Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...American air supremacy is touted as key to delivering low cost victories. It’s hasn’t been working out that way for quite a while.
Read more...A troubling internal cable signed by a host of U.S. diplomats blames Obama for not striking Syria earlier.
Read more...Wading into a dispute over Chomsky’s latest book, Who Rules the World?
Read more...Trump as a symbol of an America morphing into a visibly less democratic fading empire.
Read more...At best, the US is waging a war of attrition in the Middle East. And we ignore the fact that people in that part of the world hold grudges for centuries.
Read more...A MH17 case in Australia violates ECHR rules and has a New South Wales coroner suppressing evidence and Sky News doctoring stories post publication.
Read more...Despite his considerable flaws as a candidate, Trump is making a serious case against US policy in the Middle East.
Read more...How American intervention in the Middle East has produced a counterproductive cycle of violence.
Read more...Don’t expect any change in Saudi oil strategy any time soon.
Read more...Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...The occupation of Parliament in Iraq’s Green Zone is a secular, cross-ethnic group effort.
Read more...Victoria Nuland is leading a US effort to pressure Cyprus to accept a secret NATO plan to keep Turkish forces on the island.
Read more...Discussion of the Sadrist occupation of the Iraqi parliament building, and the implications thereof.
Read more...Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...