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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about Russia
Those in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs ISIS headed for a third wave of violence?
A recent attack on a prison in Syria and a massacre of Iraqi soldiers have left many fearing ISIS may soon resurface...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy Tony Blair is just the right person to get Britain’s top honour
Blair is responsible for countless war crimes and deaths – just the sort of thing the UK honours system was set up to reward
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAn Iraqi in the capital of the US Empire
Do the people on the street in Washington DC know that their government decimated my home?
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhile the West focused on Afghanistan, ISIS gained ground in Iraq and beyond
For jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as...
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewCass Sunstein: The moment I knew that US democracy was in mortal danger
The world-leading behavourial economist used to think that warnings about the fragility of US democracy were 'crazy...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionKurdish group claims Turkey is using chemical weapons. Why is nobody investigating?
The international community is failing in its duty to investigate allegations that Kurdish forces are being killed...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureSeven years in camps: Life for the abandoned victims of IS
Many thousands of displaced Yazidi survivors are still living in unbearable conditions in Iraq, with no foreseeable way out
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe deadly legacy of 20 years of US 'War on Terror' in Iraq
The occupation of Iraq drained the country’s resources and left a legacy of economic crisis, energy shortages,...
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewA UK government advisor who's changed his mind about the Iraq War
Ed Owen, an advisor to the foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, on why he now feels differently about...
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS defeat in Afghanistan marks the end of neoliberalism
The past 50 years of Western economics are rooted in imperial exploitation. But if the US’s military can be beaten,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionFrom invasion to failed state: Iraq’s democratic disillusionment
Western-style democracy has failed Iraq, bringing a dystopian economy, an ineffectual government and more pain for...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisTurkey’s invasion of northern Iraq could lead to Kurdish civil war
Attendees of a recent peace delegation responding to Turkey’s incursions into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisKilled in the line of duty: the catastrophic deaths of 14,000 Iraqi officers
How and why are so many police officers being killed in Iraq?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIraq: assassinations, repression, and the struggles of daily life
Years of of lethal state failure have devastated the people of Iraq, whose daily life today is fraught with...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionGeorge W Bush’s finest piece of war
Painting immigrants’ faces and laughing on chat shows will not excuse the former US president’s blood-stained past
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionWhy do churches have mixed attitudes towards the Arab Spring?
Christian leaders in Egypt and Syria opposed the 2011 uprising but now their counterparts in Iraq and Lebanon back...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisDid the UN inadvertently recognise Iran’s guardianship of Iraq?
A recent visit to Tehran suggests that the UN is officially recognising Iran's presence – and interference – in its...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewThe hacker who lost his family and survived torture in Iraq’s secret prisons
I spoke to Ahmed Al-Ghaleb in January, as he prepared to make the perilous journey to Europe to seek asylum. He...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat does Biden’s presidency mean for the future of the Gulf?
Will the new president undo Trump’s hawkish stance on Iran, Yemen, Libya and Qatar?