Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?
Why the US might be dumb enough to start a hot war with Iran.
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Will The U.S. Actively Pursue Regime Change In Iran?
The US is still awfully eager to Do Something in Iran.
Read more...‘A Reckless Advocate of Military Force’: Demands for John Bolton’s Dismissal After Reports He Asked Pentagon for Options to Strike Iran
John Bolton manages the difficult task of making me yearn for the days of Henry Kissinger.
Read more...Media’s Russia Obsession Obscures How Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Benefits Turkey Most
A dose of sanity from Patrick Cockburn on Syria.
Read more...Huawei’s Meng Snagged Due to US Bank Sanctions
More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Read more...George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...U.S. Treasury Sanctions Bitcoin Wallets For First Time
The long arm of US law reaches into bitcoin wallets.
Read more...How Trump’s Game of Chicken With Iran Could Weaken the Dollar’s Role as the World’s Currency
Politicizing the SWIFT payments system is leading other nations to the search for alternatives to the dollar.
Read more...US Policy On Iran After The Midterm Elections
A clear Senate majority gives Trump more support for playing tough with Iran. But how productive is this likely to be?
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: The Unhappy 17th Anniversary of the Afghan War
Looking back on 17 counterproductive years in Afghanistan.
Read more...Trump and Jamal Khashoggi— Saudi Arabia Has Been Bribing the US with Arms Sales for Years
An effort to put l’affaire Khashoggi in the context of the US-Saudi relationship.
Read more...How $14 Billion Private Equity Firm Abraaj Went Bust
The remarkable tale of the biggest private equity fund insolvency evah, Abraaj.
Read more...How Saudi Money Keeps the US at War in Yemen
Following the Saudi funding that has the US backing nation-breaking in Yemen.
Read more...Insider Attacks, Blowback, and a Generation of American Folly in the Middle East
Is anything the U.S. doing, anyone it is empowering or arming, likely to make the Middle East or America any safer?
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