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Before European Hegemony by Abu-Lughod revisited

Abdus Sattar Ghazali

The US needs an alibi to justify remaining in Syria to fight “terrorism”

US occupiers lash out as Syria War draws to an end

M.K. Bhadrakumar

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s reality check is overdue

Bush relied on mythical weapons of mass destruction and a nonexistent link between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks to justify his war on Iraq

How team Bush escaped justice over Iraq

Trump and Netanyahu

Trump and Netanyahu behind prison bars — a satire

This is a diplomatic outcome the US never seriously pursued

Seismic Iran-Saudi rapprochement isolates US

A US Marine Corp watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad's Firdaus Square in April 2003

The American war from hell, 20 years later

The list of the Iranian government’s atrocities against its own people is hard to numerate

Iran’s human rights violations are indescribable

Western countries have invested billions of dollars into helping Ukraine militarily

Western calculations in the Ukraine war

The newly-formed Netanyahu government is betraying every single principle of the country’s founders’ vision

On the march to destroy Israel as we know It

The continued divisions between Fatah and Hamas and the effects of Israeli occupation heavily impede the human service work of Palestinian civil society

Community-driven decentralization and reconciliation in Palestine

Yossef Ben-Meir

Israel strictly maintains its blockade and control of people and goods over the two crossings to and from Gaza

The absurdity of the Israel-Hamas relationship

Both governments were apparently intent on ignoring the questionable provenance of the skulls

Algeria and France: adding insult to injury

US soldiers in Syria

The picture is worth a thousand words

The Fallacy of tying the occupation to Israel’s security

Yair Lapid

Israel’s democracy is in peril

Western economies are suffering greatly from reduced energy supplies from Russia

The power problem and energy wars

A political blunder or forced reception?

Tunisia loses Morocco’s exceptional friendship without gaining anything

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Some European countries, particularly Italy, did not hesitate to negotiate deals with militias and traffickers to stem illegal migration

Europe’s security-only strategy will not curtail migration from the South

Oussama Romdhani

Israeli PM Yair Lapid

Israel’s Gaza war shows Lapid’s true colours

The killing of Ayman al Zawahiri will not end the war on terror

Al-Qaeda chief killing does not ‘make us safer’

Whatever the goals behind the Sadrists’ resignation, it puts all of Iraq in a predicament

Chronic Arab political gridlock

"Honoring troops on national holidays like the Memorial Day just past helps obscure a grim reality of our time"

War as terrorism

Andrea Mazzarino

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Mohamed bin Zayed: A charismatic leadership model

The war’s brutal consequences have in no way been limited to Ukraine and Russia

The Ukraine war’s collateral damage

The war in Ukraine has immediately impacted food supplies to many parts of the world

UKRAINE: Cost of War in Africa & Global South

Over those years, the US military has taken pains to normalize the use of drone warfare outside established war zones

The Civilian deaths you haven’t heard about

Madeleine Albright was the first woman to serve as American secretary of state (1997-2001)

Who is the hero? Albright vs. Assange

Lawrence Davidson

Iran now needs a major waiver from the US, such as removing the IRGC from the terrorist list

Washington and Tehran: the double impasse

Mariupol

How to end the war in Ukraine

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