Saturday, 20 April , 2024

Islamists

In Defense of ISIS, by Thomas Friedman of the New York...

Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria? The Trump foreign policy team has been all over the map on what to do next in Syria...

EGYPT 2016 – Who is worse, Mubarak, Morsi or Sisi?

By Mamdouh Habashii  2016 was a very difficult year for the Egyptians. Most - both the average man and the political caste - even say...

More Propaganda than News from Aleppo. By Patrick Cockburn

It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign correspondent reporting on the civil war in Syria. This is because the jihadis holding power in east Aleppo were able to exclude Western journalists, who would be abducted and very likely killed if they went there, and replace them as news sources with highly partisan “local activists” who cannot escape being under jihadi control.

Αrchbishop of Canterbury: You turned Greece into the “biggest debtor’s prison...

The weight has fallen on those least able to survive, and when their own suffering was aggravated by the desperate plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees, and now millions, little help was given. What we have seen is the global market system, and especially the EU, lend people money to buy things and then strangle their hopes and futures when they cannot repay. What we now have is the biggest debtor's prison in European history.

Disobeying Obama, playing with Jihad – a “state inside the state”

Murphy’s report makes clear the CIA disdain for combatting ISIS (though this altered somewhat with the beheading of American journalist James Foley in August 2014): “With the CIA wanting little to do with anti-ISIS operations as they are focused on bringing down the Assad regime, the agency kicked the can over to 5th Special Forces Group. Basing

Leila Khaled on ISIS and Islamism, Syria and the Palestinians

A terrorist for the Israelis, Khaled was a symbol throughout the world for the Palestinian armed struggle, following her participation in one of the four simultaneous hijackings of September 1970, inspiring songs, films and works of art internationally. These hijackings were part of the Palestinian “response” to the ignominious defeat they suffered with the

Russia debates Turkey

The following article was published in the Russian website Katehon. It is interesting in two aspects. First, it is expressing the viewpoint of a section of Russian elite. Second, as the writer makes a polemic against other currents inside Russian elite, he is helping us to understand better various schools of thought which compete for influence in both the Kremlin and Russian public at large.

A Coup Foretold (Turkey and the Neocons)

We repost the article: “Turkey: Is a Military Coupe Possible?” which was first published on 31 March 2016 By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Some hours before the Brussels...

Western countries prepare a military intervention in Libya

Source: Resumen Medio Oriente, with information from Al Manar and HispanTV / The Dawn News / March 11, 2016. The New York Times reported last...