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THE RETURN OF THE SLUM LANDLORDS | ARAB NATIONS UNITE | NAILS IN IMPERIAL COFFINS
‘Lead picture: Brooklyn Daily Eagle / Public domain (thanks to love.property). Update 08 February**: A new government has been formed in Lebanon with Nawaf Salam as PM and, in a slap in the face for Trump’s Deputy US Envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, with five cabinet members representing… Read more
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CALL TO ACTION | The International Court of Justice sabotages documents in the case against Israel | Who is Judge Sebutinde?
Update 5 March: Judge Iwasawa Yuji is elected President of the International Court of Justice. The election wasn’t expected so soon. The Japanese people are amongst the most vocal in the world about Gaza. See their Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Gaza. THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED TO THE… Read more
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Earth crying out | President in a hurry | The Turkish gambit in Syria | Saudi bid for regional hegemony
The last but one article, unplanned and written in a hurry due to the momentous event that the fall of the Assad dynasty was, introduced the Joker – a metaphor for earthshaking unintended consequences. The Joker took centre stage in the events in Syria, emerging from the “turn inward” of… Read more
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Gaza For the Record | A Democratic Party Genocide | The Groaning Dissent Channel | Trump’s ultimate legacy?
I call on incoming president Donald Trump – as a matter of form (I have no illusions about this) – to charge the Democratic Party of America with genocide under US laws and seek to dismantle it. For the record, irrespective of the official body count going on in Gaza,… Read more
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The Joker | Syrian Arab Spring returns | Assad retreats into hiding | Erdoğan the puppet master
This wasn’t supposed to happen. Even as Turkey, Russia and Iran met in Doha, under the Astana format, Erdoğan was urging Syrian rebels forces onto Damascus to take the Syrian capital. Erdoğan has been waiting for this moment since 2012, since Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State turned on… Read more
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The Long View | The World at War | The Sinodollar market | Looming Chinese hegemony | System Pause*
These are a few words describing the major fault lines in the present that will shape our future. This is about the long view, sitting on the Turkish mountains looking over a deeply troubled Syria and a Middle East that has been the beating heart of the world ever since… Read more
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