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Israel Threatens with Wider War in the Middle East
Israel responds to defeat of Islamist rebels in Syria with threat of wider regional war
By Jean Shaoul
25 November 2017
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor...
US and European military operations in West Africa set the stage...
By Eddie Haywood
20 October 2017
The war being conducted in West Africa by the United States in partnership with its European counterparts France...
The Five Blinding Myths About Iran
Exclusive: President Trump lines up with the Washington Establishment on at least one point: that Iran is the chief source of terrorism. The only...
US War on Terror: Provocations, Mystifications, and Illusory Feats
By Nil NIKANDROV
08.09.2011
A decade ago, the World Trade Center was destroyed in “a terrorist attack” on September 11 in New York. Contrary to all...
What If Everything You Know About Terrorism Is Wrong?
First Published at September 25, 2014
One of the points I consistently try to get across in my writings and talks is that international terrorism...
Trump’s Team Will Start New Wars in the Middle East
Blood-curdling proposals for the persecution of Muslims played a central role in Trump’s election campaign. At one moment, he promised to stop all Muslims from entering the US, though this was later changed to “extreme vetting”. The use of torture by water-boarding was approved and applauded, and Hillary Clinton was pilloried for not speaking of “radical Islamic terrorism”.
Syrian Conflict Escalates
Speaking before a United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry demagogically blamed Russia and the government of President Bashar al-Assad for the escalating violence that has left a ceasefire reached earlier this month in tatters.
Saudi-Backed Syrian Rebel Faction Ahrar al-Sham Rejects US-Russia Ceasefire Deal
Ahrar Al-Sham, the Saudi-backed militant organization announced that it will reject the ceasefire which is to enter into force on Monday, September 12.
The militant...
Spurning Washington’s appeals, Turkey vows to expand assault on US-backed Kurdish...
Since Turkey launched its invasion of Syria on August 24, mobilizing Syrian Sunni militia funded, armed and trained by the CIA, it has increasingly directed its firepower not against ISIS, but rather against the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Pentagon-backed formation dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Bin Laden’s Legacy
By Scott Stewart
May 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden....