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M. Reza Behnam

M. Reza Behnam

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Catastrophe in Palestine

The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January.  Meanwhile, Israel has...

28.01.2025 10

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M. Reza Behnam

Israel Bombs, America Yawns and Gatekeepers Con

As gatekeepers of the corporate information bazaar, you have served Israel well.  Echoing the propaganda of Tel Aviv and Washington has become...

13.01.2025 10

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M. Reza Behnam

Israel and the United States:  Who Rules the Roost?

“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if...

11.12.2024 3

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M. Reza Behnam

Israel and the United States:  Who Rules the Roost?

“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if...

10.12.2024 20

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Retreat from Reason:  Palestine in the Time of Monsters

Our times are fraught.  This is especially glaring in the Middle East as the United States wrestles to maintain its control over this rich and...

22.11.2024 4

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Israel Unmasked

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”  – Pablo Neruda For over a year, the masters of war in Israel and the United...

21.10.2024 20

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The Agony and Ecstasy of an Empire: The United States in the Middle East

Economic hegemony has been the cornerstone of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf since the end of the Second World War.  America’s “special...

09.10.2024 10

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Palestinians in Occupied Palestine: Defying Zionism and Imperialism

The United States has had no qualms about casting its lot with the most openly and thoroughly racist regime Israel has ever produced.  That fact...

20.09.2024 8

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M. Reza Behnam