By David Macilwain Truth was a casualty of this war long before the US-Israel launched its volleys of missiles at Tehran. To re-phrase the old maxim – ‘war is the first casualty of lies’ – and never was […]
The Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019Sidita Kushi and Monica Duffy Toft. Original post here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00220027221117546 Full article here: Abstract While scholars have made many claims about US military interventions, they have not […]
“The USA has undertaken over 500 international military interventions since 1776, with nearly 60% undertaken between 1950 and 2017. What’s more, over one-third of these missions occurred after 1999.” Original post here: https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/ Military Intervention Project (MIP) The […]
After NATO provocations and a Russian invasion the US Congress funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has rushed to delete all details of the civil and political bodies it funds in Ukraine. But that list is re-published here, […]
By Tim Anderson, 14 December 2021, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/how-washington-led-the-purge-of-christians-from-its-new-mid1 How Washington led the purge of Christians from its ‘New Middle East’ Tim Anderson Behind its pseudo-Christian ‘crusade’ of the 21st century, it was Washington which masterminded the […]
by Tim Anderson, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1557539/washingtons-strategic-retreat While many have suspected ulterior motives in the Biden regime’s pull-out from Afghanistan, I suggest it is just the first move in a wider strategic retreat by Washington, not only from […]
2015 onwards marks the start of a ‘losing gambit’ for Washington’s New Middle East .. now ‘on the back foot’ it has had to resort to direct interventions in Syria and Iraq, to provide safe haven for its […]
Article from Foreign Affairs, PDF below, original post here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/no-exit
“Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and lastly, Iran. Since then, the world witnessed regime […]
How Amnesty International has become embedded in Washington’s campaign against China, through interventions in the politics of Hong Kong. 14 Aug 2020. Laura Ruggeri is an Italian national and resident of Hong Kong. In June 2018 five law […]
A rebuke to the Trump regime, from the WP Editorial Board. July 21, 2020. Original post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/our-maximum-pressure-on-iran-failed–unless-the-goal-was-to-help-china/2020/07/20/484ae90a-c847-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html THE TRUMP administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has manifestly failed to achieve either its stated or unstated aims: It […]
One of the key organizations promoting and pushing hostility towards Iran is a shadowy group called United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI). Founded in 2008, it was expanded and reorganized in 2014 under the umbrella of the Counter […]
“With the defeat of ISIS and Nusra, the exposure of the ‘White Helmets’ and the various Chemical Weapons stunts, and with the collapse of ‘Rojava’, Washington is fast running out of options in Syria. Syria is winning, but […]
Good intentions gone wrong? “The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers and trove of documents are worth reading through, but it’s also a contradictory mess containing many distortions and lies by omission.” Full text below, original post here: https://fair.org/home/wapos-afghan-papers-propagate-colonial-narrative-of-noble-intentions-gone-awry/
Amnesty International has faked yet another human rights story, in support of the parallel US state department campaign against Iran. The group claims 24 year old Yasaman Aryani has been jailed for 16 years for ‘campaigning against wearing […]
Watson Institute, Brown University (2017) Washington has spent $5.6 trillion on [toxic and futile] wars (Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan) since 2001 full text: Costs of U.S. Post-9_11 NC Crawford FINAL