Middle East
U.S. citizen and her child arrested in Egypt over Facebook posts
July 15, 2019Trump says Egypt's dictator is a “close friend and a great president” who has been doing a “fantastic job.”
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Trump’s drive to war with Iran intensifies by the day
July 1, 2019Photo-ops on Korean peninsula don’t reduce the dangerous push by the US toward war in the Middle East.
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Lawmakers try to block Trump’s latest 22 Saudi arms deals
June 5, 2019Trump is trying “an end run” around Congress.
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Hoping memories of Iraq have faded, U.S. hawks push new war with Iran
May 21, 2019If the U.S. has proved itself an unreliable partner in peace, if its policy can change at a moment’s notice, why is it worth trusting in the first place?
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Iranian Communists rally progressive forces to prevent war
May 16, 2019The Tudeh Party noted a “worrying rise of tensions between the racist, pseudo-fascist, and reactionary Trump administration and the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
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