The US wants to isolate Iran from the global economy. Here is who Tehran trades with, and how much is at stake. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled a new wave of sanctions on Iran, branded “Operation Economic Outcast”, designating close to 60 entities, individuals and vessels and …

Alors que la guerre américano-israélienne contre l’Iran entre dans son sixième mois, l’attention se tourne vers la Chine et sa position dans ce conflit. Cependant, les calculs de Pékin ne se limitent pas à déterminer qui gagne et qui perd, mais portent davantage sur les répercussions de la guerre sur …

The ongoing war in the Middle East has revealed how the process of globalization has contributed to the weaponization of interdependence. Globalization, a process that intensified in the 1990s, was expected to bring the world closer than ever. One of its significant consequences was the interdependence among state actors and …

The American Middle East is finished. The regional order that has prevailed since 1991 has been one of the many casualties of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The American and Israeli failure to dislodge the regime in Tehran has proved the bankruptcy of decades of sanctions and violence. The inability …

Les médias occidentaux, en appliquant deux poids deux mesures, en pratiquant la censure, en utilisant un langage trompeur, en amplifiant les mensonges israéliens et en déshumanisant les Palestiniens, facilitent le génocide à Gaza. Les médias occidentaux fabriquent le consentement au génocide. Ils normalisent l’occupation militaire et l’apartheid israéliens, qui durent …

America’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy (Part 3) The United States gained independence from British colonies, seizing hegemony over the New World from its mother country. More than two centuries later, it used a sophisticated strategy of sowing discord to drag its former colonial power out of the European Union. Thus, the Britain …

In launching its newly announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” the Trump administration’s primary beachhead should be the UAE, which has signaled a shift in the right direction but will need targeted U.S. help with cutting off illicit Iranian transactions. On August 19, two days after announcing that the U.S. memorandum of …

The Germans have just caught another alleged member of the group that bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. Volodymyr Zhuravlev, a deep-sea diver, was detained last week in the Croatian coastal city of Pula. In a fantastical turn of events, he had reportedly been acting as a …

Why should Egypt be searching for a formula that would facilitate Hamas’s return to Palestinian politics? Should Egypt and the rest of the international community not instead be demanding that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad surrender their weapons, dismantle their military structures, and disappear from Palestinian political life? This new …

The Western commentariat filed the Mecca agreement under a comfortable heading. When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7 — an armed attack on one to be treated as an attack on all — the reflexive label was “Islamic NATO,” a Sunni bloc, …