The Return of the Syrian Army | Robert Fisk
(Counterpunch, October 20, 2015) While the world still rages on at Russia’s presumption in the Middle East – to intervene in Syria instead of letting the Americans decide which dictators should survive...
View ArticleUsing Refugees: Merkel’s Turkish Gambit | Binoy Kampmark
(Counterpunch, October 20, 2015) The frontline in Europe’s refugee movement is shifting. In some cases, there is more of the same: the Hungarian approach entailing closures, followed by a brief easing...
View ArticleBombing Syria – Rights and Wrongs
SYRIA: ‘Terrorists cannot have safe haven to attack Britain from’ By PhilCorrigan | December 04, 2015 (Stoke Sentinel) DEADLY: A pilot sits in the cockpit of an RAF Tornado GR4 as he taxis it on the...
View ArticleBenedict Anderson, who wrote ‘Imagined Communities’, died in his adopted...
If Anderson had a homeland, it was Indonesia, which he threw his whole heart and mind into not just studying, but also emotionally inhabiting. (Jeet Heer, New Republic) Benedict Anderson, just two days...
View ArticleEU referendum – most important decision of our times? Really? | Bulent Gokay
(first published @ openDemocracy, 21 May 2016) Nothing will be as good outside the EU as LEAVE suggests: the world won’t collapse as REMAIN implies. It is a gigantic distraction, deliberately...
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