will the US get the cooperation it expects?
Read more...How Much of the World Will the US Burn in the Transition to Multipolarity?
Beijing asked Washington numerous times to partner in the Belt and Road Initiative. Instead the US works against it.
Read more...Here’s Why Russia Didn’t Deter or Respond to the US’ Latest Bombing of Syria
Russia is playing its cards carefully in the Middle East, as the example of the latest US bombing in Syria illustrates.
Read more...Israel’s Coming Attack on Gaza: Boundary Conditions and Delay
The press is saying a lot, and perhaps too much, about Israel’s division and dithering over Gaza. What might really be afoot?
Read more...The Humanitarian Case for Another Arab Oil Embargo
Will the Gulf States again use an oil embargo to increase leverage against the US and Israel?
Read more...Memo on the Final Solution for One State – Israel or Palestine
Why the war between Israel and Palestine is moving towards very bad outcomes.
Read more...Israel Intends to Make Gaza Uninhabitable by Cutting Power Permanently
Israel is now making no bones about the fact that it intends to make it impossible for humans, as in Palestinians, to live in Gaza.
Read more...Russia, China Unite Against US Empire
Michael Hudson on China’s wobbles, Russia-China cooperation, the revolt against colonialism and neoliberalism, and the conflict in Gaza.
Read more...The Explosion of Israel’s Formaldehyde Strategy in Gaza
There can be no peace in Palestine without justice, which means Israel’s policy of disengagement, brutal apartheid, and occupation must end.
Read more...The British Roots of the Conflict in Palestine
How the British set up and fed strife between Israeli and Palestine.
Read more...Iran Calls For Middle East States to Start Economic Escalation Via Oil Embargo On Israel
An oil embargo against Israel looks unlikely to have much economic impact but it could promote other Middle Eastern joint action.
Read more...Biden Gets Zelensky Treatment in Middle East as Israel Tries to Escalate
The Israel shelling of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza was an escalation too far. But that does not mean Israel or the US will put on the brakes
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