THE MIDDLE EAST ARMS RACE
Suggested reading & research from Ed Knox
Articles of interest:
- "What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss" by Andrew Bacevich on "LobeLog Foreign Policy, May 8, 2017
- "Flynn Clueless on Syrian Nukes" by Jim Lobe on LobeLog Foreign Policy," Dec 8, 2016
- "Trump should embrace ‘dual conciliation’ abroad" by Stephen Kinzer in "The Boston Globe," Nov 23, 2016
- "Deputy NSC Advisor Pick McFarland: Treat Middle Easterners Like Kids" by Derek Davison on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Nov 25, 2016
- "The Iran Deal: Perspectives From Major Powers" by George Perkovich, et al at "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace," Nov 11, 2016
- "How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore Apart the Middle East" in "The New York Times," Nov 19, 2016
- "76 Experts Urge Donald Trump to Keep Iran" by Rick Gladstone in "The New York Times," Nov 14, 2016
- Middle East Institute's "Briefing: Middle East Reactions to the U.S. Election" includes "Trump’s Win Adds New Dynamics to Unstable Middle East" by Paul Salem, "What a Trump Presidency Means for Syria/Iraq" by Robert S. Ford, "Israel’s Right Welcomes Trump’s Victory" by Eran Etzion, "Erdogan Treads Carefully on Trump" by Gönül Tol, "Iran’s Moderates Fear Trump Presidency" by Alex Vatanka, and "G.C.C. Uncertain About Trump" by Gerald Feierstein, Nov 9, 2016
- "The $38 Billion 'Understanding': With U.S. Military Aid, Are Netanyahu’s Strong Beliefs Worth $7 Billion?" by Amos Harel, "Israeli Defense Sector Breathes Easier After New U.S. Aid Pact" by Ora Coren", "With New Israel Aid Deal, Obama Is Patron Of the Occupation" by Gideon Levy on "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs," Nov/Dec 2016
- "America’s New Reality: Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots" by Tom Engelhardt on "Informed Comment," Sept 23, 2016
- "Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice" by Steven Lee Myers & Eric Schmitt in "The New York Times," Oct 14, 2015
- "Turkey Expresses Concern to U.S. and Russia Over Help for Syrian Kurds" by Tim Arango & Anne Barnard in "The New York Times," Oct 14, 2015
- "On Building Armies (and Watching Them Fail): Why Washington Can’t 'Stand Up' Foreign Militaries" by Andrew J. Bacevich on "TomDispatch.com," Oct 13, 2015
- "U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia" by Anne Barnard & Karam Shoumali, "The New York Times," Oct 12, 2015
- "Does Obama have a Syria Strategy? Putin Does." by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 12, 2015
- "How Syria is becoming a test bed for high-tech weapons of electronic warfare" by David Stupples on "Informed Comment," Oct 10, 2015
- "Graphic Proof of Iranian Hegemony: They're Spending a Sixth as Much as the Saudis on Arms with Less than Three Times the Saudi Population!" by the editor of "Middle East Institute" blog, April 29, 2015
- "Deal or No Deal?" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," April 22, 2015
- "Atomic Labs Across the U.S. Race to Stop Iran" by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad in "The New York Times," April 21, 2015
- "The Great War’s Ominous Echoes" by Margaret MacMillan in "The New York Times," Dec 13, 2013
- "The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel" by Juan Cole in "Informed Comment," Nov 26, 2013
- "Oil for Arms: How Oil Revenues Strengthen Authoritarian Rule in Chad" by Lena Guesnet on "Digital Development Debates," [undated], 2013
- "U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market" by Thom Shanker in "The New York Times," Aug 26, 2012
- "It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't Ask-Don't Tell" Nuclear Policy," post by Pam Bailey and Medea Benjamin on Truth-out.org, October 19, 2013
- "The Iran Crisis and Israeli Nukes" by Barry Lando in the CounterPunch newsletter, Feb 2, 2012, citing the work of investigative reporter Seymour Hersh
- "Politics Plays Into Iran Nuclear Issue" by Gary Thomas on Voice of America, March 12, 2012, a discussion of the views of former Israeli government official Daniel Levy
- "The Coming Collapse of Iran Sanctions, " a post by Flynt & Hillary Mann Leverett on the Huffington Post, Feb. 25, 2013.
- "Our myopic approach to Iran," a post by Stephen M. Walt on ForeignPolicy.com, March 26, 2013.
- "The Pain of following Iran in U.S. media," an article by Rami G. Khouri in The Daily Star (Lebanon), April 6, 2013.
- "Iran and the I.A.E.A (International Atomic Energy Agency)," post by Seymour Hersh on The New Yorker's Daily Comment blog, November 18, 2011.
- "U.S. & Israeli Officials: Iran is NOT Building Nuclear Weapons," a post on the Friends Committee on National Legislation website, c. 2012
- "Iran and the Bomb: How real is the nuclear threat?" by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker, June 6, 2011.
- "Why Iran isn’t the Soviet Union," a post by Jonathan Adelman on CNN World, April 8, 2013.
- "CNN, John Kerry falsely try to tie Iran to North Korea Nuclear Crisis," a post by Juan Cole on Informed Comment, April11, 2013.
- "US-Iran strained ties to continue: Expert on ME" by a staff reporter in The Nation, April 11, 2013.
- "Report Urges White House to Rethink Iran Penalties" by David E. Sanger in The New York Times, April 17, 2013.