The media cannot look at the causes of the 9/11 attacks even 20 years later. But Al Qaeda perpetrated the bombings because the U.S. was an occupying military force in Saudi Arabia. A 1998 declaration of war by Osama bin Laden cites two other issues: the “devastation” of Iraq by U.S. sanctions including the alleged deaths of 1 million Iraqis, and the effort by the U.S. to “fragment” Arab nations and leave them as “paper statelets” so as to insure the survival of Israel.

As the tragedy in Afghanistan continues, there is at least one positive consequence. The warmongers in Israel and their allies in the neoconservative Washington, D.C. war party will find it even harder to convince the American public to support an invasion and “regime change” in Iran.

Once again, the danger of conflict between Israel and Iran is rising. Once again, the mainstream U.S. media is either ignoring or distorting the news.

The New Yorker just reported that Trump nearly attacked Iran after he lost the election. But the threat was obvious, why wasn’t it reported back then?

The New York Times slants its coverage of the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal talks, leaving out the Israeli role.

Biden Bombs Syria and Iraq Another president, another four years of airstrikes in the Middle…

Israeli provocation inside the Al-Aqsa mosque made the recent fighting in Gaza a war of choice for Israeli leaders. US approval also made it a war of American permission.

The recent China-Iran strategic cooperation agreement will unquestionably benefit the Iranian government’s desire for foreign investment, a market for oil, and pushback against diplomatic isolation. But it is less certain that it will help the Iranian people.

This weekend, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement which will cover economic, political, and cultural relations. Juan Cole writes that China’s entry into Iran is the most consequential change in the geopolitics of the Middle East since the the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The ADL called Iran’s ‘Palestine Is Not Alone’ poster contest “dehumanizing propaganda”, but Dan Walsh of the Palestine Poster Project Archives says it actually serves as an opportunity to engage the public in a teachable moment on the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.