Category Archives: Middle East

BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges

BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?

China And Russia Execute A Pincer Movement Around Iraq’s Biggest Oil Assets

China and Russia oil plays in and around Iraq provide further evidence that the US has lost its touch in the hegemony game.

Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS

ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.

The Road That Could Ignite a War in the Caucasus

Armenia and Azerbaijan are on the verge of another war – one that would suck in outside actors like Turkiye, Iran, Israel, India, and of course, Uncle Sam.

Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks

A supposedly good economy has not helped Biden much and trends such as oil prices do not look to be in his favor.

Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl

Juan Cole examines the US climate change crimes against Iraq and how the neocon’s destructive foreign adventures are increasingly as if the US is invading itself.

Turkiye Refuses to Back Down on Sweden Accession Ahead of NATO Summit

Will the West give Erdogan what he wants?

The War on Terror’s Lingering Pain

The war on terror’s high costs are buried in the US.

Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

The ranks of Ukraine and US hegemony believers are starting to thin. But not soon enough.

What Does Erdogan’s Reelection Mean for the New Cold War?

With nationalists empowered in parliament and the West all but certain to keep up the with-us-or-against-us pressure, Turkiye moving closer to the East appears more likely.

China and the Revenge of the Sanctioned

How US ham-handed use of force and misreadings of key players’ interests, allowed China to suddenly take a leadershp role in the Middle East

Is The U.S. Preparing To Punish OPEC?

Has the US still not worked out that there are some parties it can’t push around, and OPEC might be one of them?

‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million

A new study tallies the cost of US war-fomenting in the Middle East. The numbers get big fast.

The Taliban and the Islamic State Continue to Fight for Afghanistan’s Future

True to form for US nation-breaking exercises, Afghanistan is afficted by continuing facional power strugges.

Can the US Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?

The US channels Nora Desmond.