Rania Khalek

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Rania Khalek is an American journalist, writer and political commentator based in the Middle East. Khalek has written for a variety of publications, including the Nation, the Intercept, Al Jazeera, Salon, Vice, the Electronic Intifada and Alternet. She is known for her reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and has also done work on the Syrian Civil War, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, US presidential elections and the US criminal justice system. She also hosts the ‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ podcast.

US tries to bully the world into attacking Iran Opinion
America’s conduct towards Iran demonstrates just how much of a bully the US government is, that anything short of bending 100 percent to America’s agenda will eventually result in punishment and war.
May 23, 2018 13:32
Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation not the same as rebels fighting Syrian govt Opinion
Supporters of the armed insurgency in Syria have deployed the Western left's pro-Palestine discourse to justify overthrowing the Syrian government. This tactic has confused and fractured the Palestine solidarity movement.
May 4, 2018 17:07
US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria Opinion
US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.
Apr 13, 2018 15:09
Biased media coverage of ‘chemical attack’ in Syria could provoke a dangerous new war Opinion
By jumping to conclusions about the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, Donald Trump’s war cabinet and their media cheerleaders are recklessly pushing us closer to a military confrontation between Russia and the US.
Apr 10, 2018 00:46
Saudi Arabia's superficial reforms won't mask ugliness of Wahhabism Opinion
As Saudi Arabia's crown prince tours the United States on what has been dubbed a "charm offensive," the US media has gone into propaganda overdrive, whitewashing Mohammad Bin Salman as a "reformer" who is modernizing the kingdom.
Mar 30, 2018 13:47
Got a problem? Just blame Russia Opinion
At a time when relations between the US and Russia have worsened to levels unseen since the Cold War, the media and Democratic Party have somehow convinced themselves and the American public that Moscow controls the White House.
Mar 29, 2018 14:18
How Iraq War destabilized the world and why the neocons aren't finished yet Opinion
The Iraq War architects have been thoroughly rehabilitated and are planning their next adventure, even as the catastrophic ramifications of their crimes continue to reverberate around the world.
Mar 26, 2018 16:37
Pro-war trolls resort to smears as their ‘rebels' lose miserably in Syria Opinion
Pro-regime-change pundits have gone into overdrive, unleashing everything in their arsenals and bending reality to slander the anti-war left, as their disastrous project in Syria reaches a miserable and failed ending.
Mar 16, 2018 16:02
Syria War: What the mainstream media isn’t telling you about Eastern Ghouta Opinion
As Syrian government forces battle Jaysh al-Islam to retake Eastern Ghouta, Western media outlets have totally ignored the atrocities of the insurgents, preferring to blame all the violence on the "regime."
Mar 5, 2018 15:30
America’s absurd new battle: Schoolchildren versus the Gun Lobby Opinion
America has reached a very low point when children are begging adults to pass gun control legislation to protect them from being killed at school. Yet, still, the adults in charge of the country are responding with a firm ‘no’.
Feb 24, 2018 01:57

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