By Abdel Bari Atwan The Russians warned weeks ago that a chemical incident would be staged to justify a US attack on Syria Is an American missile strike on Syria imminent — possibly targeting the capital Damascus this time? That was certainly the impression given by US President …

POTUS Trump's new War Cabinet is on a collision course w/ the WORLD ???? Batshit crazy warmonger #JohnBolton & a roster of war hawks: Christian Fundamentalist #MikePompeo, Torturer #GinaHaspel & #MaddogMattis #Syria #Iran #Russia #NorthKoreahttps://t.co/r5kK2hAkZk@RaniaKhalek — Muse/Vent ????️#CeaseFireNOW #DeZionise (@MuseAndVent) April 10, 2018

President Trump’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review reflects an enduring struggle by the U.S. nuclear weapons establishment to fit into the post–Cold War world. For decades following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union built grossly oversized nuclear arsenals and never envisioned having to stop. …

By Shatha Al Juburi Fifteen years after the US and its allies invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, the country is still entrenched in a cycle of sectarian violence and rampant corruption. No one knows how many Iraqis have died. Some estimates put the number of deaths at more than …

By Alfred McCoy  Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The U.S. and Chinese navies have been repositioning warships and establishing naval bases as if they were so …

By Andrew England and Heba  Saleh Drastic reduction of state subsidies, inflation, unemployment, repression, galloping population … All the factors of the explosion of 2011 are still there. And are getting worse. “Friends were shot dead next to me, in front of me and behind me,” Soghayer recalls …