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Abraham Accord: Experts Warn Trump Peace Deal a Precursor to War with Iran

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Abraham Accord: Experts Warn Trump Peace Deal a Precursor to War with Iran

The Abraham Accord, as it is known, is likely to expand the power of Gulf dictatorships and increase the number of devastating high-tech weapons in the Middle East, fueling further instability and bloodshed, a welcome prospect for neoconservative hawks and religious zealots who see the deal as fulfilling ancient prophecies about the end of the world. Above all, the deal can be seen as an attempt to present a united front against Iran for any potential future war — a conflict that would likely make Iraq and Afghanistan look mild by comparison.

Israel sets its sights on the Red Sea and Bab El-Mandeb

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Dr Adnan Abu Amer | MEMO | October 6, 2020

As long as the most important provisions of the Emirati-Israeli agreement are related to security and military relations, Israel will work to exploit the agreement to increase its influence in the Gulf. Meanwhile, the UAE is looking for control in the Gulf with the support of the US and Israel, so there is joint Israeli and Emirati work in Yemen to establish joint military bases and areas of influence, specifically on the island of Socotra, which would allow it to completely control the path that passes from India to the West, and penetrates into Africa, which is a strategic location for Israel.

Israel sets its sights on the Red Sea and Bab El-Mandeb

André Vltchek’s Sudden Death

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André Vltchek’s Sudden Death

EDITOR’S NOTE: CounterPunch received word from Rossi Indira, Andre’s partner who was with him at the time of his death, that Andre died from complications with diabetes. Andre had been very ill for several weeks prior to his death, he could barely walk and one of his legs was paralyzed. Rossi tells us that he also refused medical treatment. Andre’s funeral is being held in Istanbul.

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Telling the Untold: Remembering Andre Vltchek (1963-2020)

The Time of Troubles in Transcaucasia – Part 1

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Three days into the renewed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Transcaucasian region — also known as South Caucasus — it is becoming clear that the binary narrative dished out by western commentators of this being a Turkish-Russian clash of wills and strategies is either simply naive or purposively deceptive. The point is, Russia and Turkey — and Iran in a somewhat supportive role — are already proactively talking of negotiations involving the warring sides.

The Time of Troubles in Transcaucasia – Part 1

Judge Barrett represented Iranian exile group in fight to end terrorist designation

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Judge Barrett represented Iranian exile group in fight to end terrorist designation

The MEK formed as a militant group in opposition to Iran’s monarchy but was forced into exile after the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah. The State Department designated the MEK as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, citing its involvement in the killing of Americans in Iran during the 1970s. The department, which also cited a 1992 incident in which five men with knives invaded the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York, said the NCRI “functioned as part of the MEK” and “supported the MEK’s acts of terrorism.”

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MEK, THE MOST HATED AMONG IRANIANS — FROM TERROR TO PROPAGANDA

Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else

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Clearly, a huge majority of the world’s governments, to include the closest U.S. allies, no longer buy the American big lie when it claims to be the leader of the free world, a promoter of liberal democracy and a force for good. The vote prompted one observer, John Whitbeck, a former international lawyer based in Paris, to comment how “On almost every significant issue facing mankind and the planet, it is Israel and the United States against mankind and the planet.”

Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else