Consortium News: History of US Activism for Palestine

By As`ad AbuKhalil. While their  ultimate impact should not be exaggerated, the protests for Palestine taking place on U.S. college campuses are historic. There is a long history of muted protests for Palestine on college campuses.  Imagine, Palestine never drew the attention of the American left in the 1960s and 1970s.  Few Americans knew the

Declassified UK: 13 British Lords Linked to Israel’s Arms Trade

By John McEvoy. Over a dozen members of Britain’s unelected upper chamber work for, or profit from, arms firms linked to Israel. Seven peers work for arms firms involved with Israel’s weapons trade, while another six hold shares in companies that supply the Israeli military, our research into the House of Lords has found. The

Responsible Statecraft: Bankers upgrade Lockheed stock after Iran strikes at Israel

By Nick Cleveland-Stout. The American company has played an outsized role in Tel Aviv’s bombing and invasion of Gaza since Oct. 7 Over the weekend, Iran launched over 300 missiles at Nevatim Air Base, a base in southern Israel that houses U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who oversaw a strike on

RIAC: Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea: Impact on the Yemen Crisis

By Sergey Serebrov. The U.S.-British coalition’s military intervention in Yemen has become the most dangerous expansion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (PIC), taking a heavy toll on the security in the Middle East and creating a parallel hotbed of military standoff in the Red Sea. There is no consensus in the region’s countries on the root

Dissident Voice: Israel’s “Flour Massacre”: When A Crime Becomes A “Tragedy”

By Media Lens. Corporate journalists are indeed ‘masters of self-adulation’, as Noam Chomsky has observed. In fact, they have to be; or at least they have to appear to be. Consider BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson CBE, a long-term sparring partner and rare example of a BBC journalist who has bothered to reply to

Russia Today: George Galloway is not a threat to democracy – only to the elite hypocrites running the UK

By Graham Hryce. The returning politician’s recent electoral win on the back of the Gaza-Israel debate is rightfully alarming for both Labour and Tories Last week’s exchange of insults between newly elected MP George Galloway and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted the festering political divisions that have recently emerged in Western democracies over the ongoing

Rai al-Youm: Saving Israel from itself

By Abdel Bari Atwan. The US and UK are trying, but getting only ingratitude and trouble The deep state in the US knows that the future of the state of Israel was put in jeopardy by the al-Qassam Brigades’ Operation al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October last year. That is why it is trying to come

Asharq Al-Awsat: The Land of Wars, Surprises and Earthquakes

By Ghassan Charbel. The developments in the Middle East are not simple. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood unleashed an earthquake and the very next day, it sparked a limited war launched by Hezbollah across the Lebanese-Israeli border. A decision is in place to prevent that war from spiraling out of control. Soon after, pro-Iran factions in Iraq

Foreign Affairs: How the War in Gaza Revived the Axis of Resistance

By Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr. Iran and Its Allies Are Fighting With Missiles and Memes On January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. These attacks were a response to the group’s assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which have disrupted global trade.

RT: Will the ‘gates of hell’ open in the Middle East?

By Murad Sadygzade. The US-led attacks on Yemen’s Houthis are another step towards a full-blown regional war, which can only be prevented by resolving the Israel-Palestine crisis The first month of 2024, as well as the previous few years, were marked by further escalations in the Middle East. This time, on January 12, the US