Category: Middle East

Israel Facing a Global Backlash Part 2 (of a 2 Part Series)

Student Protests On 18 April, students at Columbia University in New York initiated a sit-in on the campus lawn, protesting the Ivy League institution’s ongoing financial links to companies connected to Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its brutal war on Gaza.  The demonstrations quickly   spread to other top US universities, as demands intensified for an end to both the war and support […]

Israel Facing a Global Backlash Part 1 (of a 2 Part Series)

The Gaza Genocide shows no signs of stopping. The US is pushing Israel to continue. Forget whatever the Empire of Lies spew. It’s all theatrics. Actions speak louder than words. Here, we will do a report on the global backlash Israel is undergoing. First, we visit Israel, and thereafter we will do a global round-up. […]

Gaza – The Genocide Continues Part 3 (of a 4 Part Series)

6. Zionist Rape Culture While Israel’s unsubstantiated claims of rape on 7 October have dominated western media headlines, credible documented cases of rape against Palestinians (with all of it de-bunked as “fake news”) while  Israeli-on-Israeli sexual assault have received far less attention. Israel’s scourge of sexual violence and rape incidents did not originate seven months ago – its roots […]

Gaza – The Genocide Continues Part 4 (of a 4 Part Series)

9. The Pier Con The $320 million Gaza floating pier is a floating dock facility proposed by the White House immediately on March 7, 2024. It is being constructed by U.S. military forces on ships offshore the Gaza Strip, then connected with the shore by causeway, and when complete would enable delivery of maritime cargo for humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Israel will […]

Gaza – The Genocide Continues Part 2 (of a 4 Part Series)

4. The Hospital Massacre As most of the Israeli military has withdrawn their ground forces from Gaza, they are now sending in the Yeshiva groups. A yeshiva is a religious school where Jews are brainwashed in the destructive teachings and commands in the Talmud. In the Middle East, the yeshiva system came to an end […]

Gaza – The Genocide Continues Part 1 (of a 4 Part Series)

Our last article on the Gaza conflict was in January- 4 months ago. Much has happened since, both on the ground and in international politics. Because so much info has flooded into the media etc, many have lost track of the sequence of events. In order to clarify and bring this issue into some semblance […]

Iran Sends Israel a Message

Following the Iran–Iraq War, in 1989, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani concentrated on a pragmatic pro-business policy of rebuilding and strengthening the economy without making any dramatic break with the ideology of the revolution. In 1997, Rafsanjani was succeeded by moderate reformist Mohammad Khatami. Around this time, Washington began to squeeze Iran’s economy by sanctioning Iran. Russia stepped in and began […]

The Covert War between Iran & Israel

The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war or Iran–Israel Cold War, is an ongoing proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Israel has supported Iranian rebels, such as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, conducted airstrikes against Iranian allies in Syria and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists. In 2018 Israeli […]

Iran and the 3 Musketeers

By the 3 Musketeers, we mean Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. The Shanghai 5 & The Grand Chessboard The first Chechen war ended in mid-1995. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was worried that unrest in the Caucasus would spread to other Russian provinces in its south-the so-called “soft underbelly of Russia. He flew to China, met […]

Yemen and the Houthis

The Yemen Front The Ansar Allah movement has lately attracted international attention by boldly defying major world powers, particularly the United States, through their military actions to support Palestine amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. This decision comes at a time when even larger Arab nations refrain from such interventions, despite Yemen itself enduring a decade of US-backed […]

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