Tag: Middle East

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either...

RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Strip away the communiqués about the embattled Strait of Hormuz and look at the data, because in maritime commerce the data...

Pacific Media Watch Once again, the Strait of Hormuz is at the centre of the latest escalation in the war between Iran, the United States...

Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal has slammed public broadcasters ABC and SBS at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism for "anti-Israel bias" and called for...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean For four decades, the West presented Iran's regional strategy as the work of a rogue state exporting revolution and chaos. They...

COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara “Why is it that African teams and Middle Eastern teams have to answer for what their governments are doing but European...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, one of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US,...

Israel's legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean. ANALYSIS: By Lim...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean An Israeli cabinet minister has named the new Middle East on live radio --  and he named it in alarm. What Diaspora...

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The signing...

COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...

COMMENTARY: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Today the US and/or Israel have been attacking Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela. The US is also strangling Cuba with...

By Jake Wise in Suva Fiji will not be "militarily involved" in any of the conflicts currently involving the State of Israel, says the country's...

COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean In my view, the greatest source of instability in the Middle East today is the increasingly aggressive and expansionary posture of...

ANALYSIS: By Usaid Siddiqui For more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear programme has been subject to intense international scrutiny, sanctions and diplomatic negotiations. By contrast, while...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Why is US President Donald Trump carrying on with his State visit to Beijing this week on May 14? I wouldn't...

To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest...

ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations. Yet the world, filtered...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran...