Sitemap - 2023 - Matthew's Notebook
Iran hawks got what they wanted. It's backfiring.
Yemen borrows the “humanitarian sanctions” playbook
Do rifles at a hospital prove a war crime took place?
Will the Gaza war really hurt Biden’s reelection chances?
The Vietnam moment in the Middle East
The international pressure on Israel that really matters
9/11 and the Holocaust don't explain the Israel-Palestine war
Journalists falsely report Democratic Socialist rally for Hamas
The Israeli-Palestinian media war inverts itself
A (not very subtle) American soldier (allegedly) tries to spy for China
Saudi-backed media promotes "Great Replacement" theory to Iranians
It's not about "ancient hatreds"
What is Washington's problem with Shi'a Muslims?
Global power runs through New Jersey
U.S. helps Bahrain spy on social media — and proudly
Closure for 9/11 was stolen from Americans
Syria's "oil region" mutinies against the Kurds
The Coming Republican Showdown over Israel
Why do Iranians think Lebanese are stealing their money? American disinformation
The U.S. isn't behind everything, but it isn't innocent either
SpongeBob, the bikini, Godzilla, and thermonuclear genocide
"Oppenheimer" made history exciting
An Islamist immigrant explains polygamy to Americans, 1971
Jordan's two-thousand year Forever War frontier
How the search for a downed submarine changed American journalism
We're All Living in America: Saudi anti-LGBT Disinfo Edition
Rest in peace, Daniel Ellsberg
Muslim-American conservatives and the Palestinian question
Trump's indictment shows how the Iran war obsession threatens American democracy
Khomeini's right-hand man was a "Jeffersonian Democrat" womanizer — and other FBI stories
“The Sopranos” is about the Arab-American experience
Is Kissinger to blame for the Khmer Rouge?
"Manufacturing Consent" and the Kurdish Question
The way we debate Hiroshima is all wrong
Latin America is not Washington's Ukraine — the U.S. was more thorough
Turkey, Israel, and the victory of religious nationalism
Turkey's silenced Kurdish voters and the guerrilla insurgency
Turkey's maximum pressure campaign is wrecking Syrian Kurdish society
The first "woman, life, freedom" guerrillas spent time in Israeli prison
The death and birth of the Iranian opposition
What's really behind the Iranian crown prince visiting Israel?
Ukrainians love the drones that kill Kurds. Can we blame them?
Former Jordanian minister: why let Israelis in U.S. media tell us about Jordan's diplomacy?
What just happened on Jerusalem's Aqsa Mosque?
Fake news about Iran's "ambassador" breaking the Ramadan fast
Israel's protests were an opportunity Palestinians couldn't take
When does the international media cover Jordan?
Neither moral nor pragmatic, but a secret third thing
Did the Iraq War hawks get what they wanted?
Saudi Arabia and Israel are not really that scared of Iran
Iranian schoolgirl poisonings cause fear, anger, confusion
Senator Abourezk was Vietnam Syndrome, and Vietnam Syndrome was good
Biden admin seems to greenlight Israel bombing Iran
China isn't letting Russia buy drones — the UAE is
America's empire of jocks versus the old-style empire of nerds
On earthquakes and spy balloons
The U.S. loves sending secretive "objects" into other countries
A Jewish appeal for Turkish earthquake victims, 1939
Some more Turkey-Syria earthquake politics
How do sanctions hurt ordinary people?
Earthquakes used to be an opportunity for diplomacy
Gilead is a real place, and it's quite nice to visit
What if Homer told the story of David and Goliath?
Iran's future foreign minister offered the FBI information, declassified docs show
The FBI watchlist was leaked — and includes U.S. partners in Syria
"Iran Lobby" conspiracy theories turn into defamation lawsuits
What's up with those Gauls? Roman ethnic stereotypes and ancient racism
Nerds keep leaking sensitive data on wargame forum
Is "intifada" a call for violence?
We're All Living in America: Brazilian Florida Man Capitol Riot Edition
Whose Cash Is It, Anyways? Venezuela, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian Authority