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The Oilman Who Loved Dictators
Or How Texaco Supported Fascism. By Adam Hochschild.
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Zero-Sum in Brussels
The Savage Vision Driving a Terror-Ridden World. By Chris Floyd.
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Deadly Blowback from Neo-Imperial Wars
The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. With an introduction by Chuck Spinney.
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Hot Afternoons in Armenia’s Frozen Zone
“‘Don’t worry. I have a good canister made in Italy. It doesn’t burst, it just rips,’ Ruslan told me. He noticed me looking at eight corroded and scarred canisters stacked under the belly of a 70’s Soviet truck about two feet away from my face. ‘But those, on the other hand, are old and very dangerous. If one of those canisters blows up, all of them will.’” By Yasha Levine. (Aug. 2006)
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The Panama Papers Show What Happens When the Wealthy Play By Different Rules
Unless you live under a rock (and perhaps even if you do), by now you have heard a good deal about the Panama Papers, the 2.6-terabyte news leak orchestrated by nearly 400 journalists, currently being hailed as one of the largest document leaks in history. The documents detail the operations and clients of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian firm that specializes in creating shell companies for the purpose of shielding money from taxation.
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Asda’a Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey 2016
An overwhelming majority of young Arabs reject Daesh (ISIS) and believe the group will fail to establish an Islamic State.
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Rebuilding Washington's Transatlantic Alliance
The next president will have to redesign the U.S. relationship with Europe.
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The End of the American Empire
“In the Cold War, we ruled the roost in a sphere of influence called ‘the free world’ — free only in the sense that it included every country outside the competing Soviet sphere of influence, whether democratic or aligned with the United States or not.” By Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
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We’re running out of water, and the world’s powers are very worried
Classified U.S. cables between American diplomats show a mounting concern by global political and business leaders that water shortages could spark unrest across the world, with dire consequences. By Nathan Halverson. (Apr. 11)
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Playing with fire.
The US is undermining opportunities for cooperation in Syria and Ukraine, while escalating NATO’s military presence near Russia.
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Let Them Drown
“This is happening because the wealthiest people in the wealthiest countries in the world think they are going to be OK, that someone else is going to eat the biggest risks, that even when climate change turns up on their doorstep, they will be taken care of.” By Naomi Klein.
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The Law of Revenge: Deadly Hatred among Anti-IS Alliance in Iraq
The US is fighting together with an alliance of rival groups to defeat IS in Iraq. Deadly violence in a city north of Baghdad shows, however, that once the Islamists are defeated, erstwhile allies may turn their weapons on each other. By Christoph Reuter.
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The Secret Behind the Yemen War
A recent PBS report about the war in Yemen exposed the secret connection between the U.S.-Saudi alliance and Al Qaeda, a reality that also underscores the jihadist violence in Syria, writes Daniel Lazare. (May 7, ’16)
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An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars
Why is a 'mass extinction' of independent states taking place in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond? By Patrick Cockburn.
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One person, two guns: how weapons are proliferating in Darfur
Armaments flow in from neighbouring countries as locals accuse regime of arming selected militias. By Mohamed Hilali.
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At Warsaw Summit, NATO Takes Control of Nukes. Putin: “This Is Not a Defense System”
The highly contentious NATO Summit in Warsaw begins today with ceremony, bilateral meetings and expert forums. The national stadium in Warsaw will be used as a venue. The main topics will be the “triple threat” of Russia, Brexit and the problems in the southern NATO region (terrorism, migrants)... By Joanne Leon.
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NATO and Putin’s “Threats” to the Baltics
Putin’s “Threats” to the Baltics: a Myth to Promote NATO Unity. By Gary Leupp.
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‘New normal’ after South China Sea ruling
“Pressed by the Philippines at the Tribunal and under diplomatic pressure from maritime Asean claimant states such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, China saw fit to cash in some of its patron-client ties with Cambodia and Laos, two small mainland Asean states, for diplomatic backup.” By Thitinan Pongsudhirak.
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NATO, Back in Business at the Old Stand
“NATO, it piously said, cannot stop people from freely applying to join, can it? Of course, given that most of these countries wanted to be neutral originally – the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in 1990 has these words: ‘The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs’ – it took time and money to persuade people to ‘freely’ apply. … By Patrick Armstrong.
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Dr. Michael Brenner: America has not come to terms to what it did and the devils that it unleashed
“The goal has not [changed]; it is the cost and the risk that has mounted as Putin has made it clear that he will not passively accept further expansion of NATO on Russia’s periphery.” Interviewed by Mohsen Abdelmoumen.
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