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Erdogan repairs Syria ties with eye on Eurasianism
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev regarding the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand on September 15-16. This must be the fourth or fifth time the two leaders confabulated over the upcoming event. One lost count! Continue reading
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How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria
The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish-held territory which followed. Continue reading
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Kurds in Syria: ‘We don’t want to draw new borders’, says Democratic Union Party
Salih Muslim shares the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat, PYD) with Asya Abdullah. The PYD is a sister party of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and shares the same ideological background as its leader Abdullah Öcalan. The party is the ruling force in the Kurdish areas of Syria and took over… Continue reading
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ICH 21 March 2013: CIA Plans to Keep Your Information ‘Forever’
21 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Friction Behind The SmilesObama’s New Strategy in the Middle EastBy Ron Ben-YishaiWashington wants Israel to be a quiet partner in this axis so that the Jewish state will be able to cooperate with its neighbors over the table, and mainly under it. This could be beneficial in the event that Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 February 2012: British, Qatari Troops Waging Secret War in Syria?
9 February, 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel Kills Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Iranian nuclear scientists are being killed by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel‘s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30478.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 September 2011: Imagine
11 September 2011 — Information Clearing House New American Ally in Somalia: ‘Butcher’ Warlord By David Axe If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain’t seen nothing yet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm Continue reading