The US's Afghan Exit May Depend on a Syrian One
Washington’s options in Syria are dwindling - and dwindling fast. Trumped up chemical weapons charges against the Syrian government this month failed to produce evidence to convince a skeptical global...
View ArticleFreedumbAndDemocrazy
Freedom and democracy. How I have come to loathe this phrase. Two-lofty-words-and-a-conjunction bandied around by handmaidens of Empire: verbal grenades that can gut entire nations. When I hear...
View ArticleArabs, Beware the "Small States" Option
At the heart of all politics lies cold, hard opportunism. New circumstances, changed alliances and unexpected events will always conspire to alter one’s calculations to benefit a core agenda.In the...
View ArticleWhy Western media frames civilian areas as “Hezbollah strongholds”
Beirut was thrown into turmoil on Thursday evening as a terrorist attack against residents of Dahiyeh - a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital and a predominantly Shia neighborhood - threatened to...
View Article"Bandar ibn Israel"
The recent acts of political violence in the Middle East’s Levant are not unrelated. Car bombings in the predominantly Shia southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh; twin bombings targeting Sunni mosques in...
View ArticleYes, Syria and Hezbollah Will Hit Israel if US Strikes
Informed insiders have confirmed that Syria and Hezbollah plan to retaliate against Israel in the event of an American-led military attack on Syria. Says one: “if even one US missile hits Syria, we...
View ArticleQuestions Plague UN Report on Syria
By Sharmine Narwani and Radwan MortadaA senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta...
View ArticleForget Democrazy, Give Me Safe Borders
Almost three years after the Arab Spring began its region-wide sweep - ostensibly in search of democratic change - scant attention has been paid to one of its most dangerous consequences: the fraying...
View ArticleDeal or No Deal, Iran's Stock Keeps Rising
The recent high-drama nuclear negotiations in Geneva were riveting, to be sure. Old foes shuttled between conference rooms, chatted amiably in corridors, colluded to guard the sensitive details of...
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"Security Arc" forms amidst Mideast terror
Many observers are correct in noting that the Middle East is undergoing yet another seismic shift - that the Russian-brokered destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, a US-Iranian...
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