I’m Supposed to Write a Blog Post Today
When I rebooted this blog in the fall of 2018 I made a commitment to post at least once a month and so far I have kept that promise to…
Middle East
I’m Supposed to Write a Blog Post Today
When I rebooted this blog in the fall of 2018 I made a commitment to post at least once a month and so far I have kept that promise to…
Who can be a fascist? Let’s look to Mussolini’s Italy, then let’s look to Israel
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at the one-year celebrations of the settlement of Ramat Arbe, an illegal settlement in the Lower Galilee, West Bank. Photo courtesy Itamar Ben-Gvir/X.…
“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]
by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should…
Gaza genocide: We can stop this if we all push
Today in Montreal, the courts ruled in favour of the students camped out in support of the Palestinian people against the overblown Israeli government's genocidal response to the Hamas attack…
Gaza genocide: We can stop this if we all push
Today in Montreal, the courts ruled in favour of the students camped out in support of the Palestinian people against the overblown Israeli government's genocidal response to the Hamas attack…
How Trump unleashed Iran
In 1953, Iran’s democratic government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq was toppled by a military coup backed by the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service. Mosaddeq had nationalized…
Is There Hope For Palestine
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
Is There Hope For Palestine
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
Palestine – What If
Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to…
Palestine – What If
Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to…
Israel’s Assault on Gaza
In the days since Hamas’s violent rampage through southern Israel, one word that keeps popping up is “unprovoked.” A Biden administration official condemned “the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against…
Jenin
Israeli soldier during the July 2023 Jenin incursion. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons. For two days beginning on July 3, Israeli helicopter gunships pulverized dozens of buildings, stores, houses…
Iran and Saudi Arabia make nice
The Middle East has been an ugly place for some time. It has become humanity’s favourite region for killing each other although Vladimir Putin is attempting to return that honour…
Iran and Saudi Arabia make nice
The Middle East has been an ugly place for some time. It has become humanity’s favourite region for killing each other although Vladimir Putin is attempting to return that honour…
National Post Letter
Electoral reform opponents are once again pulling out the old Israel canard. I’ve responded with a letter attempting to set the record straight in today’s National Post: Electoral reform Re:…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman discusses the need for people who have been responsible about limiting the spread of COVID-19 to start speaking out and taking…
The duty to end Israeli apartheid
Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank. Photo by Adam Nieman/Flickr. This week I tried to explain here that the continuing occupation and its transformation from a supposedly temporary situation to…
America’s enforcer in the Middle East
Stephen Gowans is an independent Canadian political analyst. His writings, which appear on his What’s Left blog have been reproduced widely in online and print media in many languages and…
How much crap should Iran be expected to take from the U.S.?
Iran under the Ayatollahs is hardly a model nation. Domestically, it is repressive and, due largely to sanctions imposed by the United States, impoverished. Its foreign policy is aggressive. It…