Tag: middle east politics
If It’s Going to Push Us to War, Is It Time...
On whose behalf is AIPAC intervening in American domestic politics? Juan Cole discusses the only logical possibility, which is that AIPAC is acting on behalf of the Likud government of Israel.
How Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Came Back in the Syrian Civil War...
There is a maintained fiction that the U.S.' 2014 bombing raids against Daesh and al-Qaeda do not help the regime, but rather the moderate rebels. In actuality, they help the regime.
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Chauvin is currently serving 22½ years in state prison for killing George Floyd. He pleaded not guilty.
America: Monumental problems, no solutions, caught up in a state of regression
“All empires end. That is an indisputable fact.” And, “All empires end from within.”
Until comeuppance smacks Trumpist scofflaws, brace for more lying, cheating & demagoguery
Why enter elections when starting insurrections are so much easier? Why “patronize” elections that are “corrupt” (thus unwinnable) from beginning to end?
Favorite son? Eduardo Bolsonaro and the growing internationalism of the far right
One of the progressive left’s strengths has always been a willingness to offer support and learn from others around the globe, it's a mistake to cede internationalism to a xenophobic, ‘western culture’ obsessed right.
Ethiopia: TPLF terrorism expands, civilians massacred
The conflict in Ethiopia is getting predictably more brutal. Distressing.