You want war? Russia is ready for war
ahmed sabirBy Pepe Escobar December 16, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Sputnik" - Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski's 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one…
Why the Israeli occupation is failing
By Vijay Prashad Everything is known of the everyday indignities of living under the Israeli occupation: the checkpoints, the separation wall, the embargo, the settlers, the IDF raids… Much has…
Why Saudi Arabia’s anti-terror coalition won’t work
By Salman Rafi The formation of the Saudi Arabia-led “anti-terror” 'Muslim' coalition last week has come as a surprise. But its underlying logic is hardly surprising. Far from being a…
Syria shatters pentagon dream
By Pepe Escobar No wonder Full Spectrum Dominance practitioners in the Beltway and beyond are consumed by deep denial. They look at the Syrian chessboard and as power projection goes,…
Libya’s oil and ISIS
By Vijay Prashad In the northern heart of Libya sits the town of Sirte. It is the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed there by local militiamen after a…
Stingy Baghdad harms the ISIS fight
The Peshmerga go unpaid as the Kurds are stiffed by the Iraqi government By Juleanna Glover The most important and effective fighting partner in the global coalition against Islamic State…
From Iraq to Syria Repeating a Debacle
By John Wight Proof that the British political class hasn't learned anything after Iraq came with David Cameron's ludicrous assertion that there are 70,000 moderate rebels fighting in Syria. It…
The US – Russia proxy war in Syria
ahsanBy Ray McGovern The risk of Syria becoming a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia became real last week when Turkey and Syrian jihadists used U.S.-supplied weaponry to shoot…
The Middle East inches away from the inferno
By David Ignatius A modest diplomatic breakthrough seems near in Lebanon, as the allies of Saudi Arabia and Iran appear to have tentatively agreed on a new president after an…
Syria, ultimate pipelineistan War
By Pepe Escobar Syria is an energy war. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate Pipelinestan war,…