Saudi Arabia’s bitter rivalry with Iran has spilled onto Asian soccer pitches with the newly created South West Asian Football Federation (SWAFF) reflecting the kingdom’s bid for
Oman doesn’t like to take sides. In an increasingly polarized region, the oft-ignored Sultanate stands out for its efforts to seek common ground, finding paths
Editor’s Note: What follows is the executive summary of a recent report from the International Crisis Group, “Iran’s Priorities in a Turbulent Middle East,” which tries to
After the U.S. launched “limited” airstrikes on Friday against Syria, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced that the U.S. will maintain its illegal presence
Any miscalculated escalation in Syria could result in an all-sided fight that could spill beyond the Middle East alone. In Russia, state broadcasters are now
The foreign ministers of Russia and China have jointly denounced what they described as efforts by the United States to unilaterally change negotiated treaties ranging
President Trump has complained publicly that only cosmetic changes to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA also known more informally as the Iran nuclear
I recently reread Michael Mann’s book, Incoherent Empire, which he wrote in 2003, soon after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Mann is a sociology professor at UCLA
“We are Aryans, we don’t worship Arabs” and “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon; I sacrifice my life for Iran” were just two of the bigoted and
The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around
A Vox video (7/17/17) is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald
This is a big week in geopolitics. Seismic shifts have occurred and most of us are not yet aware of it. In short, the unipolar
It is nearly 50 years since Abolhassn Banisadr began to develop his revolutionary interpretation of Islam, releasing it from the various discourses of power that
Brockman, John (ed.), This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works, Harper Perennial, 2013. In 1997, the Reality Club, which
Since 1991, following the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the United States has expanded its global power
1) Iran already has nuclear war heads. They have had them for almost a decade now – and Israel knows about it. The IRGC purchased
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Key words: Socialness of the body, Body-Reflexive practice, Gender practice, Plurality of gender identity,
The horror film or the science fiction book often starts like that, doesn’t it, with small seemingly unrelated facts, harbingers of the end? One fly
Mr. Nooriala makes a large number of serious errors in his article. It is obvious that Mr. Nooriala is a not a political scientist and
Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the
PLEASE READ FIRST: Two years ago I wrote a post here about how the regime calculated it could get away with rigging the 2009 election
Executive Summary For centuries only Great Britain and its former colonies; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and United States could be called democratic. And even in
The Norwegian police charged a 32-year-old man on Saturday, who was identified by the Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik on charges related to bombing
I’ve been researching Persian religions for a while now, mainly bahaism and Zoroasterianism, and while doing so I came across these sayings of abdul-baha. For
