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Jan 06 2024 
Will the US attack Yemen?
Washington and its allies will regret it if they make good on their threats
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
In its all-out defence of Israel’s interests and support for its three-month-old war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, the US is rapidly heading into a military trap laid by the Yemenis in the Arabian… Continue reading
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Dec 25 2023 
Scott Ritter: Resist beyond the Requiem
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and military analysts speaks to the CPI National Convention in Portland, Oregon on December 2nd, 2023.
Before he speaks David Rovics, well-known anti-imperialist musician performs a song about the Palestinian resistance.
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Dec 22 2023 
Yemen Opens A New Front Against US Empire
In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, we spoke with Maram Susli (AKA Syrian Girl) about the brewing showdown in the Red Sea.
“The United States is in a very precarious position at the moment and opening up a brand new front while they’re funding Ukraine in terms of billions and billions of dollars,… Continue reading
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Dec 22 2023 
Pentagon Panics as Yemen Disrupts Red Sea Traffic
“The U.S. may be picking fights around the world with support for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, but the Pentagon is now scrambling to respond to the one threat it apparently didn’t see coming: Yemen’s Houthis interrupting traffic in the Red Sea, in order to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Ecuadorian Journalist and Editor of The… Continue reading
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Dec 14 2023 
A Requiem by Scott Ritter
There’s always been something unique about the Marines. Not afraid to call a spade a spade, no matter how bitter. Do we have the Smedley Darlington Butler of our times??
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Dec 12 2023 
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Dec 05 2023 
Where will Gazans go?
Where will the south Gazans go? Their homeland has been rendered uninhabitable. They continue to be bombed. They remain jailed in a tiny besieged land, without food, water, electricity, health care, sewage, or any basic services. Egypt continues to bar the border, and they wouldn’t leave anyway. Where will the Palestinians go? Will the world… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2023 
Why ‘Messiah prophecy’ haunts Netanyahu
“Benjamin Netanyahu was told by a powerful Jewish religious figure that he would be Israel’s last leader and hand the sceptre to the Messiah. How does this so-called prophecy affect Netanyahu’s political calculations? And who is the mysterious religious figure, honoured by successive US presidents, simply known as The Rebbe?”
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Nov 29 2023 
‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture Foundation.
The jungle is here – creeping inside all of us.
“Mistah Kurtz – he dead.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad once said that before he had been to the Congo he was a simple animal. It was in one of those lands partially mapped out by the cruelty… Continue reading
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Nov 28 2023 
Israel Keeps Detaining Palestinians Despite Hamas Truce w/ Elijah J. Magnier
if inaccessible, on Twitter: https://nitter.net/RachBlevins/status/1729322391422018011#m
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Nov 24 2023 
The Eviction Notice Comes in Four Languages
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Orthodox Christianity, moderate Islam and several strands of Taoism/Confucianism may become the three main civilizations of a cleansed Mankind.
The Eviction Notice is being written. And it will come in four languages. Russian. Farsi. Mandarin. And last but not least, English.
A much-cherished pleasure of professional writing is to always… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2023
Gaza: a pause before the storm
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While the world cries “Israeli genocide,” the Biden White House is gushing over the upcoming Gaza truce it helped broker, as though it’s actually “on the verge” of its “biggest diplomatic victory.”
Behind the self-congratulatory narratives, the US administration is not remotely “wary about Netanyahu’s endgame,” it fully endorses it -… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2023
Will Russia-China Strategic Patience Extinguish the Fire in West Asia?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
Once upon a time, by the Don river, in the southern steppes of what today is still known as “Ukraine”, the Great King of Persia, the mighty Darius, leading the most powerful army ever assembled on earth, received a puzzling message from a foe he was pursuing: the nomad… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2023 
Israel’s Biggest Enemy Isn’t Hamas… It’s Netanyahu
This is an overly optimist piece but still a valuable voice to present the “realist” flavor within the West. Iran and Palestinians will no longer acquiesce to disingenuous western games, such as the “two-state solution,” in order to reach a modus vivendi — especially after Al Aqsa Flood and subsequent genocide. They now work to… Continue reading
