Tag Archives: Arab world
The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State

The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State

by James Petras
Professor James Petras, adduces that ’there is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad is a violent power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition.’

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Syria: the Middle East’s tipping point

Syria: the Middle East’s tipping point

by Nassar Ibrahim
The struggle for Syria isn’t just about Syria–it’s the struggle for a free, democratic Middle East versus one that lives under the yoke of American and Israeli hegemony.

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The ‘Arab Spring’ and the West: Seven Lessons from History

The ‘Arab Spring’ and the West: Seven Lessons from History

by Seumas Milne
There’s a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe’s oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent.

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