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Aug 20 2025 
Pepe Escobar: & Mohammad Marandi: Explosive Conflicts Rage in Middle East & Caucasus
Diggin’ deeper with the two coolest Persians anywhere. Pay special attention to Prof. Marandi explaining the Zangezur riddle compared to the new Iran concept of Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor.
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Jul 16 2025 
The Cradle Three
Regional Discussion: Middle East – West Asia
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Jun 20 2025 
Baking the Iran cake
According to Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Western countries are obviously seeking to demonize Russia and keep afloat the unconvincing narrative picturing Ukraine as a victim and Russia as an aggressor.
He says that the West continues to use the topic of Ukraine to divert attention from the escalation in the Middle… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
Trump Intends to Knock China Out of Middle East Struggle
Elena Panina – Russtrat Institute
Hudson Institute: Trump Intends to Knock China Out of Middle East Struggle
Donald Trump’s trip to Riyadh is an attempt to restore American influence in the Middle East, begins with a platitude from Zeneb Ribois of the Hudson Institute (Washington). The stakes of the US president’s visit are high, she gets to… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2025 
The Middle-East/West Asia wars are continually escalating
Current local time Jerusalem: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/israel/jerusalem
Previous thread: https://sovereignista.com/2025/03/19/the-middle-east-west-asia-wars-are-escalating/
Apr 13
Ansar Allah military spokesman: Over the past two weeks, Ansar Allah has downed four American drones, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said. The latest MQ-9 Reaper was reportedly shot down with a domestically made surface-to-air missile in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate. According to official sources, the… Continue reading
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Feb 07 2025 
Dmitry Polyanski : Gaza, Middle East & Ukraine
Dmitry Polyanskiy is the First Deputy Permanent Representative to the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
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Jan 22 2025 
Yesterday: Middle East-West Asia
From Al-Akhbar (English)
Lebanon
• Israeli forces bombed areas in Bani Hayyan, Taloussa, Aitroun, and between Kfarkila and Taybeh, while targeting homes in Bint Jbeil and Taybeh, South Lebanon.
• Israeli forces demolished a mosque in Wadi al-Slouqi near Majdal Selm, before withdrawing to Markaba and combing the western outskirts of Mais al-Jabal, South Lebanon.
• An Israeli drone… Continue reading
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Dec 02 2024 
The Long War to reaffirm Western and Israeli primacy undergoes a shape-shift
The Middle East is ‘conservative’ no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening’ is gestating.
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine war has shifted. And in the Middle East, the… Continue reading
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Oct 31 2024 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: President Faces impossible odds: Middle East & Ukraine – Dialogue Works
A Dailogue Works interview:
Transcript will follow:
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Aug 10 2024 
George Galloway: “An end is coming!” – A chilling message for Israel
In this episode of “Have It Out with Galloway,” George Galloway examines the escalating tensions in the Middle East. Is the WW3 looming on the horizon?
George is joined by Ghadi Francis, war correspondent, and a live audience.
This is on PressTV should there be problems with the video link: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/06/730835/Middle-East–WW3-looms-
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Oct 18 2023 
Russia’s neutrality ballet on Israel-Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While some Russian heavyweights push to recast Israel as a hostile state, the Kremlin is unlikely to budge. Instead, Moscow will stay ‘neutral’ to maximize its West Asian influence, all while edging closer to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Is it possible that the philo-Semitic Russian President Vladimir Putin… Continue reading
