abbas claims jerusalem embassy is ‘slap of the century.’
They had left plans for a new kingdom to arise called Jordan, set the borders from Syria and Lebanon and created a border between Israel and the local Arab population called Palestine. . ..…
hizballah’s takeover of lebanese government bolsters iran in syria
The upshot of this episode was that Israel went against the tunnels without US backing, while Washington forfeited lever against Iran and Hizballah Syria and Lebanon.. All that was left to Washington after two-day visit to Beirut, not to use the government as cash cow for terrorist..…
the handmaiden of empire
She rejects attempts to defend US military intervention on humanitarian or feminist grounds, as in Iraq or Afghanistan, and arguments in favor of a brutal iron-fisted dictatorship ostensibly committed to more progressive secular rule, as in Syria or, more recently, Egypt. Instead, Kumar argues that..…
revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in syria
How did al Qaeda and Daesh emerge in Syria and what role did they play? ... If that is the case, what are lessons so far in Syria and the region? ..…
examing the revolution in rojava
The omission of these revolutionary projects within Syria contributes to a pattern on the left of erasing the genuine popular, democratic roots of the Syrian revolution. . ..…
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