proxy war
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Someone’s Already Fighting ISIS: The Syrian Arab Army By Tony Cartalucci
Since 2011, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has waged a relentless war within Syrian territory against what it has said from the very beginning was an invasion of heavily armed, foreign-backed sectarian extremists. In retrospect, the transparently ludicrous nature of articles like the Guardian’s “Syria’s rebels unite to oust Assad and push for democracy” is… Continue reading
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#Mintcasts: What the MSM won’t tell you about ISIS & greater plan to fragment Middle East
As the world’s eyes turn to Iraq, flabbergasted at the brutality and partial success of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, takeover of major Iraqi cities with the goal of building a so-called “Islamic state” under the banner of a Sunni awakening in Shiite-friendly nations like Iraq and Syria — both bordering… Continue reading
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US-Sponsored Terrorism in Iraq and “Constructive Chaos” in the Middle East By Julie Lévesque
Iraq is once again front page news. And once again the picture that is presented to us in the Western mainstream media is a mixture of half truths, falsehoods, disinformation and propaganda. The mainstream media will not tell you that the US is supporting both sides in the Iraqi conflict. Washington is overtly supporting the… Continue reading
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Global Research: Selected Articles on the situation in Iraq 19 June 2014
19 June 2014 — Global Research IRAQ REPORT | Global Research The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 14, 2014… Continue reading
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U.S. Continues War by Proxy: Playing the Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi By Nicola Nasser
International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree only on two denominators, namely that the presence of the U.S.-installed and Iran–supported sectarian government in Baghdad and its sectarian al-Qaeda antithesis are… Continue reading
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Is Lebanon the Great Unravelling? By William Bowles
I think it’s now clear that the gamble the US took with its proxy force, Israel, is a military-political disaster. Soon, there won’t be much left to destroy in Lebanon, then what? There are several options open to Israel (US), none of them too inviting, yet sooner or later the real world will force the… Continue reading
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Israel’s Proxy War By William Bowles
Israel’s attack on Syria this past weekend revives an aspect of the Cold War period that most thought a thing of the past, namely utilising a third party to do your fighting for you – war by proxy – a tactic used so effectively by the US in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere… Continue reading
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