By Peter Beinart (edited by Baharmedia.com) History empirically shows that economic pressure does change societies—but it mostly facilitates hardliners. Iran’s regime may be next. The United States has a long history of intervening overseas to…

By Juan Cole (edited by Baharmedia.net) Trump allegedly complained to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that after the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranians “think they can do anything they want.” Presumably Trump was referring to…

Iranians be careful. Forget America, Russia is Iran greatest enemy (and has always been). And more specifically, Putin, is the invisible hand behind Trump’s current wave of sanctions and verbal attacks on Iranians. If you…

by Hamid Dabashi (edited by baharmedia.net) Iranians know too well their history to allow a US-Saudi-Israeli alliance to change the Iranian regime. In the immediate aftermath of US President Donald Trump's announcement on May 8…

by Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh (edited by BaharMedia) “Albania will become a coordination center for fighters returning from ISIS to the Balkans,” announced Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during a joint press conference with Albanian…

Yes, the U.S. delivered a billion dollars in hard cash (from Iran’s frozen bank accounts) back to Iran after the JCPOA was signed! But a few months later, Iran put a deposit on new plane…

One in every five deaths in young adults is opioid-related in the United States: study Proportion of deaths that are opioid-related has increased by nearly 300 per cent in 15 years By Ana Gajic, Dr.…

by Caitlin Johnstone (edited by Baharmedia.net) They want you arguing over who should and shouldn't be called a terrorist based on what ideology you subscribe to and what color the latest killer's skin was. They…

One interesting outcome of the 2016 Presidential elections, was a revelation (for Democrats at least) and a confirmation for many (like me) that there are vast portions of the United States that are backward. The…

Roseanne Barr is supposed to be a sharp, shrewd, Jewish-American comedian, with a hefty net worth.  She is an accomplished actor, and producer. So, when I read her tweet this past week attacking Valerie Jarett…

By scrapping the nuclear deal, President Trump is following the established U.S. playbook of aiding Tehran. For decades, since the Iranian Revolution, the United States has engaged in a quasi-war with Tehran. Washington backed Saddam…

Some 17 years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban from power, Afghanistan remains one of the world’s poorest countries, highly dependent on foreign aid. In addition, Afghanistan is a land-locked nation that depends…

There was/is a twitter feed by Nazanin Boniadi, that was recently published on the web. It had over 500 comments under her tweet: “Utterly confused by people who admit that the IRI is a repressive…

By John Pavlovitz God doesn’t bless America. That’s not how this works. I’m sorry to break it to you, Bible Belt Christians—but that’s just how it is. I know this kinda wrecks the convenient narrative…

I still vividly remember Khomeini landing in Tehran, on an Air France 747 jet, chartered by the Government of France. Iranian’s legitimate effort to bring about democracy in the country (for the 3rd Time in…

Why would Tero Varjoranta, the deputy director general and the head of the department of safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) responsible for inspections of nuclear facilities in Iran resign? The answer is…

Well, well, well: we have an NRA press release announcing Oliver North's selection as its president. Oliver North’s background makes him in some ways the perfect choice for the modern NRA—whose primary activity, as its…

Modern Judaism as expressed by the State of Israel, is a European creation. It carries many of the same brutal elements of European Culture – like an air of superiority (European snobbishness), moral and economic…

East and West fundamentally misunderstand each other. It’s probably the source of most issues; and to some extent it explains constant inflammation and missteps on both sides. The differences are cultural. Generally speaking – most…

Jonathan Glennie Development is more than just achieving outcomes – it implies a different way of seeing the world and fellow human beings. In a world of poverty and injustice, who are the undignified? Is…

How was the United Kingdom complicit in undermining Iran’s budding democracy half a century ago? By Ray Takeyh In the years following World War II, Iran was a devastated country barely recovering from famine and…

Few people realize it's extraordinary impact on our lives Donna Hicks, PhD At about the same time that I realized the powerful role dignity played in resolving conflict, I also became aware of something else.…

A quote from C.S. Lewis, worth posting: I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher…

by Austin Cline A common American myth is that the U.S. Constitution grants freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The same myth may hold in other countries as well. This claim is common, but it rests on a…

In the United States, we place a high premium on freedom, and on the legal extension of that fundamental rights related to freedom and liberty. It is telling that the ‘right wing’ resistance to the…

From Moon of Alabama.org U.S. President Trump wants to end the nuclear agreement (pdf) with Iran and wants to eliminated Iranian forces in Syria which support the Syrian government. Something is being prepared to make that happen.…

From the dawn of human history, religion has played a major role people’s life. Psychologists explain that the human need for religious beliefs springs from basic features of human cognition that assumes that agents cause…

There is a war on religion in the U.S. and its being led by the Republican Party. The stench of religious hypocrisy is all over the Republican Party. When ordinary voters figure out that the…

MICHAEL MANDEL, (OCT 25, 2011) We have only two ways out of our current global economic mess: innovation and inflation. And as the saying goes, we should hope for the best (more innovation) and prepare…

ByEric Schulzke Hillary Clinton threw fresh fuel on the fire of post-election speculation about why Trump won the 2016 election, pointing to an array of causes ranging from Russian interference and former FBI director Jim…

By Emily Gaudette Data compiled and studied by a Redditor shows a positive correlation between a state's number of Trump supporters and high body weight. Hold onto your milkshakes, folks. Reddit user davedawg2000 constructed a…

Trump’s recent attacks on Amazon imply that he really doesn’t know what currently ‘Making America Great’ is (and backing the US Dollar)! The eDollar has trumped the Petro-Dollar! Data is worth more than Oil! Someone…

One of every 40 American adults cannot vote because of state laws that bar people with past felony convictions from casting ballots. Experts say racial disparities in sentencing have had a disproportionate effect on the…

Republicans are thwarting the will of the people. By Ari Berman “Both sides do it” is the narrative that somehow justifies the worst kind behavior and false equivalence spewed out in Washington. In fact, the GOP’s…

Here’s the core issue with McCabe’s firing: If in fact he did something wrong, he should be prosecuted. But cutting off his retirement is criminal.  Protecting people’s retirement is rule number 1 in governance. For…

As Bill Maher put it, so eloquently: “you can never be too rich to not be white trash!” And, yes, he was referring to The Donald! Recently, we had two wife beaters resign from his…

Multiple U.S. administrations have sent out ‘threats’, yet despite all the rhetoric nothing has translated to reality. Iran’s theocratic regime has continued to rule for 40 years. There has always been a loop hole. The…

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area. It is variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the…