May 02 2013

Even if it is true that Assad is employing chemical weapons, writes Peter Manson, Obama does not want to act in a way that would trigger the total breakdown of the Syrian state

April 04 2013

US provocation in the Korean peninsula has the potential to destabilise the entire region, argues Eddie Ford

March 08 2013

Against the background of rising tensions in the region, the threat of new war and political, social and economic disintegration in Iran we present this interview

February 07 2013

Yassamine Mather reports on the chaos that is the Islamic Republic

December 06 2012

A UN vote giving increased recognition to Palestine has produced an Israeli show of contempt, writesTony Greenstein

December 06 2012

Torab Saleth reviews: Ervand Abrahamian, 'The coup: 1953, the CIA and the roots of modern US-Iranian relations', New Press, 2013, pp304, £16.84

November 22 2012

The mainstream narrative of Israel, Palestine and the middle east is a Big Lie, writes Tony Greenstein

November 15 2012

The US presidential election of 2012 is less interesting for the victory of Barack Obama than for the debacle of the Republican Party, writes Jim Creegan

November 08 2012

The absence of a viable working class alternative means American voters are treated as fools, argues Paul Demarty

November 01 2012

Barack Obama hardly represents a rampart against Republican extremism, as some on the left still maintain. Jim Creegan looks at the state of play in the final week of the election campaign