As’ad AbuKhalil analyzes the Trump administration’s decision to escalate hostilities with Iran and its regional allies. Something big and unprecedented has happened in the Middle East after the assassination of one of Iran’s top commanders,…
Category: The Middle East Crisis
President Trump claimed on Friday that Saudi Arabia has ‘already deposited $1billion in the bank’ so that the United States would continue to station troops in the desert kingdom. ‘Saudi Arabia is paying us for…
Information has come to light that indicts the United States not just for the Soleimani killing but also for the over 300 killings during the Iraqi protests in late 2019. In fact, it can be…
Americans are unfortunately severely reluctant to disbelieve the lies that normally spew forth from the U.S. Government about foreign countries and especially about foreign countries that it invades or wants to invade. Consider, for examples,…
Amidst an environment of a tense standoff between Iran and the US since the last couple of months, the United States assassinated high-ranking Iranian military and intelligence official Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at…
The blowback has begun First, let’s begin by a quick summary of what has taken place (note: this info is still coming in, so there might be corrections once the official sources make their official…
Today the U.S. declared war on Iran and Iraq. War is what it will get. Earlier today a U.S. drone or helicopter killed Major General Qassim Soleimani, the famous commander of the Iranian Quds (‘Jerusalem’)…
The Turkish intervention in Libya might develop into a major international crisis as each side in the ‘civil’ war in Libya has several international supporters. Turkey is now taking serious steps to move troops and equipment to Libya:…
Syria is Washington’s war, launched by the Obama regime in March 2011. There’s nothing remotely “civil” about waging war on a nonbelligerent state threatening no one — using ISIS and likeminded jihadists as imperial foot…
Watching the Trump impeachment hearings, one hears again and again the phrase, ‘the rule of law’ uttered with great solemnity. The phrase is followed very closely by another slogan, ‘fighting corruption’. The American public is…
