Islamic State
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A Matter of Citizenship: Shamima Begum, Islamic State and Natural Justice
Rarely do terms such as “Islamic State” and “natural justice” keep company. Both seem alien, uncomfortable, fundamentally ill-suited. For one, Islamic State’s own approach to natural justice, archaic and stone-age obscurantist, has tended to be distinctly unnatural and particularly brutal. But it has also invited, in response to its particular brand of terrorism, a troubling… Continue reading
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Media: NYT Says Congress Has 'Duty' to Make War–Rather Than the Right to Reject It
As reports come in detailing the degree to which Donald Trump has escalated the “War on ISIS”—and killed hundreds more civilians in the process—this would seem like a good time for the country to sit back and examine the United States’ approach to fighting “terrorism” and its recent iteration, the so-called Islamic State. Continue reading
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Trump Bans Muslims from Entering the United States, Launches “Holy War against Radical Islam” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Trump’s Executive Order to ban Muslims from entering the US, will have devastating consequences both in the US and internationally. It also has a bearing on America’s military agenda in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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Russia-China Relations and the Downing of Russia’s Jet Fighter by Turkey By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The downing of a Russian jet fighter over Syria’s airspace was undertaken by Turkey in consultation with Washington and Brussels. Turkey did not take this decision without getting the greenlight from the Pentagon. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Let’s Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman’ – Bombing Syria
One of the great Freudian slips of our time was supplied by a Fox News anchor on March 24, 1999, as Nato was preparing to wage war on Yugoslavia: ‘Let’s bring in our Pentagon spokesman – excuse me, our Pentagon correspondent.’ For indeed the unwritten rule informing this type of journalism is: if you want… Continue reading
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Obama Accuses Russia of Going After America’s “Good Guy Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Amply documented but rarely mentioned in news reports, the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, recruited, trained and financed by the US and its allies including Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and Jordan. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Daesh, The Revolutionary Neoliberal Party and the British Falsehood Corporation
Lord Hall, the director general of the BBC, is to be questioned by MPs over his refusal to refer to Islamic State using the term ‘Daesh’ (an Arabic abbreviation that means ‘one who crushes something underfoot’ and ‘one who sows discord’) because it is pejorative and therefore biased. Controversial British prime minister David Cameron had… Continue reading
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“The Terrorists R Us.” The Islamic State “Big Lie” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Lest we forget, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, have been financing and training the ISIL terrorists on behalf of the United States. Israel is harboring the Islamic State (ISIL) in the Golan Heights, NATO in liaison with the Turkish high command has since March 2011 been involved in coordinating the recruitment of the jihadist fighters dispatched to… Continue reading
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The Islamic State: Who Is ISIS? An Open Source Investigation By James Corbett
The hysteria over the supposed threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) is now undeniable. Every day new stories emerge focusing on the group’s brutality, its resources, its capabilities and its intention to strike out at the West. The US Defense Secretary, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ranking Senators… Continue reading
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