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Underestimate Iran At Your Peril
WILLIAM SCHRYVER—The idea that Iran could pose any credible threat to the American military, its incomparable weaponry, and its mighty ...

The Successful Cultural Revolution (Part 1)
GODFREE ROBERTS—Social discontent – rooted in workers’ material lives – was real. Workers’ productivity had increased by 250% since 1957 ...

What Arab states can do to punish Israel
KARIM SHAMI—In broad terms, Qatar remains aligned with the western camp, to which NATO ally Turkiye also leans. Despite its ...

Iran news agency files glum report on Israel future
MNA—The October 7 incident put a question mark on the Zionists' claim and strategy in controlling the Resistance and Hamas. Also, ...

Scott Ritter: Hamas Winning Battle for Gaza
SCOTT RITTER—Hamas knows that it cannot engage Israel in a classic force-on-force encounter. Instead, the goal was to lure Israeli ...

‘The Horror! the Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
PEPE ESCOBAR—To dominate assorted “primitive” peoples, Britannia replaced the iron and the sword with trade. Like any monotheistic faith, they ...

Hizbullah: “You Don’t See Them…They See You!”
BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY—With the last shot of the 2006 war fired and the IDF moving back into Israel, Lebanon began to ...

New York Times: “The pace of deaths in Gaza, especially among children and women, is beyond anything ever seen”
THOMAS FAZI—“Experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza show that the pace of ...

GAZA: The Martyred City
EDITOR—“I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia... but I have never operated on so ...

Ages of terror: Here’s why Africans hate France
ABBAS JUMA—In his memoirs, Charles de Gaulle wrote that France brought civilization to Africa, helped it build nation states and ...

Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
JONATHAN COOK—After its mass ethnic cleansing operations of 1948 and 1967, Israel tried to manage the remaining Palestinian population through ...

Hamas Isn’t The Target, It’s The Excuse
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—If you’re just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and ...