Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tag: Middle East

Two Iraqi peace activists confront a Trumpian world

As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace.

Troika fever

So settle into your seats folks and prepare to watch the empire swallow the republic whole.

How to lobby Washington to death

A business model from hell and the war in Yemen.

Mother in “WAR”

It was way back when, right before our nation performed the most horrific act of preemptively attacking and invading Iraq... which was not only illegal,...

‘Itching for a war,’ Bolton threatens Iran with ‘unrelenting force’ as...

"Bolton wants war. He will do any provocation to get war."

Three Days of Infamy

On Monday, December 8th, 1941 FDR stood before Congress and said "December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy..." and...

The world’s most dangerous divide

If nuclear war comes, it will happen because of a calculation or miscalculation by India or Pakistan.

Is a war with Iran on the horizon?

As the Trump administration accelerates its efforts to seek a confrontation, will they find an echo among Iranian hardliners who’d like nothing more than a face-off with the United States?

A teenage war resister in Israel

An antiwar story from the embattled Middle East.

Following the foreign-policy money trail in Washington

How Middle Eastern powers fund think tanks.

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Australia becomes first country to approve psychedelics as form of medicine

Australia is reclassifying them as “controlled substances” and making them available for use in managed medical settings.

Congress has been captured by the arms industry

And what a price to pay!

How Indigenous land management practices are a blueprint for climate-resilient agriculture

As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices.

We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen

We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.

What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?

Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.