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One Week after Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of the US Siege Continues to Unfold

By Bill Van Auken on July 18, 2017

One week after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaimed the “liberation” of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, the scale of destruction wrought during a nine-month, US-backed siege is becoming clearer, (more…)

Israel’s Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood

By Jonathan Cook on July 11, 2017

When Israel passed a new counter-terrorism law last year, Ayman Odeh, a leader of the country’s large minority of Palestinian citizens, described its draconian measures as colonialism’s “last gasp”. He said: “I see … the panic of the French at the end of the occupation of Algeria.” (more…)

Hiding US Lies About Libyan Invasion

By Joe Lauria on July 7, 2017

In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith’s job was to delve into The Times of London archive and rewrite stories that could cause trouble for the totalitarian government ruling Britain. (more…)

Ignoring the Human Disaster in Yemen

By Alon Ben-Meir on July 13, 2017

The West’s protestations about human rights sound hollow when one looks at Yemen where the U.S. and U.K. place profits from arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the carnage those weapons are inflicting. (more…)

United States in Another Escalation Phase in the War against Syria?

By Roberto García Hernández on July 6, 2018

The most recent threats of the United States against Syria seem to announce an even more invasive policy by the White House against that Arab nation, despite the lack of a defined strategy in that regard. (more…)

Gaza Protest Declares: “Venezuela, Palestine Is With You!”

July 7, 2017

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Gaza Strip organized a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, in defense of Venezuela against the U.S. imperialist targeting of Venezuela’s Bolivarian project, in particular a recent decree by the U.S. administration imposing new economic sanctions on Venezuela (more…)

The National Geographic Hell on Earth Syria Hoax

By Paul Larudee on July 6th, 2017

On April 5, 2017, National Geographic released a preview of its film, Hell on Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise of ISIS, by filmmaker Sebastian Junger and producing partner Nick Quested: (more…)

The Refugees’ Return to Palestine is a Must

By Asa Winstanley on July 1, 2017

In just under a year’s time, Palestinians will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Catastrophe that marks their expulsion from Palestine. More than 750,000 Palestinians, most of the then population, were forcibly expelled by the Jewish militias of the organised Zionist movement, the same sectarian forces that went on to form the nucleus of the Israel Defence Forces. (more…)

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