In a June 13 Washington Post article, former US ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad argued that the Trump administration's approach towards Iran - withdrawing from the nuclear deal and imposing crippling sanctions - has…

There is now so much shit on Trump, that the question is not whether he will be gone, but when! For many, if not most, Americans, the only pleasure to be had from Donald Trump’s…

The Bering Strait crossing, is a hypothetical bridge and tunnel spanning the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The…

As we all know, Trump filed for bankruptcy 4 times. He is a master at running of with other people’s money! He understands debt! He borrowed to build his empire. “I’m the king of debt.…

It wasn’t so long ago that Qassem Soleimani was celebrated in New Yorker magazine, with an article called the “Shadow Commander”. It was a prelude to the creation of a cult image for the General.…

by SRSrocco As the world continues to burn energy like there is no tomorrow, global oil and gas discoveries fell to another low in 2017.  And to make matters worse, world oil investment has dropped 45%…

The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald’s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America’s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to…

We are witnessing a revision of globalism as we know it. It is Trump, no less, that is walking away from TPP (trans-pacific partnership) and is speaking on the stump against NAFTA (the north America…

Earlier this week, Mr. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister published an article in an Iranian (English language newspaper) in response to a speech given by U.S. foreign secretary Mike Pompeo earlier this month. In his…

By Brian Resnick (edited by Baharmedia.net) As anti-Muslim rhetoric increases under Trump, more Americans are seeing Muslims as less than human. Many Americans will willingly admit they think other groups of people are “less evolved.”…

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.John Bolton visited Russia yesterday, and met with Putin. Trump now has a scheduled 'summit' with Putin. At the same time Russia and Saudi Arabia are increasing their oil production, and Iran's exports…

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…