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2020-11-09 10:25
By Abir Bassam
While waiting for the American “Godot”
The world has been following the American elections step by step. By the 8th of November, the results were finally declared. A new president is elected for the United States. For the last two weeks, the world had been living in a state of anticipation.
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2020-11-07 11:19
By Professor Mahmood Monshipouri
Upending Trump’s tumultuous legacy
Trump’s legacy and his failed policies, including failure to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, were on ballot in the recent U.S. presidential election.
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2020-11-04 10:28
By Donald Losman
On the verge of serious domestic unrest
We are on the verge of some serious domestic unrest. If the election is contested, as I suspect it will be, it may take weeks to sort out.
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2020-11-04 09:57
By Charles Dunaway
U.S. nationwide unrest: A challenge to the U.S. sham democracy
The potential for an extended period of political unrest and rioting definitely exists. We could have Trump ahead in the votes cast on Election Day, only to lose if and when the mail-in ballots are counted. That scenario will almost surely cause rioting.
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2020-11-03 22:41
By Kevin Barrett
U.S. election: Minor effect on West Asian policy, major implications for domestic unrest
Political unrest, riots, and possibly even a collapse into civil war are all real possibilities.
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2020-11-03 14:38
By A.R. Ghavidel
In His Name the Most High Mohammad(s) Mercy for All
The fundamental tenet of Islam is the belief in all prophets sent by God. All Muslims firmly believe that God sent messengers to all countries for guiding all nations on the earth. The names of some of them have been mentioned in the Holy Quran, along with their entrusted missions. All prophets were divinely inspired and all had the same identical message for mankind, with such variations and differences as the social conditions of the times required.
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2020-11-01 23:45
By Stephen Lendman
The threat of a Biden/Harris regime in power
Since Trump took office in January 2017, I’ve sharply criticized his domestic and geopolitical agenda — with ample supporting evidence to make my case.
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2020-10-31 11:48
By Abir Bassam
France playing the new victim of 9/11
The course of events has taken a violent and strange path in France. The caricatures of Prophet Muhammad were not published and republished in vain.
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2020/10/28
By Abir Bassam
Turkey accumulating differences with NATO
Starting in March 2015, Russia decided to take military action against the war on Syria. Ironically, as Syria began retrieving its power over the occupied areas by ISIS and al-Nusra, the Turkish political situation was getting more and more complicated every day.
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2020-10-19 22:22
By Batool Subeiti
Macron's mission in Lebanon – raising the dead dream
French President Emmanuel Macron came to Lebanon in the wake of the August explosion, harboring with him the scent of nostalgia that marks 100 years since Lebanon was declared a state under the French colonial mandate.
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2020/10/17
By Dennis Etler
Yunnan meeting, a major step toward a comprehensive and constructive partnership
The meeting of Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the Chinese province of Yunnan bodes well for the future of Sino-Iranian relations. It is a little known fact that during the Yuan dynasty Shams al-Din, an Iranian from Bukhara, was appointed Yunnan's first provincial governor. The meeting of the two foreign ministers in Yunnan thus takes on added historical significance.
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2020/10/14
By Abir Bassam
The fires of Belad al-Sham: Attacks on nutrition supplies
Last week was one of the worst weeks the area of Belad Al-Sham has witnessed. The fires spread all over the Belad Al-Sham coast, i.e., the Syrian coast from Latakia to Palestine. The victims were mainly the forest trees and, in particular, the aging Oak trees, the olive trees, and other fruit trees. However, the targeted injured party was the farmer, who is still holding on to his land and his means of survival.
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2020/10/14
By Myles Hoenig
The ins and outs of American elections
The first words to come out of most mouths regarding the first debate were 'shocking,' 'disturbing,' 'demoralizing,' 'frightening' and so many other hyperboles. But if it wasn't for the fact that this was one of the traditional ways to elect a president with the most powerful military in the world, one could almost see the humor in the debate. Two septuagenarians acting like kindergarten children fighting over a snack, especially when one is the U.S. president, just has to make one laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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2020/10/14
By Richard Anderson Falk
AIPAC and U.S. elections
AIPAC is a strong lobbying group that is perceived by the political parties to exert great influence on large Jewish donors and Jewish voters generally. The leadership of both parties competes for AIPAC approval, although as an organization it refrains from political endorsements at national levels. It does have a record of opposing Congressional candidates deemed critical of Israel, making inflammatory accusations that candidates critical of Israel are by that fact alone anti-Semitic. Such a campaign has been launched with at least implicit AIPAC support to defeat the candidacy of Ilhan Omer who is running for reelection in urban Minneapolis.
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2020/10/14
By Jim W. Dean
Is the U.S. facing a political civil war?
(How bad is the U.S. political schism going to get?)
When a Continental Convention was adjourning in 1787, a spectator called out to Ben Franklin, “What kind of government will we have? He answered, “A republic if you can keep it, sir.” That admonition is what anti-Trump people are facing now.
