Patrick Cockburn
Who Wins and Who Loses in the Iran Crisis?
January 15, 2020Demonizing the Shia: How the West Perpetuates False Claims About Iran’s Regional Influence
January 14, 2020Iran Will Make Huge Political Gains From This Crisis
January 10, 2020Trump’s Actions in Iraq Could Plunge the Country Into Crisis Once Again, Leaving Iran as Strong as Ever
January 8, 2020Iraq’s Worst Fears Have Come True: a Proxy War on Its Doorstep
January 6, 2020Why Did Labour Win in My Hometown, But Lose Across the Rest of the UK?
December 23, 2019Boris Johnson is the Luckiest Politician Alive
December 16, 2019Why the Resignation of Iraq’s Prime Minister May Not Stop the Mass Uprising on the Horizon
December 3, 2019A Tale of Two Princes
November 26, 2019Erdogan’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds is Still Happening
November 19, 2019How Iran-Backed Forces Are Taking Over Iraq
November 12, 2019David Cameron and the Decline of British Leadership
November 11, 2019Great Britain is Reaching for Nationalism Over Economic Sense
November 5, 2019Why Killing “High-Valued Targets” Like Baghdadi Won’t Destroy ISIS
November 1, 2019Baghdadi Had No Real Answer for the Crumbling of His Caliphate
October 31, 2019The Sectarian Civil Wars in the Middle East are Ending, Replaced by Uprisings Against Corruption
October 29, 2019How Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Backfired on Erdogan
October 16, 2019As Turkey Prepares to Slice Through Syria, the US has Cleared a New Breeding Ground for Isis
October 14, 2019Kurdish Fighters Always Feared Trump Would be a Treacherous Ally
October 11, 2019Iraq Protests: Death Toll Soars as Militias Target Protesters
October 9, 2019Iraq is in Revolt
October 7, 2019Just as Iraq Begins to Find Peace, It Once Again Becomes the Battleground for an American Proxy War
September 30, 2019The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
September 18, 2019Mugabe’s Rule Led Many to Dismiss Nationalism, But That Opened the Door to Something Much Worse
September 10, 2019Boris Johnson’s Slo-Motion Coup Eerily Recalls the Rise of Erdogan
September 3, 2019The British Still Haven’t Learned the Lessons of the Troubles
August 13, 2019Sectarianism is Alive and Well in Northern Ireland – and Boris Johnson is Recklessly Picking at the Scabs
August 6, 2019Britain’s National Breakdown Over Brexit
July 30, 2019Brexit, Britain and the Permanent Crisis in the Gulf
July 26, 2019Why Boris Johnson is Even More Dangerous Than Trump
July 23, 2019Horrific Pictures of Drowned Migrants Should not Distract us From the Fact That Far More People Die on EU Borders
July 2, 2019Trump May Already be in Too Deep to Avoid War With Iran
June 25, 2019The Dark Side of Brexit: Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Are Facing More and More Violence
June 17, 2019Why the US is Persecuting Assange
June 4, 2019Theresa May Was a Bad PM, But Her Resignation Will do Nothing to Arrest Britain’s Long-Term Decline
May 28, 2019The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran
May 14, 2019ISIS Feeds Off the Chaos of War
April 30, 2019Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
April 15, 2019