I never met Terry Jones, but I would rather have liked to. The complexities of life brushed me close to his orbit a couple of times – a friend...

The fast-paced world of geopolitics can be disorienting to follow and unsettling to witness. The US Empire teeters on the brink of total collapse, and lashes out recklessly this...

Bill Martin Preface for this moment: The aim of my series of articles that began in March 2016 is not journalism, but instead to try to understand something that...

CJ Hopkins So, 2020 is off to an exciting start. It’s barely the middle of January, and we’ve already made it through World War III, which was slightly less...

Max Parry When the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to post a single image of the...

Eric Zuesse On January 9th, Iraq’s Prime Minister and Parliament again ordered all American troops out, but on January 10th the AP headlined “US dismisses Iraq request to work...

Earlier today, President Rouhanie of Iran formally admitted that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet leaving Tehran a few days ago. Speculation has...

Andre Vltchek They say he came from a humble background, and worked himself up the ranks, becoming, as many believe, the second most powerful man in Iran. They say...

Binoy Kampmark On the surface, it made not one iota of sense.  The murder of a foreign military leader on his way from Baghdad airport, his diplomatic status assured...

The US govt has confirmed it deliberately targeted leading Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in its missile (some say drone) attack near Baghdad airport that killed 10 people, including Soleimani...

An awful lot of modern "leaks" are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation. And this is no exception, carefully making sure the "establishment" and...

Andre Vltchek Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known...

Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran midsummer 2014 on suspicion of espionage. He had a government-issued...

Donald Trump's decision to "withdraw" from Syria has kicked up a lot of dust - there's sympathy for the poor Kurds, concern for the stability of the region, fear...

Donald Trump, the elected President of the United States of America, is going to keep a campaign promise. Maybe. Three years after winning office, largely on his “no more...

Binoy KLampmark They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or...

Eric Zuesse Robert O’Brien is a respected authority on international relations and now replaces John Bolton as U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. He is a neoconservative who...

Binoy Kampmark The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses.  Given that...

Binoy Kampmark “Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, Chairman of...

It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions,...