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2020-10-13 11:40
By Prof. Mehdi Zare
Earthquake hazard zoning: An international effort conduction in Iran for Western and South Asia
As an international effort, this article is aimed to represent the important controlling factors for seismic hazard analysis (SHA) performed over the last 3 decades in Iran, Western, and South Asia.
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2020/10/10
By Anthony Tucker-Jones
West Asia’s a perfect storm
Who could have predicted that Saddam Hussein’s attack on Iran back in 1980 would create a perfect storm that was to last for almost four decades?
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2020-10-10 11:53
By Ian Greenhalgh
Election 2020: Stakes never higher for Dis-United States
('Stand back, stand by': Trump prepares to declare victory)
The United States has not been so dis-united since the end of the Civil War a century and a half ago. The reason for the great divide that has opened up in U.S. society is clear and it is the presidency of Donald Trump. It is not by accident, but rather by design that the U.S. has been fractured and broken; for the reason, we merely need to recall the principle of ‘divide and conquer’.
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2020-10-06 10:46
By Andrew Korybko
America’s quasi-democratic election
The U.S. is not a direct democracy
As the theoretically pure form of democracy exists in any major country given their size, we cannot say the U.S. election is a fully democratic election.
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2020-10-06 10:45
By Charles Ortel
U.S. election and the challenge of potential voters
During 2020, there is heightened potential for interference many ways, but at core Americans across the political spectrum are free to register and to vote in secret, meaning the outcome, once tallied should reflect the will of a broad swath of eligible voters.
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2020-10-06 10:35
By Stephen Lendman
Trump v. Biden: The evil of two lessers
Earlier I discussed the shame of the nation in America, a bipartisan conspiracy against peace, equity, justice and the rule of law. I noted Benjamin Franklin’s warning to the nation’s founders on the uncertainty of whether the newly created republic would last into “remote futurity.” Asked if a republic or monarchy was formed, he responded: “A republic if you can keep it.”
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2020/09/26
By Abir Bassam
American threats of assassinations: What follows?
It seems that American President Donald Trump is greatly enjoying the game of power. He must have lost his balance as a credible businessman to becoming a genuine cowboy, raising his pistol, and shooting all around. His ego is becoming more inflated every day. This was bluntly expressed on the 16th of September in his interview on Fox News, bragging his decision to assassinate another state's president.
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2020-09-21 11:43
By Laurent Guyénot
“New world order pledged to Jews” 80 years ago
Most Zionist diplomacy takes place in secret, through corruption and blackmail (euphemistically called “lobbying”). But sometimes it is deemed appropriate that some statement be written down by some government representative in support of Zionism. The Goyim who write these statements may think them of little consequence, but Zionists know very well how to capitalize on them.
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2020/09/18
By Abir Bassam
Lebanon boiling over its harbor hot tin
What is being cooked in Beirut's harbor? It seems that there are urgent needs to keep Lebanon on guard. The country is barely picking itself up after the blast on the 4th of August. Now, it is going through another dilemma as the fire burst on the 10th of September. The two major accidents suggest that the time has not yet come for Beirut to write its closure.
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2020/09/14
By Khalid Qaddoumi
Normalization between some Arab governments and ‘Israel’: Facts and figures
The term itself says that something is not "normal". It needs to be normalized, or something that was a taboo is converted into permissible. This is the situation of the relations between Arabs and "Israel" since the Palestinians' catastrophe (Nakba) in 1948 when the "Israeli" occupation started. Hence, no doubt this topic is controversial and paradoxical.
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2020-09-11 19:11
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Post 9/11 America: Islam and Muslims still suspect
Nineteen years have passed by since a rogue band of extremists hijacked four passenger airplanes and executed a multi-pronged attack on the symbols of American hegemony. Muslims were immediately eyed with great suspicion and these fears were amplified by U.S. politicians in a misguided attempt to capitalize on the public’s shock and outrage. Over the interceding years Americans’ negative attitudes toward and perceptions of Islam and Muslims has only worsened.
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2020-09-11 14:06
By Kevin Barrett
9/11 and death of the American dream
Sometimes comedians can get a laugh just by telling the truth. George Carlin was good at that. One of his most famous quotes is: “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
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2020-09-11 13:01
By Stephen Zunes
No evidence suggests 9/11 was a conspiracy
I have seen absolutely no credible evidence to suggest that the 11 September 2001 attacks were a result of any kind of conspiracy by the U.S. governments or anyone outside of the Al-Qaeda network. It was indeed a terrorist attack planned and carried about exclusively by Al-Qaeda.
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2020-09-11 09:25
By Stephen Lendman
9/11: The mother of all Big Lies
They’re a longstanding U.S. tradition, dating from the 19th century. They enabled annexation of Texas. Half of Mexico followed.
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2020-09-11 08:36
By Mohammad Mazhari
9/11 attacks shattered the Americans' sense of security: Shireen Hunter
TEHRAN - Shireen Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, is of the opinion that the September 11 attacks “shattered the Americans' sense of security” and led to “a far more directly interventionist American foreign policy.”