Middle East

A Dubious Official Story Masks The True Motives Behind The Soleimani Assassination

January 6, 2020 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

BAGHDAD — The recent assassination of Iran’s most popular and well-known general, Qassem Soleimani, has stoked fears that a new war pitting the U.S. and its allies against Iran could soon become a devastating and deadly reality. The airstrike that killed Soleimani, conducted by the U.S. in Baghdad, was conducted without the authorization or even prior notification of the U.S. Congress and without the approval of Iraq’s government or military, making the attack flagrantly illegal on multiple levels.

The Soleimani Assassination: The Long-Awaited Beginning Of The End Of America’s Imperial Ambitions

January 4, 2020 By Philip Giraldi, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East, US Imperialism

The United States is now at war with Iran in a conflict that could easily have been avoided and it will not end well. There will be no declaration of war coming from either side, but the assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah Abu Mehdi Muhandis by virtue of a Reaper drone strike in Baghdad will shift the long-simmering conflict between the two nations into high gear. Iran cannot let the killing of a senior military officer go unanswered even though it cannot directly confront the United States militarily.

After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent Of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent “Suffering”

January 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Occupation, US Imperialism

Since the 2001 occupation of Afghanistan began, fighting has not stopped, destroying the country and leading to the U.S. spending an estimated $2 trillion on the war. American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to rate their life out of a score of ten, Afghans gave an average answer of 2.7, a record low for any country studied. Worse still, when asked to predict the quality of their life in five years, the average answer was even lower: 2.3.

Response To US Strikes: A United Opposition To Occupation Of Iraq

January 3, 2020 By Julia Kassem, Ahtribune.com Resist! Airstrikes, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

US airstrikes Sunday targeted locations in Anbar, Iraq, as well as four other locations in Iraq and Syria. The attacks targeted a Katai’b Hezbollah military site, killing 27 and injuring 51. The Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah, a paramilitary group part of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) umbrella group, was one of the popular grassroots militias that played a major role in fighting ISIS in Iraq after the PMU’s formation in 2014. According to the US, the strikes were in response to attacks near US military bases over the past couple months.

Who Is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, And Why Does Israel Hate Him?

January 3, 2020 Ramzy Baroud, Ramzybaroud.net Resist! Israel, Middle East, Religion

“They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle years, has come to represent the unified voice of the Palestinian Christian community everywhere. One of the main advocates of Kairos Palestine is Archbishop Atallah Hanna.

Peace And The Withdrawal Of American Soldiers From Afghanistan Put On Hold

January 2, 2020 By Vladimir Odintsov, Journal-neo.org Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US military

According to Hawa Alam Nuristani, Chairwoman of the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan, the current president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, came first in the country’s presidential election in late September, gaining 50.64% of the vote. Meanwhile the media previously reported that the campaign team of another presidential candidate, the country’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, filed over 4,000 complaints about the preliminary results of the election. According to a number of experts...

Washington Escalates Mideast War Threat With Strikes On Iraq, Syria

January 2, 2020 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Airstrikes, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, US Imperialism

A wave of US airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria Sunday linked to elements branded by Washington as Iranian “proxies” has sharply escalated the threat of a direct military confrontation between the US and Iran. Targeted in Sunday’s attacks were bases of Kata’ib Hizbullah, an Iraqi Shia militia that the Trump administration has blamed for a series of mortar and rocket attacks on bases in Iraq where US troops are stationed. These attacks allegedly culminated Friday in the launching of 30 Katyusha rockets against an army base near the northern Iraqi city...

After U.S. Strike On Iraqi Forces Its Troops Will (Again) Have To Leave

January 2, 2020 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Resist! Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

On Friday a volley of some 30 107mm Katyusha rockets hit the K1 base which houses Iraqi and U.S. troops near Kirkuk, Iraq. One U.S. mercenary/contractor died, two Iraqi and four U.S. soldiers were wounded. Instead of finding the real culprits - ISIS remnants, disgruntled locals, Kurds who want to regain control over Kirkuk - the U.S. decided that Kata'ib Hizbullah was the group guilty of the attack.

Baghdad Demonstrators Demand ‘U.S. Out Of Iraq!’

January 2, 2020 Mazda Majidi, Liberationnews.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, Protest Demonstrations, US Imperialism

On Dec. 31, hundreds of people protested at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, demanding an end to U.S. intervention in Iraq. As the protest went on for hours, dozens of the protesters managed to break into the main gate, go in, and set the main reception area on fire. Embassy officials frantically asked the Iraqi government for help. Shots were fired and several people were injured, but no deaths have, as of this writing, been reported in the incident.

Top Syrian Official Says US Has ‘Absolutely No Right’ To Occupy Or Plunder Nation’s Oil Fields

December 27, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria

Citing U.S. President Donald Trump's openly stated plan to maintain a troop presence in Syria with the sole purpose of plundering the country's oil reserves, a top Syrian government official said America has "absolutely no right" to the nation's natural resources and warned of "popular opposition and operations" against foreign occupiers. "It is our oil," Bouthaina Shaaban, a political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told NBC News in an interview Tuesday. "He's talking about stealing it," Shaaban said of Trump.

US Military Convoy Enters Oil Fields In Northeast Syria

December 21, 2019 Staff, Presstv.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Syria, US military

The United States sent new deployments to the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Dayr al-Zawr from neighboring Iraq on Sunday, according to the state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV. The US vehicles were carrying logistical equipment that would be provided to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish militant group, in the eastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr. Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said the convoy contained 4x4 pickups, ambulances, minibuses and 100 rigs filled with fuel oil.

The Real Lesson Of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work

December 21, 2019 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Nationofchange.org Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Regime Change

The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The “Lessons Learned” papers, however, are based on the premise that the U.S. and its allies will keep intervening militarily in other countries, and that they must, therefore, learn the lessons of Afghanistan to avoid making the same mistakes in future military occupations.

Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role In Spreading Official Lies

December 20, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US Imperialism

The Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” (12/9/19) unveiled over 2,000 pages of unpublished notes of interviews with US officials involved in the Afghanistan War, from a project led by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) to investigate waste and fraud. Hailed by some as the “Pentagon Papers of Our Generation” after the Post won access to those documents under the Freedom of Information Act in a three-year legal battle, the Post’s exposé found that...

The Bi-Partisan War Against The Palestinian Solidarity Movement

December 17, 2019 By Michael Arria, Mondoweiss.net Educate! BDS, Middle East, Palestine

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that President Trump is on the verge of signing an executive order that purportedly cracks down on antisemitism at college campuses. The move would apparently allow the government to withhold funding from schools that failed to effectively crack down on discrimination. Trump’s move is undoubtedly being implemented to strengthen the fight against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. According to the New York Times report, the government will begin interpreting Judaism as a nationality.

A Decade Ends: Does It Leave A Legacy?

December 11, 2019 By Greg Godels, Zzs-blg.blogspot.com Strategize! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

Will we remember the victory in Syria as a long overdue turning point in the struggle against imperialism and, perhaps, capitalism? Does the defeat of US and NATO machinations and their surrogate combatants in Syria inspire the people of the Middle East to transcend the divisive limits of sectarian grievances and cultural manipulation? Are we seeing the decline of artificially stoked and cruelly fueled national and religious divisiveness and a turn toward economic justice?

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