Lebanon: A new theater opens for Iran and Saudi Arabia?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Amidst simmering crises in the Middle East, Lebanon finds itself in the thick of things as Saudi Arabia on Monday...
MQM rejects census results, demands “true population record”
Farah Adeed | The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has been facing existential threats for the last several years. Party leaders have expressed it many times. The...
Paradise Leaks reveals the corruption and criminality of capitalism
Jaweria Waheed | The Paradise Leaks follow as a sequel to last year’s Panama Papers and offer an unusually vivid and skewed view of the...
Beyond big game hunting: the ‘Quadrilateral’ meeting
Suhasini Haidar | By accepting an invitation to join the Japan-proposed, U.S.-endorsed plan for a “Quadrilateral” grouping including Australia to provide alternative debt financing for...
Will Saudi Princes accept MBS crackdown on corrupt officials?
M K Bhadrakumar | Within hours of a decree by the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Sunday announcing the constitution of a new committee...
The Middle East: It will only get worse
James M. Dorsey | As Saudi Arabia reels from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s frontal assault on the kingdom’s elite, indications are that the Saudi-Iranian proxy...
Former PM Shaukat Aziz finds his name in the “Paradise Papers”
News Analysis | Former prime minister, Shaukat Aziz found his name in the list of people in the Paradise Papers, released by the International Consortium...
Philippines and US’s first time meeting: Reality and expectations
Jumel G. Estrañero | The first time is always the first time and this week, a political first time meet-up will be witnessed in the...
Use ZINC to get yourself in sync!
Lubna Khan | With these beautiful seasonal changes, a lot of us have started to feel under the weather, here is something that can definitely...
Will US succeed in creating rifts between Iran & Iraq?
M K Bhadrakumar| The US project to create a rift between Iraq and Iran backfired just a couple of days of its launch from Riyadh...
The Wild Week In Mideast Geopolitics
Andrew Korybko | This past week was geopolitically very eventful for the Mideast, even by the region's dynamic standards, which shows that a new international...
US regime-change operations are a reality!
Jacob G. Hornberger | With the National Archives’ impending October 26 release of JFK-assassination records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more...