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‘Playground of choice’: Iran mobilises to drive US troops out of Iraq
‘Playground of choice’: Iran mobilises to drive US troops out of Iraq The US has the cudgel of the American dollar to prevent its expulsion from Iraq, but will the Biden administration use it? When Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani arrived in New York City in September for the UN General Assembly, a delicate truce […]
Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive
Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive Middle East Eye‘s Ian Cobain has published an exclusive titled “Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army ‘psyops’ soldier”, exposing the fact that Twitter’s senior editorial executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa also works for an actual, literal propaganda unit in the British military called the […]
France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen
France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen French journalists could face up to five years in prison and be fined up to $83,000 France is ranked 32nd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2019 World Press Freedom Index (AFP)By MEE and agencies France has threatened three French journalists with potential […]
Saudi Coup “Imminent” As Crown Prince’s Uncle Arrives To Oust “Toxic” MbS
Saudi Coup “Imminent” As Crown Prince’s Uncle Arrives To Oust “Toxic” MbS The youngest brother of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has returned from self-imposed exile to “challenge” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) “or find someone who can,” reports the Middle East Eye. Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz is reportedly hoping to oust […]
WikiLeaks’ Legacy of Exposing US-UK Complicity
WikiLeaks’ Legacy of Exposing US-UK Complicity WikiLeaks is vilified by governments (and increasingly by journalists) for its exposures, including of the U.S.-UK “special relationship” in running a joint foreign policy of deception and violence that serves London and Washington’s elite interests, says Mark Curtis. Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the […]
Why America can’t understand the Middle East
Why America can’t understand the Middle East American thinking bends toward an attempt to remake the world in its own image. This fatal exceptionalism leads writers like David Ignatius into misreading events in the Arab world A recent editorial in the Washington Post, written by columnist David Ignatius, offers a shining example of the United States’ […]
Good as gold: Turkey uses bullion to stabilise its economy
Good as gold: Turkey uses bullion to stabilise its economy Commercial banks are putting gold into Turkey’s central bank to help deal with rapid inflation Turkey’s central bank has accumulated an additional 400 metric tonnes of gold since 2011 (Reuters) Turkey’s economy has been in a tailspin with an inflationary currency, but the country is […]
Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS
Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy Nearly 3,000 civilians have been slaughtered and a million displaced in Saudi Arabia’s noble aerial bombardment of Yemen, which is backed by the […]
Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong
Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western […]
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’ Mass murder is fine as long we are the ones doing the killing to stop other people killing us Terrorists like to believe they are committing mass murder for a noble political cause. Islamic State (IS) acolytes believe they are fighting against the evil “Crusader” states of […]
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia For the last few years, the Saudi kingdom’s insistence on pumping oil at high capacity has dramatically depressed oil prices. The result has undermined Saudi’s major oil […]
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate Russia is bombing “terrorists” in Syria, and the US is understandably peeved. A day after the bombing began, Obama’s Defence Secretary Ashton Carter complained […]
The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable
The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable Deep-rooted structural realities means that Saudi Arabia is indeed on the brink of protracted state-failure, a process likely to take-off in the next few years On Tuesday 22 September, Middle East Eye broke the story of a senior member of the Saudi royal family calling for a “change” in leadership […]
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria Though the Gulf has called for the overthrow of Assad, sources suggest Obama agreed to Putin’s increased support for him The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s second largest intergovernmental body after the United Nations, issued a dramatic call this Sunday for the overthrow of the regime […]
Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars
Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars US Army is preparing for a new era of war for oil. While energy has always played a role in military conflicts, US military experts believe the geopolitics of energy, land and water is increasingly central to who rules, or ruins, the world. Two research […]
