Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Tag: Middle East

The challenges and strengths of Palestine’s ‘orchestra’ of civil resistance

How can your way of participating in a movement confront rather than reinforce the patterns of privilege and oppression that already exist between these identity groups?

America at war since 9/11

Reality or reality TV?

The Libya connection

Although the conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria have usually been described as civil wars, these theaters have been invaded by large numbers of foreigners, inevitably followed by the air-forces of Western and other countries.

Destabilizing the Middle East (yet more)

The Saudi Regime is playing Donald Trump with potentially disastrous consequences.

Where have all the children gone?

The loss of childhood and the cruel removal of any sense of hope or of a secure future have been seeping into global discourse about children for many years now.

The Qatar crack-up

Those who called the President’s stop in Riyadh a success may have been premature in their assessment.

The U.S. and Turkey are deeply divided over Syria policy

Can Trump get his magpie mind around the complexities of Syria?

10 reasons Trump should not strengthen U.S.-Saudi ties

If the Trump administration truly wants to find a way out of the wars in the Middle East and make the United States safer from terrorists, it would do well to stop arming, aiding and abetting the ruthless Saudi regime.

Mosul on my mind

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.

The myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria

They aren't moderate, they aren't Syrian, and they aren't rebels.

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