Sao Paulo (Special to Informed Comment) – Recently, after the American military action that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Bagdad, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that “Brazil supports any action against terrorism around the world, and so should the entire international community”, and also that “the country has absolutely no intentions to take advantage […]
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Middle East
Paper Tiger? Iran is Talking Big after US Assassination of Soleimani, but Has Few Options
By Thembisa Fakude | @fakudet | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most plausible reason why President Trump ordered the assassination of the Iranian general commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, is to shift attention away from the ongoing impeachment process in the US media. Soleimani and the commander of […]
Making America Hated Again: Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Chant “Death to America” at Soleimani Funeral in Baghdad
Prime Minister Adil Abdulmahdi Attended the Funeral
Trump’s Soleimani Assassination: It’s All about the Oil
(48Hills.org) – Reese Erlich, who has reported from the region for 20 years, sorts out the impact of Trump’s drone attack that killed a popular Iranian general. On Jan. 2 a US drone fired a missile on a car caravan leaving the Baghdad airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani and leaders of Iraqi militia […]
Trump Unites Iran and Iraq . . . against the United States
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As is always the way with Western colonialists, Trump administration figures such as secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave it out on Friday that the people of Iran are dying for the United States to invade and occupy them, and are just tickled pick that the US assassinated Gen. Qasem […]
US-Iran War Drums Show the Perils in Trump’s Policy of going it Alone
By Klaus W. Larres | – President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into […]
Trump’s New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq
Boston (Special to Informed Comment) – The last day of 2019 saw a huge contrast between scenes of New Year’s joy in Times Square in the United States with interminable conflict and a kind of US global dictatorship at the periphery, in Iraq. There, if the US kills militia members who are part of the […]
No Fair! Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East
Political Cartoon | – “No Fair! Iran put its Country right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East h/t Middle East Eye
Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?
By Mustafa Fetouri | – Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament seeking approval for its plans to send troops to Libya. The parliament approved the bill Thursday, given that the president’s AK Party has a majority in the chamber. The vote was originally planned for 7 January, after the winter […]
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