By Aram Mirzaei for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog Since October, riots and unrest have wrecked havoc across Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Iraq has suffered the worst as reports suggest over 300 people have been killed in the riots. In ...
Read More »Can Russia (or Iran) survive without China?
[this analysis was written for the Unz Review] In a recent article entitled “China, Bolivia and Venezuela are proof that social democracy cannot thrive in the global capitalist order” my China-based friend and correspondent Jeff J. Brown asked me an exceedingly interesting and ...
Read More »Russia’s kidnapping problem
[this article was written for the Unz Review] No, this will not be an article about Russians kidnapped in Chechnia (that was a very long time ago) or somewhere in a combat zone. I will be talking about the USA and ...
Read More »Iran vs Saudi Arabia: it’s game-over
by Ghassan Kadi for The Saker Blog Is the attack on ARAMCO the first of a long war or is it game-over already? It seems like the latter and in more ways than one, the war between Iran and Saudi ...
Read More »Resistance report: Syrian Army takes the initiative in Idlib while Washington blames its failures on Tehran again
By Aram Mirzaei for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog August was an eventful month for the Syrian Army and its allies as the battle for northwestern Syria saw a breakthrough after months of static frontline movements. Just like in the ...
Read More »Venezuela and Iran in the Crosshairs of Murderers Inc – Who is Next?
by Peter Koenig for Ooduarere via The Saker blog Imagine just for a moment, the World would stand up in unison, sick and tired of the aggressive killer arrogance of the United States and her vassals – and their joint ...
Read More »War Gaming the Persian Gulf Conflict: Have you forgotten that you provided adult diapers for your soldiers in tanks, Iranian General replies Trump
By Blake Archer Williams for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog Greetings from Tehran, the “Capital of the free world” (E. Michael Jones). A few days ago, Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, had a brief post on Colonel Patrick Lang’s weblog, Sic Semper ...
Read More »PEPE ESCOBAR: US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with Consortium News – by special agreement with the author) All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end ...
Read More »Iran’s Qods Force And Modern Proxy Wars
Based on the analysis prepared by Dennis M. Nilsen, PhD exclusively for SouthFront The Qods Force is the irregular warfare unit of Iran’s Corps of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enghelab-e Eslami). Created during the Holy Defense to augment the capabilities ...
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