America and the Middle East
HAFED AL-GHWELL June 18, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/mzpsu For more than half a century, US engagement across the Arab region, and the wider world, has been premised on “preventive diplomacy,” […]
The bizarre case of Youssef Nada and Switzerland’s role in the ‘War on Terror’
Foreign affairs This is the story of how an Egyptian businessman living in an Italian enclave in Switzerland ended up in the crosshairs of the Swiss and American judiciary. This content was published […]
Noam Chomsky: The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou September 8, 2021. Truthout. Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked […]
US exploited 9/11 to reshape Islamic world, but ended up weaker
By Nadia Helmy Published: Sep 13, 2021 A vendor selling Taliban flags waits by the roadside in Kabul on Thursday. Photo: AFPThe end of the Cold War constituted a major […]
Afghanistan: The amorphous American empire is alive and well
Hamid Dabashi 27 September 2021 The permanent crisis of the neoliberal economy demands a far more versatile empire than one that gets bogged down in any single country US President […]
Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars
AN INTERVIEW WITH NOAM CHOMSKY Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he […]
How anti-Muslim sentiment has gone mainstream
Life & Aging Two decades of the “War on Terror” has had a drastic effect on the lives of Muslims in western countries.This content was published on September 21, 2021 – Since […]
Why is Biden Prosecuting Assange for Telling the Truth about Afghanistan? | Opinion
OPINION DANIEL ELLSBERG, ALICE WALKER AND NOAM CHOMSKY , ASSANGE DEFENSEON 9/10/21 AT 1:10 PM EDT As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a wrenching reassessment […]
9/11 should have led to a criminal investigation, not a war
The challenge on this anniversary is to understand how and why the West elected to promote al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US – a 21st-century equivalent of the Soviet […]
The lessons learned from 9/11 … and those that weren’t
YOSSI MEKELBERG September 11, 2021 21:44208 Short Url https://arab.news/w5ybm No watershed in post-Cold War US politics and international affairs has been more remarkable than 9/11. It was a defining moment by […]
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected By Nelly Lahoud September/October 2021 On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign […]
Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan“We Lost the War in Afghanistan in 2002”
Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan“We Lost the War in Afghanistan in 2002” The war on terror has failed, former FBI intelligence officer Ali Soufan argues in an interview. He believes […]
Ending America’s Endless War
We Must Stop Giving Terrorists Exactly What They Want By Bernie Sanders June 24, 2019 The United States has been at war for too long. Even today, we seem to be […]
Absolutely not
Absolutely not Ayesha Ijaz Khan Published July 3, 2021 PAKISTAN lost 83,000 lives and the war on terror cost the country almost $126 billion, according to a statement made earlier this […]
The lies and conspiracy theories from neocon ‘crazies’ that fueled Iraq war are subject of new history
BY PHILIP WEISSMAY 12, 2021 SCOTT HORTON, FROM APPEARANCE AT ISRAEL LOBBY CONFERENCE, APRIL 24, 2021. SCREENSHOT. ENOUGH ALREADY: TIME TO END THE WAR ON TERRORISMby Scott Horton318 pp. The Libertarian […]
America’s war on terror that followed 9/11 has displaced 37 million people – this is the true cause of Europe’s refugee crisis
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Independent By Patrick Cockburn, who is an award-winning Independent columnist […]
At Least 37 Million People Displaced by US War on Terror, Study Finds
Source: Sputnik A new report by the Costs of War Project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced by the US War on Terror; however, the […]
Mnar Muhawesh: Nearly 8 Million Muslim Casualties In US-Led War On Terror
MintPress founder and editor in chief, Mnar Muhawesh, joins RT America to discuss the misconceptions about the war on terror and the true costs of war. by Mnar Muhawesh The biggest misconception about the war on terror is that it started in 2003 with the US invasion of Iraq and […]
Moderate Islam in the Maghreb: How US foreign policy shapes Islamist contention
April 4, 2019 Since the beginning of the U.S-led war on terror, a handful of Muslim-majority states have begun to brand themselves on the international stage as a source of […]
Imran Khan: Pakistan will no longer be America’s hired gun
Source: Telegraph Fighting America’s war on terror has cost Pakistan its dignity, Imran Khan said By Ben Farmer, Islamabad Pakistan will no longer be America’s “hired gun” to fights its […]