Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The Yemeni Shiite group’s spectacular attack on Abqaiq raises the distinct possibility of a push to drive the House of Saud from power
Houthi fighters
We are the Houthis and we’re coming to town. With the spectacular attack on Abqaiq, ...
The drone attack on the Saudi refinery is no game-changer. But is there a new ‘axis of evil’ in the Middle East?
- Slavoj Žižek Σλάβοϊ Ζίζεκ Славој Жижек سلافوي جيجك
The Saudi-led destruction of Yemen - and the inevitable Houthi response - is part and parcel of the usual geopolitical games. Israel re-shaping the West Bank under the radar is where the rules are changing.
Attack on major oil facilities in Saudi ...
Five quick takes on the Tunisian election
- Ricard González Samaranch ريكارد غونزاليس سمرانش
In a global era of electoral upsets, the rise of anti-establishment or populist movements and popular rage against the elites, Tunisia produced its share in the first round of the presidential elections that took place on Sunday. It is curious -and somehow ...
Israelis have made their verdict clear: Benjamin Netanyahu’s time is up
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
There looms the possibility of weeks of horse-trading and the Joint List of Arab legislators becoming the official opposition
For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, ...
The Only Jewish Ghetto in the Middle East
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The results from Tuesday’s Israeli elections have confirmed what many of us have known for a long while. The Jewish state is an ultra-nationalist right wing swamp. Israel is more hawkish than more hawkish than ever. There is not a single ...
Who takes more orders from the government: Huawei or Google?
- José Manzaneda
The corporate media have reported on the 18 charges that the US government will bring against Julian Assange (1). There is no outrage. No condemnations regarding “violation of press freedom” which is entailed by the persecution and arrest ...
US defense failure… Why Washington has to blame Iran over attackscon Saudi Arabia
- Finian Cunningham
The devastating blitz on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry has led to a flurry of accusations from US officials blaming Iran. The reason for the finger-pointing is simple: Washington’s spectacular failure to protect its Saudi ally.
The Trump ...
Jewish Israelis should cast a solidarity vote for the Arab Joint List
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Reminder No. 1: There are such things as solidarity and identification, even if it’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about them. Reminder No. 2: Israel’s Arab citizens are a constant target for attack, exclusion and humiliation, ...
The End of Israel
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The lesson to be drawn from the current Israeli political stalemate is that Israel is imploding, breaking into the elements it has never managed to integrate into one. The schism is no longer the more quotidian dichotomy of Ashkenazi vs. Arab Jews (aka ...
What is it about Israel that makes it so attractive to anti-Semites, fascists and racists such as Trump, Bolsonaro and Duterte?
- Tony Greenstein
Israel is proof that any group of people, including Jews, can, given the right set of circumstances become racists and fascists.
Racism is not biologically inherited. It is a product of society not genetics. Just as Germans today have not inherited ...
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