Middle East

I Knew The War In Afghanistan Was A Lie

December 11, 2019 Maj. Danny Sjursen, Truthdig.com Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Nightmares still haunt me. Sometimes it’s the standard stuff associated with classic post-traumatic stress disorder: flashbacks of horrible attacks and images of my mutilated troopers. More often, though, peculiar as it may sound, I dream that my sociopathic, career-obsessed colonel calls to give me another late-night order to do something unnecessary—usually dangerous, always absurd—the next day. We never got along; the man distrusted me from the start. To him, my plainly ironclad loyalty to my young soldiers was suspicious.

The Story Of Daher Al-Umar Undermines Israel’s Own Origin Story

December 5, 2019 By Miko Peled, Mintpressnews.com Educate! History, Israel, Middle East

The history of Palestine, even its very recent history, has been all but forgotten. It was pushed out by a new version of history, a narrative that is based on faith and has very little to do with history. One striking example is that of the 18th-century Palestinian leader and unifier, Daher Al-Umar. For most people, neither the man or the period in which he ruled Palestine is known. Here is what Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah writes about Daher Al-Umar...

Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of “Made in the USA” Corruption

December 3, 2019 By Nicolas J S Davies, Commondreams.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

As Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Iraqis were mourning more than 60 protesters killed by police and soldiers on Thursday in Baghdad, Najaf and Nasiriyah. Nearly 400 protesters have been killed since hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets at the beginning of October. Human rights groups have described the crisis in Iraq as a “bloodbath,” Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi has announced he will resign, and Sweden has opened an investigation against Iraqi Defense Minister Najah Al-Shammari, who is a Swedish citizen, for crimes against humanity.

We Thought The House Was Empty

November 27, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

On 13 November 2019, as part of its deadly attack on the people of Gaza, Israeli armed forces bombed a building in the Deir al-Balah neighbourhood of Gaza City. That strike killed eight people: Rasmi Abu Malhous (age 45), Miriam Asoarka (age 45), Yoseri Asoarka (age 39), Sim Mohamed Asoarka (age 13), Mohand Malhous (age 12), Moad Mohamed Asoarka (age 7), and two unnamed toddlers. Israel’s armed forces said that it had targeted an Islamic Jihad commander, although everyone in the neighbourhood said that no such commander lived either in the building or in the area.

The US Is Addicted To Weapons Sales To The Middle East

November 23, 2019 By William D. Hartung, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Middle East, US Imperialism, Weapons Sales

It’s no secret that Donald Trump is one of the most aggressive arms salesmen in history. How do we know? Because he tells us so at every conceivable opportunity. It started with his much exaggerated “$110 billion arms deal” with Saudi Arabia, announced on his first foreign trip as president. It continued with his White House photo op with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in which he brandished a map with a state-by-state rundown of American jobs supposedly tied to arms sales to the kingdom.

The CIA’s Terror Regimes In Afghanistan

November 22, 2019 Emran Feroz, Trtworld.com Educate! Afghanistan, CIA, Middle East

It was in the middle of the night in December 2018 when members of the so-called Khost Protection Force (KPF) raided a home in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia and killed six people. Among the victims were Naim Faruqi, a tribal elder and member of the local peace council, as well as his nephew, a young student. Both of them were executed by the paramilitary unit— by headshots – and this was not the first time something like this happened.

There Are Riots In Iran And The Usual Suspects Are On It

November 21, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Iran, Middle East, Uprising

The Iranian government decided to increase Iran's super low gasoline prices. The new price will only apply to the amount of gas that exceeds a subsidized 60 liter per family per month. The additionally money will be distributed to the poor. The move makes economic sense. It had previously been recommended by the IMF. The usual suspects have used the announcement to launch protests and riots in several Iranian cities. Some banks were set on fire and security personal were attacked. The CIA and the MEK cult are certainly trying to push for additional disturbances.

Iran’s ‘Only Crime Is We Decided Not To Fold’

November 21, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

Just in time to shine a light on what’s behind the latest sanctions from Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a speech at the annual Astana Club meeting in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan delivered a searing account of Iran-US relations to a select audience of high-ranking diplomats, former Presidents and analysts. Zarif was the main speaker in a panel titled “The New Concept of Nuclear Disarmament.” Keeping to a frantic schedule, he rushed in and out of the round table to squeeze in a private conversation with Kazakh First President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Plundering Iraq

November 20, 2019 Eric Margolis, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East

Welcome to modern Iraq. The British were always masters of efficient imperialism. In the 19th century, they managed to rule a quarter of the Earth’s surface with only a relatively small army supported by a great fleet. Many of their imperial subjects were so overawed by the pomp and circumstance of British rule that they often willingly cooperated, or at least bent the knee. Call it colonialism 101. Ardent students of Roman history, the British early on adopted the Roman strategy of ‘divide et impera’, divide and conquer.

The OPCW And Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused Of Evidence-Tampering By Its Own Inspectors

November 19, 2019 By Jonathan Steele, Counterpunch.org Educate! Chemical Weapons, Middle East, Syria

Claims that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons are almost as old as the Syrian civil war itself. They have produced strong reactions, and none more so than in the case of the alleged attack in April last year on the opposition-controlled area of Douma near Damascus in which 43 people are said to have been killed by chlorine gas. The United States, Britain and France responded by launching airstrikes on targets in the Syrian capital.

International Solidarity With The Kurds Energizes Revolution On The Ground

November 19, 2019 By Shane Burley, Truthout.org Resist! Kurds, Middle East, Nationalism

As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flew into Washington, D.C., on November 14, to meet with Donald Trump, anti-fascist and international solidarity activists were flooding into the streets in protest. “The protest is in opposition to Turkey’s aggression toward North Syria,” says Flint Arthur, vice president of the American Rojava Center for Democracy. Arthur participated in the D.C. protests to “oppose Turkey’s ongoing attacks, invasion and occupation of North Syria,” a region known as Rojava.

There Are No Serious Anti-Iran Sentiments Prevailing In Iraq And Lebanon

November 16, 2019 By Elijah J. Magnifier, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

When the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says “The Iraqi and Lebanese people want their country back. They are discovering that the Iranian regime’s top export is corruption”, he is directly accusing the respective governments in Iraq and Lebanon of being pro-Iranian and therefore supporting the revolution. The US involvement in the Iraqi and Lebanese streets and its wish to see governments removed has not gone unnoticed by the highest Shia authority in the world, the Iranian Najaf-based Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who enjoys significant influence in Iraq and the rest of the Islamic world.

US Seizure Of Oil Fields Escalates Tensions In Syria

November 16, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Syria

The US has deployed hundreds of troops backed by armored vehicles into oil fields located in Syria’s northeastern Deir Ezzor province, where they are reportedly building two new bases. Turkish media have reported that large quantities of construction equipment and materials have been sent into the region, along with the troops, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ammunition. Pentagon officials defended the renewed deployment at a press briefing Thursday. However, they resolutely refused to answer questions about US President Donald Trump’s statements that the troops were there to “take the oil”...

Wikileaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports To Blame Syrian Government Instead Of Western Backed-Jihadis!

November 16, 2019 Federico Pieraccini, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Middle East, Syria, Wikileaks

A whistleblower from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) delivered to Wikileaks authentic documents to do with investigations into the Douma bombing in Syria in 2018. These documents confirmed what many had been writing about for months, namely, that the OPCW’s investigations and conclusions were manufactured to reach a premeditated result that was unfavorable to the Syrian Arab Army and in line with the foreign-policy objectives of Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Paris, Ankara, Doha and London.

Trump’s Syrian See-Saw: From Pullout To Pillage

November 16, 2019 Staff, Thepolemicist.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria, Trump Administration

First came the withdrawal. It was real, and had a significant effect. Trump ordered the removal of US troops from Kurdish areas, putting an end to the prospect of an independent Kurdish statelet, split off from Syria. Such a partition was always implausible, given the general balance of forces in the region and the specific refusal of NATO-member Turkey to accept any such thing. (Turkey had already invaded Syria in 2016, and the Obama-Biden administration ordered the Kurds to accept it.) It was also a lynchpin of the longstanding Plan B for dismembering the Syrian state.

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