Miko Peled is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single ...
Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, former Deputy Managing Editor ...
Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist for MintPress News covering Palestine, Israel, and Syria. Her work has been featured in Middle East Eye, The New Arab and Gulf News.
On Monday, August 30, at 3:29 p.m. Eastern Time, a C-17 transport plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, signaling the end of America’s longest war. It was a war that took the ...
Regional players have long accused the US of supporting the group with midnight helicopter transport into Afghanistan. (By: Alex Rubinstein, Substack) The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have ...
Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: that the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries. At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that ...
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June ...
Naftali Bennett is at best a continuation of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s. After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed ...
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered. A 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands, was part ...
The newly-touted “rules-based order” by the U.S. is its latest smokescreen for a foreign policy based on illegal threats and uses of force and a doctrine of “might makes right.” The world is reeling in ...
Raed ShakShak is a resident of Gaza and the outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in English language and literature.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6 percent more than the $704 billion enacted under Trump’s administration. ...
No one can ignore the events in Palestine. No one disputes the horror of it all. Images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the human toll exacted against the Palestinians who live in Gaza ...
Ahmed grew up in Gaza, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from al-Azher University and was the inspiration for/original project manager for We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious ...
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically. The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in ...
There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis. (By: Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News) There are two separate Sheikh ...
“Israel’s violence has a clear purpose: ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of Palestinians to allow Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes.” (By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams) More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one ...
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. On October 11, 2001, ...
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists ...
Originally published in Jacobin Magazine Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, ...
It is a sign of hope that Biden and Blinken are turning to legitimate, multilateral diplomacy in the case of Afghanistan, even if only because, after 20 years of war, they finally see diplomacy as a last ...
As Americans become increasingly critical of the Israeli government, foreign assistance is put under a new microscope. (Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News) JERUSALEM — Last year, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager with an American gun. Now ...
Biden must recognize that the best way to protect U.S. personnel in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region is to take them out of the Middle East. The U.S. bombing of Syria on Thursday ...
“The real joke here is how this extremely obvious reality is taboo and calling any attention to it is subject to a massive pressure campaign when the real pressure campaign should be against Apartheid, not ...
American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their ...
Many of Biden’s first moves in the Middle East, including the building of a new base in Syria, suggest his term will be more of the same rather than a break with the old. (By: ...
Under Donald Trump’s presidency, Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia, Israel, the UAE, and other repressive regimes, had virtually free reign to commit unchecked human rights abuses without worry that they might be chastised or ...
Biden’s response to the far-right uproar against Malley will be a test of his fortitude in standing up to the hawks and charting a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. President Biden’s commitment ...
“Israel cannot be considered a democracy, for it works to advance and perpetuate the supremacy of one group of people, Jews, over another, Palestinians.” (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) The prominent Israeli human rights organization ...
‘US and Israeli efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program “have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President’ Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation ...
(David Swanson) As with many wars around the world, the current war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is a war between militaries armed and trained by the United States. And in the view of some experts, ...
New figures from the UN and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show that since the war in Yemen began, the US has sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, making the Kingdom ...
British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump adviser Jared Kushner are hitting the road in an attempt to strong-arm more Arab states into normalizing relations with Israel, turning their backs on Palestine and isolating Iran. ...
Lebanon’s current tragedy is the perfect opportunity for its former colonial masters to stage a comeback. (Common Dreams) French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political ...
According to a new Oxfam analysis, the Saudi Coalition has carried out the equivalent of “one air raid every ten days during the conflict affecting hospitals, clinics, ambulances, water drills, tanks and trucks,” since it ...
Israeli leaders have characterized the latest bombardment as retaliatory, citing “incendiary balloons” and “riots” as justification. (By: Kathryn Shihadah, Mintpress News) Last Monday night Israeli fighter jets executed airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip for ...
Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, said that neither the ships nor their owners are Iranian but did not address whether the gasoline came from his country. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an escalation ...
This agreement is more about shoring up Trump’s slumping electoral campaign and improving Netanyahu’s battered image in Israel than bringing peace to the Middle East. “HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the ...
A report issued by the State Department’s Inspector General found that US arms sales raise the possibility of civilians getting killed, but also finds that the guy who sells the guns, Mike Pompeo, did nothing ...
“Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Following the resignation ...
A Delaware-based company formed by a former American diplomat, a CEO of a private mercenary company and an old hand in the oil business has inked a deal with U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels to develop crude ...
International politics and pressure could shape the future. On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised he would annex part of the Jordan Valley. He did not, but he may still do so before ...
“I went around Beirut today after the blast. The damage is shocking. Every single residential building, every shop, every hotel, every restaurant, almost nothing left untouched by the pressure from the blast. The streets are ...
Yemen is being devastated by brutal war and COVID. They do NOT need an oil spill poisoning their coasts on top of everything else. A degenerating Yemeni oil tanker sitting miles off the coast of ...
“This shows clearly that Israel doesn’t care about Palestinian lives…They can’t even give us our basic rights to healthcare so we can treat our people from the coronavirus.” –Tayseer Abu Sneineh, Mayor of Hebron (By: ...
Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital ...
Lawmakers are outraged over a recent story alleging that Vladimir Putin may be paying off Taliban soldiers to kill U.S. troops. But why are those troops still in Afghanistan? The New York Times in late ...
Since we are able to accept the suffering of others when we dehumanize them, we must start with the simple recognition that Palestinians are fully human. (Common Dreams) For decades, Israel has used talk of ...
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