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April 12, 2016

Russia’s six-month Syria campaign killed at least 1,100 civilians, say monitors

Malaysia, Middle East, Perspective, Russia, South East Asia, Syria /

Russian air strikes have continued despite a withdrawal announcement last month, but civilian casualties caused by its bombs have decreased Russian planes leave Hmeimim military base as part of the partial Russian withdrawal from Syria (AFP/ RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY/VADIM GRISHANKIN)   The Kremlin’s six-month campaign in Syria resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100 […]

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Has the US found a new friend in Iraq’s Shiite militias?

America, Blogs, Iraq, Middle East /

    Iraqi Sunni Muslim fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units take part in a ceremony marking the Iraqi Police Day at Amiriyat al-Fallujah in Anbar province, Jan. 9, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) On March 12, US Consul General Steve Walker visited Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra to pay his respects to wounded members of the Popular Mobilization Units.

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The World And Israel: Complicity In Zionism’s Crimes And Why

Israel, Middle East, Perspective /

  By Alan Hart   I must begin with a clarification. “The world” of my headline is inhabited only by our so-called leaders and their governments, not the civil societies of nations. And the complicity of our so-called leaders and their governments in Zionism’s crimes is in my view more by default out of fear of

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Reading Jeff Halper’s ‘War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification’

Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Perspective /

  By Richard Falk      [Prefatory Note: The review below was published in the current issue of Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and Islamicate World. I am posting it here because I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least

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