Geography Archives: Middle East

The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

It’s significant that Jagmeet Singh raised Israel’s genocide at both leaders’ debates.

Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion.

As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

Capital Is Murder Capital was soaked in blood, steeped in urine, and “dripping from every pore” as it emerged from myriad colonial genocides perpetuated by white Europe.1 With the colonization of the Americas, the world was divided in two: the “white” and civilized European versus the “dark” and uncivilized savage. With the color line and […]

At least 38 people, including five paramedics, were killed by the U.S. bombing of the Ras Isa port in Hodeidah.

The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

The contradiction in the geographical distribution of Iraq’s population precisely reflects the contradiction in the distribution of wealth in capitalist society.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.

The only functioning hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service after an Israeli airstrike destroyed key medical departments.

Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.

The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.

Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’

Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We’re only human, mistakes happen.

There are many signs that Trump’s administration, supported by Israel, is intent on war with Iran, but the military realities point to a very dangerous quagmire, argues Chris Bambery.