Middle East & North Africa

A complex network of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations overseen by US and allied intelligence agencies has unfolded, extending across the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Western China, South and South East Asia.
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
The Iraqi parliament suspended the corrupt 2014 agreement with the Obama administration which invited the US to lead a fake counterterrorism operation directed against the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh), made up of mercenaries who are funded, trained and recruited by US-NATO, with the support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Iraq is in the eye of the storm. Washington's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran and Tehran's response put heavy pressure on the Iraqi government, a partner for both. The US expects Baghdad to resist Iran, and Iran expects Baghdad to resist the US. An almost impossible position.
Modern Iran’s Advanced Information and Communication Technology By J. Michael Springmann, April 01, 2023
US Occupation Forces in Syria are not “Fighting Terrorism” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, March 31, 2023
Jamaal Bowman and Bernie Sanders Urge the Biden State Department to Investigate Israeli Use of US Weapons By Alex Kane, March 31, 2023
The Beginning of the End of Israel By Steven Sahiounie, March 31, 2023
History: 50 Years of the 1973 Yom Kippur War By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, March 31, 2023
Israel’s Crisis Is About Who Gets to Play Tyrant: The Generals or Religious Thugs By Jonathan Cook, March 31, 2023
Iraq Twenty Years after “Shock and Awe”: The Mysterious Death of David Kelly selected quotes from interview with Dr. David Halpin By Michael Welch and Dr. David Halpin, March 31, 2023
It’s Official, According to U.N. Spokesperson: “There’s No US Armed Forces inside of Syria” By Prof. Glenn Diesen, March 30, 2023
Israeli Protesters Fixated on Themselves and Israel’s Flawed Democracy By Michael Jansen, March 30, 2023
‘The Dwindling Band of Iraq Obsessives’ – Endless War and Media Complicity By Media Lens, March 30, 2023
Shifting Sands of the Arab Gulf Herald a New Middle East. Rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran By Steven Sahiounie, March 30, 2023
Video: War and Crimes against Humanity. “Fake Intelligence” and the Destruction of Countries. Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Caroline Mailloux, March 30, 2023
Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head By Razi Nabulse, March 30, 2023
Israel Protests: “Democracy” in an Apartheid Regime? By Richard Becker, March 29, 2023
Afghanistan: Harm From Unexploded Ordnance Results in Death of Children: UNICEF By Mitra Majeedy, March 28, 2023
Stephen Lendman – A Tribute to the “Most Prolific Journalist in Independent Media” By Michael Welch, Stephen Lendman, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Ellen Brown, Peter Phillips, and Rick Rozoff, March 28, 2023
Women’s Rights in Modern Iran. A Study in Contrasts By J. Michael Springmann, March 28, 2023
West’s False Atrocity Stories Were Key to Justifying Iraq Invasion. Interviewing Scholar A. B. Abrams on New War Propaganda Research By A. B. Abrams and Military Watch Magazine, March 28, 2023
Netanyahu Has Taken Israel to the Abyss. What Is His Exit Strategy? By Richard Silverstein, March 28, 2023
US Is Stirring Up the Syrian Cauldron By M. K. Bhadrakumar, March 27, 2023
US Tensions with Iran Reignite as Dollar’s Petro-Currency Status Under Threat By Zero Hedge, March 27, 2023
Commemorations of the Attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th Reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Remains the Greatest Threat to International Peace on Our Planet By Ajamu Baraka, March 27, 2023
Free Will Trumps Determinism in Gulf Politics By M. K. Bhadrakumar, March 27, 2023
Saudi-Iran Deal: Towards the De-Americanisation of the Middle East? By Prof. Alain Gabon, March 27, 2023
How Bush and Blair Plotted War in Iraq: Read the Secret Memo in Full By Middle East Eye, March 26, 2023
Why the Hell Is the US Occupying Syria? By Jon Reynolds, March 26, 2023
Abu Ghraib Survivor: Taking the Hood Off 20 Years After Iraq War By Osama Bin Javaid, March 25, 2023
Richard T. Perle’s 1996 “Clean Break” Report to Destroy Syria and Iraq By Steven Sahiounie, March 25, 2023
The Iraq War 20 Years Ago – No Shame. No Lessons Learned. No Arrest Order on NATO State Leaders. Jan Oberg By Jan Oberg, March 25, 2023
BP Extracted Iraqi Oil Worth £15BN After British Invasion By Matt Kennard, March 25, 2023
The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney By Ralph Nader, March 25, 2023
IRAQ 20 Years after “Shock and Awe.” The Wealthy Prevail at the Expense of World Safety and Freedom By Michael Welch, Denis Halliday, Scott Ritter, Prof. Marjorie Cohn, and Mike Prysner, March 24, 2023
Video: “The Criminalization of War”. America’s “Global War on Terrorism” is Fake. Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 24, 2023
Here We Go Again! Publicity for Ukraine War vs Campaign to Justify 2003 US War on Iraq By Michael Jansen, March 23, 2023
Don’t Let the Media Cheerlead Us Into More Wars Like It Did in Iraq By Colonel Ann Wright, March 23, 2023
Video: “War Made Easy”. “Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction” By Media Education Foundation, March 23, 2023
