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Dec 13 2023 
Israel isn’t winning
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
Why the US vetoed a Gaza Strip cease-fire
To understand the real reason the US vetoed the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, I refer you to Saturday’s rare report in Yediot Ahronoth about the unprecedented numbers of casualties sustained by the Israel military… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2023 
US troops occupy Syria and Iraq
The US military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw US troops. Journalist Ben Norton analyzes the situation.
Sources and links: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/12/12/us-troops-occupy-syria-oil-congress-withdraw/
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Dec 12 2023 
BRICS and the Resistance Axis Converge
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
MOSCOW – Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a notable pit stop in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to meet, respectively, Emirati President Mohammad bin Zayed (MbZ) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) before flying back to Moscow to meet Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
The… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2023 
Where will Gazans go?
Where will the south Gazans go? Their homeland has been rendered uninhabitable. They continue to be bombed. They remain jailed in a tiny besieged land, without food, water, electricity, health care, sewage, or any basic services. Egypt continues to bar the border, and they wouldn’t leave anyway. Where will the Palestinians go? Will the world… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2023 
Why ‘Messiah prophecy’ haunts Netanyahu
“Benjamin Netanyahu was told by a powerful Jewish religious figure that he would be Israel’s last leader and hand the sceptre to the Messiah. How does this so-called prophecy affect Netanyahu’s political calculations? And who is the mysterious religious figure, honoured by successive US presidents, simply known as The Rebbe?”
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Dec 03 2023 
Rolling out the red carpet
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Arab states are colluding in the US/Israeli war on Palestinian resistance.
It was a disgrace for Arab leaders to attend the Cop28 conference in Dubai alongside Israel’s president Isaac Herzog while it wages a genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip that has claimed the lives of at least 15,000 innocent… Continue reading
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Dec 02 2023 
Open Defiance
By William Schryver at imetatronink
In my view, the single most meaningful consequence of the NATO/Ukraine proxy war against Russia is that most of the major geopolitical players outside the imperial realm are suddenly in open defiance of the capricious “rules-based international order” and its rapacious monetary system.
The catalyst for this rebellion was that Vladimir Putin’s Russia stood… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2023 
‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture Foundation.
The jungle is here – creeping inside all of us.
“Mistah Kurtz – he dead.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad once said that before he had been to the Congo he was a simple animal. It was in one of those lands partially mapped out by the cruelty… Continue reading
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Nov 28 2023 
Israel Keeps Detaining Palestinians Despite Hamas Truce w/ Elijah J. Magnier
if inaccessible, on Twitter: https://nitter.net/RachBlevins/status/1729322391422018011#m
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Nov 27 2023 
What Are The Saudis Really Preparing For?
By Tom Luongo via ZeroHedge
Call the roller of big cigars
and bid him whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds…
… the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream
— Wallace Stevens
It was announced the other day that Saudi Arabia and China are opening a $7 billion local currency swap line.It prompted the highest-trafficked tweet of mine ever.
Mark Wauck… Continue reading
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Nov 26 2023 
Palestine’s New Leadership
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
“Israel’s agreement to negotiate prisoner swaps with Hamas is a mark of defeat.”
It may be premature to make a definitive evaluation of the first 50 days of the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, or foresee what will happen the day after the four-day truce that began on… Continue reading
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Nov 25 2023 
To Palestine: Lessons from Algeria
By A Contributor at The Cradle
In Algeria’s liberation struggle, we can find lessons on the limitations of humanistic ideals in the face of violence, offering insights into the ongoing Palestinian national liberation struggle
Sixty-six years ago, in the midst of a raging war, the renowned French-Algerian writer Albert Camus delivered his most perilous political speech. On… Continue reading
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