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Shahran oil depot in Tehran, Iran on March 8, 2026

Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire

How oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
by Gilbert Achcar, Bashir Abu-Manneh via Jacobin
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on March 9, 2026
A US marine of the Lima 3/5 company in Fallujah, 2004.

US: An Old-New Imperial Doctrine

The US has grown wary of long occupations. Dropping the pretense of exporting democracy, the Trump administration now seeks to force existing powers to comply.
by Gilbert Achcar via Le Monde Diplomatique on February 1, 2026
US soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021.

The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.
by Gilbert Achcar via Jacobin
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on September 4, 2021
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