Commemorations of the Attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th Reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Remains the Greatest Threat to International Peace on Our Planet By Ajamu Baraka, March 23, 2023
Forever Wars vs. Armageddon By Ann Garrison, March 22, 2023
The Lord of Chaos. “The Politicians Who Lied to Us Extinguished Millions of Lives”. Chris Hedges By Chris Hedges, March 22, 2023
Ten Days that Changed Iraq – and Me – Forever By Suadad al-Salhy, March 22, 2023
“The Iran-Saudi deal is a fatal blow to the Arab-Israeli pact against Iran.” By Dr. Javad Masoumi and Steven Sahiounie, March 22, 2023
For 20 Years, Team Bush Has Escaped Prosecution for Their War Crimes in Iraq By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, March 21, 2023
The UAE Welcomes Syrian President Assad and the First Lady By Steven Sahiounie, March 21, 2023
The Brouhaha of War: Soundscapes of the Invasion of Iraq, 20 Years On By Louis Brehony, March 21, 2023
Toxic US Military Burn Pits in Iraq Caused Cancer, Other Illnesses By The Cradle, March 21, 2023
Commemorating Iraq’s Three Wars (1991, 2003, 2014): Looking Back : ‘Internationally Sponsored Genocide’. Felicity Arbuthnot By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 20, 2023
20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Will the Media’s Complicity be Flushed Down the Memory Hole? By Jeremy Earp, March 20, 2023
CJPME Appalled by Minister Joly’s Meeting with Far-Right Israeli Government By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, March 20, 2023
Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East. Manlio Dinucci By Manlio Dinucci, March 20, 2023
Iraq Invasion 20th Anniversary: Five Million Dead in Iraqi Holocaust 1990 Onwards By Gideon Polya, March 20, 2023
Criminals at Large: The Iraq War 20 Years On By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 20, 2023
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? By Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 20, 2023
The Iraq War Death Toll. “War Crimes Prosecutions of Senior U.S. and U.K. Officials” By Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 20, 2023
20 Lies About the Iraq War By Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker, March 19, 2023
Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned By David Swanson, March 18, 2023
The Israeli Protest Movement against Netanyahu. Does It Include the Rights of Palestinians? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 17, 2023
Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 By Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, March 17, 2023
On the 20th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq It Must be Clear: The U.S. Is the Greatest Threat to World Peace and Collective Humanity By Ajamu Baraka, March 17, 2023
China’s Breakthrough in the MIddle East By Aqib Sattar, March 16, 2023
US ‘Imperial Anxieties’ Mount Over China-Brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia Diplomatic Deal By Brett Wilkins, March 15, 2023
US Never Ending Wars: 32 Years Ago, America’s “First War” against Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 15, 2023
The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 15, 2023
Israel and Its US Lobby Dealt Major Blow by China-Saudi-Iran Peace Initiative By Grant F. Smith, March 15, 2023
Crisis in Middle East and North Africa: US-UK Encroaching on Conduct of Elections in Libya. Interview with Journalist Martin Jay By Martin Jay and Steven Sahiounie, March 14, 2023
US Still Trying to Bury ‘Collateral Murder’ Video That WikiLeaks Released By Sam Carliner, March 14, 2023
Withdraw From Syria Should Have Been a “Slam Dunk” By Renee Parsons, March 14, 2023
Interfering in Elections? Israel Uses High-technology to Influence Results By Philip Giraldi, March 14, 2023
The Geopolitics of the Iran-Saudi Arabia “Rapprochement”: What Are the Implications for Pakistan? By Andrew Korybko, March 13, 2023
It’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of Huwwara By Jonathan Cook, March 13, 2023
China’s Initiative: Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Back on the Diplomatic Track. Ending the Atrocious War in Yemen? By Peter Koenig, March 13, 2023
China Urges Washington to End ‘Occupation and Marauding’ of Syria By The Cradle, March 13, 2023
China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI): Beijing has Mediated the Resumption of Iran-Saudi Arabia Ties By Andrew Korybko, March 12, 2023
Will Regime Change Now Come to Riyadh? By Gavin OReilly, March 12, 2023
Where Should Palestinians Search for Justice? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, March 10, 2023
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly Must Sanction Israeli Officials for Illegal Settlement Expansion and Annexation By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, March 10, 2023
US-Israeli Determination to Keep the Syrian People Suffering By Steven Sahiounie, March 10, 2023
Sara Netanyahu and the Zionist Regime’s Societal Implosion By Hamzah Rifaat, March 10, 2023
US-NATO Efforts to Overthrow President Assad in Syria By Shane Quinn, March 10, 2023
House Votes to Continue Illegal Military Occupation of Syria By Kurt Nimmo, March 10, 2023
Huwwara: Israeli Settlers Release Song Celebrating the Burning of Palestinian Town By Middle East Eye, March 09, 2023