Middle East

THE HOUSE OF Representatives on Monday voted 366-30 to declare what has long been known — that it has not authorized U.S. action in support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, but other than urging the parties to come to a negotiated solution, the resolution did not actually do anything to end American participation in …

LAST MONTH, WARPLANES belonging to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen repeatedly bombed a wedding party in the northern part of the country, killing more than 20 people, including the bride, and injuring dozens of others. In the days that followed, local media published a photograph of a bomb fragment with a serial …

“The US road to hell is littered with broken treaties,” has said American writer and political analyst Daniel Patrick Welch while commenting on Washington’s violation of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.

Peter Temin says 80 per cent of the population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security 

The 10th of Ordibehesht in Iran’s calendar has been designated as the National Persian Gulf Day to highlight its historical identity.

The US has experienced “aggressive” electronic warfare from its “adversaries” in Syria, a top US general said. While media pointed finger at Russia, it denied involvement, saying it has better things to do than harass US aircraft.

Witnesses of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged.

The media reaction to the US-French-British strikes on Syria early in the morning of 14 April has been quite distinct in the USA versus Europe, and then still more differentiated from the reaction of Russian media.

This news item, covered by a Russian news source shows us how poorly the western media has covered the Syrian war and, in particular, how biased its reportage has become as it swallows Washington’s Russophobic attitude wholeheartedly.

A major new report makes the case for a ‘fusion movement’ against systemic racism, poverty and inequality, militarism and the war economy, and ecological devastation.