Citizens International

August 2016

Football and flags: Why Celtic fans back the Palestinian cause

By Marc Patrick Conaghan   Scottish club’s followers have always shown solidarity towards the dispossessed and oppressed   This verse is from a song that Celtic football fans sing called The Fields of Athenry. Written during the 1970s, it tells the story of a family dispossessed of their land and left starving due to the Great Irish […]

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The Republic strikes back: How Turkey defeated coup attempt

By Ertan Aydin   The coup failed because the Turkish people acted like true Jedi Knights of democracy, resisting the tanks and bullets of Gulen’s Hizmet Army   The details of Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt show a surprising resemblance to the plot of theStar Wars films. If the uprising had been successful, then this article would have

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Egypt’s prosecution to investigate spying claims against politicians Sabahi, Abul-Fotouh

Politicians Hamdeen Sabahi (L) and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh (R) A citizen has filed a report claiming former presidential candidates Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahi have spied for Hezbollah and Iran Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered an investigation into a police report that accuses politicians Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahi of spying for Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary

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July 15 Tweets Pose Questions On ‘Shadow CIA’ Stratfor

  – In similar circumstances, no one would have posted such information about the US president’s whereabouts, argues analyst Tweets by U.S.-based firm Stratfor on the Turkish president’s flight to Istanbul from Marmaris on the night of the July 15 coup attempt have drawn attention and controversy worldwide, said Anadolu Agency in a report on Tuesday. Founded

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