Will the Middle East end up missing 'U.S. imperialism'?
U.S. energy self-sufficiency will have far-reaching political and geo-strategic ramifications for the Middle East. Will the bad old days of 'U.S. imperialism' then be missed?
- 6 June 2013
Will Obama let Iran start World War III?
Will Obama wait to see if Iran is foolhardy enough to force Israel’s hand and start World War III? Or will he lead?
- 8 February 2013
Obama: "Send me somewhere east of Suez..."
Obama is happily making himself look like a fool in Southeast Asia while those in opposition continue to lick their wounds
- 20 November 2012
Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
If, as looks increasingly likely, conflict over Iran’s nuclear ambitions is approaching, two things are clear: Shia Iran’s Sunni ‘friends’ will not stand with them and, Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
- 28 September 2012
A letter to my Member of Parliament
A letter to Glenda Jackson MP on Iran and Israel's right to existence
- 24 September 2012
The UN, Ahmadinejad, and atonement
The United Nations is failing yet again, this time vis-à-vis Iran and the egregious Ahmadinejad
- 24 September 2012
Gunter Grass and his words have caused damage but they will not accomplish the triumph of evil
A lot of damage has been done by useful idiots for the Iranian totalitarian dictatorship – Gunter Grass being the most recent example. But there is one thing these people won’t accomplish: the triumph of evil
- 10 April 2012
Why de-nuking Iran won’t mean WWIII – or an oil crisis
De-nuking Iran would only cause a short-term blip in the global oil market and it would actually elicit a collective sigh of relief in the corridors of power from Riyadh to Amman to Cairo – not just in Tel Aviv
- 29 March 2012
Another “Mad“ Mehdi Hasan howler on Iran, Israel and the bomb
Senior New Statesman editor Mehdi Hasan again displays more laugh-out-loud ignorance of foreign affairs, this time in the Guardian
- 26 March 2012
The Economist and its "Auschwitz Complex"
Does the Economist really think the sun never sets on the Israeli "empire"?
- 14 March 2012
How Obama might just have helped secure a second term by soothing his critics on Israel
That title may be over-egging the pudding somewhat but, boy, did Barack Obama do a rousing job in front of America’s biggest pro-Israel gathering of the year
- 4 March 2012
Netanyahu, Obama, Iran? It's all kicking off at AIPAC
AIPAC's yearly conference is providing a platform for some of the biggest issues concerning Israel and the US
- 4 March 2012
The politics of a strike on Iran
To say the Iranian issue is somewhat complex is an understatement of nuclear proportions. Indeed, the politics at play make the outlook overwhelmingly bleak
- 20 February 2012
Will we have the guts to back a military strike on Iran?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution that, "In the coming days the world will witness Iran's announcement of its very important and very major nuclear achievements."
- 12 February 2012
Britain’s agenda of anti-Israeli hate and the deadly new triangle in the MidEast
As Islamist extremists take power in Egypt and beyond, the New Statesman publishes a vicious, defamatory trash job on Israel’s democratic traditions
- 6 February 2012
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