Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz [“The Land”], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically going through the country’s archives, including local repositories, and removing and classifying documents having to do with repressive and embarrassing Israeli actions toward Palestinians and Palestinian-Israelis. One such disappeared document […]

Iran

Can Trump’s Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Waging Nonviolence

Eric Stoner | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since coming to power, the Trump administration has had Iran in its crosshairs. The United States unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran. With the other signatories doing little to cushion the blow, Iran now says it […]

Israel/ Palestine

In Israeli-Occupied Palestine, Health Care is not a Right

Al-Shabaka

By Yara Asi | – Al Shabaka) – For decades, political barriers have obstructed the Palestinian health system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, impeding rights and protections. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Yara Asi examines how the Israeli occupation has decreased Palestinians’ ability to seek or practice health care, and offers recommendations that can support […]

Iran

Iranian Aggression? Or American? Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism

Tom Engelhardt

Tomdispatch.com) – Headlined “U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,” the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New York Times. Still, it caught my attention. Here’s the first paragraph: “American intelligence and military officers are working on additional clandestine plans to counter Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf, […]

Iran

Fiasco: How Iran Ran Circles around Trump

Reese Erlich

The Iranian government saw the President’s vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, “Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale.” Tehran resident Dariush is exactly the kind of person that the Trump Administration claims to be supporting. He is a middle-class businessman who hates the clerical regime. The White House […]

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Iran hasn’t Breached the Nuclear Deal– Trump had already Destroyed It

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that Iran has exceeded 300 grams of Low Enriched Uranium. The 300-gram limit was part of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal, negotiated between Tehran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council […]

Iran

Iran is not Iraq: But Can Trump’s Warmongers be Stopped?

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the United States and its ‘coalition of the willing.’ A decade-long siege before the war had left the country in ruin. It was as if not a single car in the […]

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Europe, Defying Trump, Implements New Currency Exchange with Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Frances Coppola at Forbes reports that European powers have made operational their Instex exchange mechanism, which will allow European and other companies to do business with Iran while avoiding US Treasury Department sanctions. The move is the biggest split between the US and Europe over an international policy issue since […]

Israel/ Palestine

Lesson for Kushner in Manama: The Palestinian Resistance can Never be Bought

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – The wheels of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner’s, peace plan for the Middle East are now in motion. This week, the first step of the plan illustrated in the “Peace to Prosperity” economic workshop took place in Bahrain’s capital Manama. While the Palestinian leadership said that […]