by Pepe Escobar, published on Mideast Discourse, October 23, 2023 By now it’s fully established who is profiting from the ghastly Palestine tragedy. As it stands we have 3 wins for the Hegemon and 1 win for its aircraft carrier nation in West Asia. First winner is the War Party …
Read More »How Arab regimes fund Israel’s war on Gaza
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan. published on The Cradle, October 20, 2023 Over the course of its short history, Israel has instigated atrocities against both the Palestinian people and neighboring Arab states, often using internationally banned chemicals such as White Phosphorus which has been deployed against Gaza and Lebanon in recent …
Read More »Regional Middle East War Possible Including a U.S. Attack on Iran
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, October 113, 2023 Interview with Dr. Jamal Wakim On October 12, additional US Air Force aircraft arrived in Europe and in the Middle East, at a time of open warfare between US ally Israel, and the Gaza strip, where 3 million unarmed civilians …
Read More »Israeli Ambitions in Syria Rising The Day Before Hamas Put Them In Their Place
Editor’s Note: An Article by Zvi Bare’el, first published in Ha’aretz on October 6, they day before the Hamas breakout, and later on MSN.com, talks about increasingly direct intervention in Syria if the U.S. occupation ends. They refer to the U.S. occupied area as ‘economically important’ while they talk about …
Read More »Trouble Ahead for the US and Israel in Gaza
by Hasan Ilaik, published on The Cradle, October 18, 2023 As wholly expected, and in line with decades of its foreign policy, Washington has thrown its full weight behind “standing with Israel” and its genocidal onslaught on Gaza. But while the two allies’ public stances line up prettily at this …
Read More »Syrian Kurds in an Increasingly Precarious Position
by Gregory Aftandilian, published on The Arab Center, Washington D.C., October 17, 2023 The source of this article appears to be a U.S. lobbying organization. Some of what they say is U.S, propaganda. However, they reflect the true vulnerability of the Kurdish SDF leadership in North Eastern Syria. [editor] Syrian …
Read More »No To NATO! No To War!
Published by George Galloway on Youtube, October 12, 2023 Great discussion that talks about both Ukraine and the Middle East. The Palestinian breakout had just occurred when it was recorded. Good commentators. Very interesting. George Galloway with Prof. Seyed M. Marandi, Richard Medhurst and Tara Reade (A U.S. whistleblower now …
Read More »Killing Lebanon to Punish Syria
by Mohammad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, October 4, 2023 As only one of two Levantine states flanking the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon’s geographic location is of great interest to the various road, rail, and waterway connectivity projects emerging in West Asia – not only in connecting the region, but …
Read More »Turkiye Continues Air Campaign Against US Allies in Syria
From the News Desk at The Cradle, October 9, 2023 The Turkish air force launched a new barrage of attacks in northeast Syria on 9 October, hitting a Kurdish police training center where 20 security personnel, known as Asayish, died and about 50 were wounded. Turkiye reportedly “neutralized” several Kurdish …
Read More »Iran Says Any Scenario Plausible if Israeli War crimes Continue
from Tehran Times, October 13, 2023 During a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut, Hussein Amir Abdollahian said new unforeseen scenarios might unfold if Israel does not change its criminal behavior. “If the war crimes of the Zionist regime are not stopped, any possibility is conceivable,” said the …
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