Tag Archives: Middle East

The Martyrdom of Julian Assange

Posted on April 15, 2019 by

By Chris Hedges Source: Truthdig The arrest Thursday of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of … Continue reading →

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The Global Pivot Away From America

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

By Graham Vanbergen Source: TruePublica There was a day when the world realised they’d had enough of America. It wasn’t when America turned it back on the Herculean effort to sign the world up to the Paris Climate Agreement or … Continue reading →

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Reality and its enemies

Posted on May 31, 2017 by

By Lawrence Davidson Source: Intrepid Report There is an ongoing reality that is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East. And though most Americans are ignorant of the fact, and many of those who should be in … Continue reading →

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The Age of Disintegration

Posted on November 1, 2016 by

Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World By Patrick Cockburn Source: TomDispatch.com We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory … Continue reading →

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It’s a $cam! The American Way of War in the Twenty-First Century

Posted on December 29, 2015 by

By Tom Engelhardt Source: TomDispatch.com Let’s begin with the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills, Iraqi oil money held in the U.S.  The Bush administration began flying it into Baghdad on C-130s soon after U.S. troops entered that city in … Continue reading →

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The Upheaval Dialogues: 2012 Reconsidered

Posted on June 28, 2015 by

By Christopher Knowles Source: The Secret Sun Before my trip to New Hampshire I was working on a post arguing that the 2012 prophecies were not incorrect but simply premature. That 2012 seemed to mark a turning point of a … Continue reading →

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