Middle East

US Dropped Bombs In Afghanistan At Record Level In 2019

January 30, 2020 By Phillip Walter Wellman, Stripes.com Educate! Afghanistan, Bombing, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States dropped more bombs and other munitions in Afghanistan last year than any other year since documentation began in 2006, Air Force data shows. American aircraft released 7,423 munitions in the country in 2019, according to figures published Monday by U.S. Air Forces Central Command. Coalition aircraft flew nearly 8,800 sorties during the period, over a quarter of which carried out strikes.

The ‘Deal Of The Century’ Is Apartheid

January 30, 2020 Sheena Anne Arackal, Mondoweiss.net Educate! Apartheid, Israel, Middle East, Palestine

With great fanfare, President Trump finally unveiled his long-anticipated Middle East peace proposal. The proposal was labeled ‘The Deal of the Century’ because it was supposed to offer an even-handed and just solution to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Instead it does something very different. The ‘Deal of the Century’ resurrects and restores grand apartheid, a racist political system that should have been left in the dustbins of history.

The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran

January 30, 2020 By Nicolas J S Davies, Commondreams.org Educate! Iran, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

This has led to an illegal regime of brutal sanctions, under which thousands of children are dying from preventable diseases and malnutrition, and to threats of another illegal U.S. war that would engulf the Middle East and the world in even greater chaos than the one the CIA engineered against Iraq. Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.”

Trump’s “No-Peace/Peace Plan” For Palestine. Netanyahu/Gantz Invited To White House To Discuss “Deal Of The Century”

January 29, 2020 By Stephen Lendman, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Israel, Middle East, Palestine

The so-called peace process is the greatest hoax in modern times, along with the US war OF terror worldwide, not on it. Israeli/Palestinian no-peace/peace plans have been around since the 1970s — a near-half century of failure to reach accommodation proof positive of US/Israeli unwillingness to respect Palestinian rights. If both countries wanted conflict resolution resolution with Palestinians, it would have happened long ago.

In the Name Of ‘Israel’s Security’: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More In Military Aid

January 28, 2020 Ramzy Baroud, Ramzybaroud.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Israel, Middle East

Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently ensured just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in aid every year. The Bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Chris Coons and Republican Senator Marco Rubio, was passed on 9 January...

Why The New Silk Roads Are A ‘Threat’ To US Bloc

January 27, 2020 Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! BRI, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, it’s easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. Asia and Europe have been trading goods and ideas since at least 3,500 BC. Historically, the flux may have suffered some occasional bumps – for instance, with the irruption of 5th-century nomad horsemen in the Eurasian plains.

Hybrid Wars: What Is New And What Is Not? An Update About Iran

January 16, 2020 By Harry Targ, Heartlandradical.blogspot.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

Andrew Korybko, a Russian scholar/journalist, has written about a new concept, “hybrid wars,” with a long history in practice. The author refers to the Law of Hybrid War as “The grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political etc.) within a targeted transit state” (Andrew Korybko, “Hybrid Wars 1. The Law of Hybrid Warfare,” Oriental Review.org, 4/3.2016).

Iran/USA: Assassination Aftermath–Is There A Win-Win Way Out?

January 15, 2020 By Diane Perlman, Transcend.org Educate! Assassination, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

Following the outrageous US assassinations of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi General Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis on Iraqi territory, dynamics are in flux. While both promise and peril are in the air, parties may be ratcheting down tensions to avoid a cataclysmic escalation. Given the lemon of the assassinations, can we make lemonade, informed by the TRANSCEND Method? Is there a way to create a new reality that addresses the interests of major parties?

How The Murder Of Iranian Commander Connected To HK

January 14, 2020 Andre Vltchek, Chinadailyhk.com Educate! Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

Hong Kong rioters would like to believe that they are unique, and that the West has handpicked them — them alone — for what it identifies as the “noble fight for democracy”, and for “Western values”. The problem is that Hong Kong, which likes to promote itself as “Asia’s World City” — at least that is what the advertisements and billboards used to shout, till recently — is actually very far from being global, cosmopolitan, or internationalist.

How The President Became A Drone Operator

January 14, 2020 By Allegra Harpootlian, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Drones, Middle East, Wars and Militarism

We’re only a few days into the new decade and it’s somehow already a bigger dumpster fire than the last. On January 2nd, President Trump decided to order what one expert called “the most important decapitation strike America has ever launched." This one took out not some nameless terrorist in a distant land or a group of civilians who happened to get in the way, but Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East.

A New Middle East ‘Made In Iran’ Is About To Be Born

January 12, 2020 Elijah J. Magnier. Educate! Iran, Middle East, Oil, Trump, Wars and Militarism

It would be inaccurate to say the US will leave the Middle East. However, it is certain that the assassination of one single man – the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – is diminishing US influence significantly. This could not have happened without the (in) direct help of US President Donald Trump. Trump is doing everything possible to undermine and degrade US hegemony in the world. He doesn’t need any help in this endeavour, but his advisors and cabinet members share his talent for mismanaging foreign policy and national security affairs. With this bad advice US relations around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, have been run as if by a businessman, used to negotiating and intimidating with little subtlety and altogether lacking diplomatic skills.

‘Killing His Own People’ – Previous Regime-Change Lies And Their Consequences

January 11, 2020 By Gavin O'Reilly, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Regime Change

Prior to his assassination in a US Drone strike in Baghdad last Friday, Qasem Soleimani would perhaps not have been the most well-known of figures amongst Western onlookers, despite the crucial role he played in Middle Eastern geopolitics. As commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp’s (IRCG) elite Quds Force branch, General Soleimani was instrumental in destroying the Caliphate that Islamic State (IS) had established in Iraq and Syria; with Iraq having been destabilized following the 2003 US-Anglo invasion, and Syria suffering a similar fate...

By Denying Iran’s Foreign Minister Visa For Security Council Visit, America Has Lost Moral Right To Serve As Home For UN

January 10, 2020 By Dr. George Szamuely, Rt.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, United Nations

The US government has apparently denied Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a visa to enter the United States in order to attend a January 9 UN Security Council meeting. The subject to be discussed wasn’t Iran but something far more anodyne: “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Upholding the UN Charter.” Zarif had applied for a visa long before the current turmoil in relations between Washington and Tehran.

Axis Of Resistance Says How It Will Avenge Qassem Soleimani

January 10, 2020 By Moonofalabama.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

The media continue to tell fairytales about Qassem Soleimani and about Trump's decision to assassinate him and PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Meanwhile the Resistance Axis announced how it will avenge their deaths. In their descriptions of Qassem Soleimani U.S. media fail to mention that Soleimani and the U.S. fought on the same side. In 2001 Iran supported the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. It used its good relations with the Hazara Militia and the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which both the CIA and Iran had supplied for years, to support the U.S. operation.

An Act Of Cowardice: US Assassination Of Soleimani Puts US-Israeli Fear Of Iran On Full Display

January 10, 2020 By Miko Peled, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Israel, Middle East

In what can only be described as one in a long series of reckless, thoughtless and short sighted acts that serve only the narrowest interests, the Trump administration assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. This assassination, which was an act of cowardice, one may safely assume was concocted by Benjamine Netanyahu, another corrupt, reckless coward who is fighting for his political life. This, like the rest of the Trump administration’s Mideast and Iran policy, had to have been prescribed by the Prime Minister of Israel.

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