The Middle East

Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations in the world for human traffickers, slave labor and sex trafficking. It is out of control.

Biden’s visit comes on the heels of the U.S. government’s whitewashing of Israel’s assassination of beloved Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

What Israelis refuse to face is the fact that governments which are predicated on rightwing, far-right, extremist constituencies are inherently unstable.

In the U.S., reports of the killing seem poised to lay the blame on Israel, even if not stating it outright – with the exception of The New York Times where it’s business as usual, covering for Israel at all costs.

While prolonging the siege will achieve no short or long-term strategic value, lifting the siege, from Israel’s viewpoint, would be admitting defeat and, possibly, empower Palestinians.

More than 465,000 Syrians have been killed in the Syrian civil war and over 12 million have been displaced.

Predictions regarding Israel's grim future are not confined to the country's political elites.

Israel is now facing the dilemma of either ignoring this new Palestinian factor, at its own peril, or accepting the inescapable fact that Israel can never enjoy stability while Palestinians remain occupied, confined, and oppressed.

Palestinians are organizing CSA programs and small farms to become food sovereign and protect their culture against colonialism.

For 25 years, Abu Akleh had documented Israeli war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory for Al Jazeera.

Shireen Abu Akleh was a leading journalist who had worked for Al Jazeera for 25 years. She was killed on May 11th.

Since the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last August and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the White House has been desperate to showcase U.S. strength on the world stage. But the Biden administration has struggled to rally traditional Middle Eastern allies against Russia, raising questions over U.S. influence in the region.

When almost all of Gaza's water is not fit for human consumption because of a deliberate Israeli strategy, one can understand why Palestinians continue to fight back as if their lives are dependent on it; because they are.

The ghastly blockade and bombardment of Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is now entering its eighth year.

Frieda Afary: Unlike some other imperialist powers who have tried to put a humanitarian or feminist cover on their brutal invasions, Putin finds no need to hide the intentions of Russian imperialism.

Eric Cheyfitz: Increasingly, it appears there is an open-season on Palestinian lives, including children, both by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and settlement vigilantes.

Robert Koehler: Afghanistan in 2022 is shaping up to be one of the worst, possibly the worst, humanitarian catastrophe on record, for any country.