The Cradle | January 9, 2023 According to Iraqi media reports, US defense systems at the Ain al-Assad military base in Iraq’s western Anbar province brought down an unidentified drone that was able to bypass the facility’s security and reach “inaccessible” areas of the base. An anonymous military source was quoted by Iraq’s Al-Maalouma news agency as […]
Press TV – January 6, 2023 Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has paid tribute to top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport three years ago, stating that their targeted killings were actually “a brazen attack” on […]
If public opinion doesn’t match up with the Washington program then it must be wrong, misunderstood, or worse, irrelevant. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Responsible Statecraft | January 6, 2023 Tell us, Washington, how do you really feel about American public opinion? For years now, Beltway establishmentarians have been trying desperately to countermand the idea … … Continue reading →
Press TV – January 2, 2023 Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the assassination of the country’s top anti-terror commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani by the United States is a “glaring example of an organized terrorist act.” The ministry made the remark in a Monday statement, issued to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of Gen. […]
When U.S. President George W. Bush, on 7 September 2002, said that the IAEA had just come out with a “new report” concluding that Saddam Hussein was only six months away from having a nuclear weapon, and the IAEA three times denied it, the President’s allegation grew into, and became the basis for, America’s ‘justification’ […]
The damning exposure of collusion between the Pentagon and Twitter raises further suspicions about Washington’s ongoing online operations in West Asia By Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle | December 27, 2022 The Cradle has previously deconstructed the Pentagon’s online bot and troll operations targeting Iran. These wide-ranging efforts, over many years, sought to destabilize the Iranian government by disseminating […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator King Abdullah II of Jordan vowed on December 16 that “anyone who raises a weapon against the state will be dealt with firmly”. Yesterday, three more policemen were killed in the same area that saw the murder of the deputy police chief on Thursday and the wounding of two […]
Eric Zuesse The U.S. Government has invaded and destroyed many countries that posed no actual national-security danger to America, such as Iraq on 20 March 2003, and all on the basis purely of lies. Even if one forgets that the war in Ukraine started in February 2014 and that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 […]
By Viktor Mikhin – New Eastern Outlook – 10.12.2022 Western countries, above all the United States, are seeking to replicate Afghanistan and Iraq scenario in Iran, creating chaos to destroy the country and loot its resources, Scott Bennett, a former US Army Special Operations Officer, said honestly and truthfully. “The West is fully committed to […]
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | December 7, 2022 The problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are of direct interest to Western governments. These types of analyses are now being applied to understanding official Arab attitudes towards Russia, China, global […]
