Marking the latest and most ambitious attempt to bring stability to the region, the United Nations announced Wednesday that every single person in the Middle East will receive his or her own sovereign nation as part of a historic 317,000,000-state solution. The broad and extensive compromise, which affects …
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Middle East Quickly Running Out Of Land Area For Violence To Spill Over To
Confirming that only a few square miles currently remain, a report released Tuesday by the United Nations warned that the Middle East is rapidly running out of available land for violence to spill over to. “As more and more of the region’s land area is consumed by armed …
Read More »The Israeli-Saudi Alliance Does it go deeper than a mutual antipathy to Iran?
Suddenly the news of a Saudi-Israeli-Gulf states alliance is all over the news, and we’re shocked – shocked! – that such strange bedfellows have been found in bed together. Readers of Antiwar.com, however, are neither shocked nor surprised, since that breaking news broke here months if not years …
Read More »THE 1919 U.S. PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched a theologian named Henry King and a plumbing-parts magnate named Charles Crane to sort out the Middle East. Amid the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, the region’s political future was uncertain, and the two men seemed to provide …
Read More »Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. invasion of Iraq helped create the …
Read More »Susan Rice Won’t Tell the Truth About Why Americans Can’t Inspect Iran
According to paragraph 67 of the new nuclear deal with Iran, IAEA inspectors in charge of monitoring the agreement may only be “from nations that have diplomatic relations with Iran.” This means that no inspectors will be American (unless the U.S. unexpectedly reestablishes the diplomatic ties with Iran that it severed …
Read More »HACKING TEAM AND BOEING SUBSIDIARY ENVISIONED DRONES DEPLOYING SPYWARE
There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from the Italian company Hacking Team, which makes off-the-shelf software that …
Read More »A PESSIMIST’S GUIDE TO THE WORLD IN 2015
Worst-case scenarios for 2015 SYRIA Violence from Syria spills over into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and beyond after Islamic State and the Assad regime defeat the last vestiges of the moderate opposition. ISRAEL A third Palestinian uprising against Israel breaks out after the March elections. It turns …
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