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Items by Dr Faisal Al-Qasim
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If governments are powerless to curb inflation, who is actually controlling the economy?
There is, by any standard, a terrifying phenomenon to which nobody is paying much attention; not even the media is making us aware of the potentially awful consequences. This phenomenon has appeared little by little in many countries, especially in the Arab world and the so-called Third World in...
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Why is Iran winning and Saudi Arabia losing?
Saudi Arabia’s only concern appears to be a confrontation with Iran, which is seen as the Kingdom’s number one enemy. That’s what we can conclude from the Saudi media mobilisation against the Islamic Republic. However, Saudi policies on the ground are almost all serving the interests of Iranian projects....
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Don’t count on a divorce between Russia and Iran just yet
Since the Russian-Syrian alliance was forged in Syria several years ago, many have wondered what could bring together the former communist Russia and Shia Iran. The Russian government is nominally orthodox Christian, democratic and ostensibly capitalist, as well as a system based upon the farming of intelligence. Iran, meanwhile,...
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Israel and the Syrian army defend each other
The Ba’ath Party media in Syria are experts in lying and propaganda for the benefit of the regime. Over the years, it has succeeded in planting the seeds of many myths in the minds of millions of Syrians. The regime has, for example, portrayed itself to Syrians and the Arab...
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Has America lost its aura or just changed its strategy?
Some people believe that America has lost its aura, especially since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution. What is irrational about this view is the fact that those who share it have linked America’s status and prestige to its hesitation to interfere in Syria. Based on this, they are...
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Enemies of the revolution: Wait for what is coming!
Former Tunisian President Moncef Al-Marzouki did not stray too far from the truth when he said that the dreams of the Arab Spring have gone unheeded. There is no doubt that the counter-revolutionary forces led by the region’s deep-rooted regimes, with the support of their allies, have succeeded in demonising...
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Who brought the extremists to distort the revolutions?
Did you notice that at the beginning of the Syrian revolution, what bothered Bashar Al-Assad’s regime the most was the people’s demand for freedom? We saw how the security forces harassed the protesters and revelled in their brutal means of torturing them, saying, “You want freedom? Take it!” (While...
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The Syrian regime and its colonial-style exploitation of minorities
Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Bashar Al-Assad’s regime has tried to present itself at home and abroad as the protector of minorities. The game of “protecting minorities” is not new, of course, but has been used many times by occupiers for the purposes of justifying their occupation...
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Information that the Syrians may not know
When the Wall Street Journal asked Bashar Al-Assad about the possibility of a revolution in Syria just months before its outbreak he replied, “Syria is not the same as Tunis.” Some analysts believed that what he meant was that Syrians are happy with their leadership and that the regime...
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The Arab Spring is just a preview of future revolutions
In order for us to be realistic, we must describe the Arab revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria as “takeaway” revolutions; they are like fast foods that do not satisfy the hunger because they have not gone through the normal preparation and development. Real meals go through...
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The 'cosmic conspiracy' against the Syrian people and not the regime
It is not at all true that the conspiracy against the Syrian revolution and people began two or more years after the outbreak of the revolution, when the extremist groups joined the revolution and derailed it, making the world view the revolution as terrorism rather than a popular uprising....
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Is the Islamic State the new justification for violation of the region?
The well-known former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan was right when he famously said, “rest assured, the Arabs are a nation that doesn’t read, and if they read they don’t understand, and if they understand they don’t act”. How short is the Arab and Islamic memory, as short as...
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Cutting off your nose to spite your face
A few months ago, I hosted an Iraqi media figure close to the ruling regime in Baghdad, who surprised me by saying, “If we knew that the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime would lead to the fall of the Iraqi regime and that the Iraqi people would fall victim...
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Terrorism's generals
When generals in too many parts of the world find themselves facing urgent economic reforms and human initiatives by the people at a time when they themselves have failed to provide the masses with basic necessities, they are often quick to label developments as “terrorism”. They do this in...
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When will our tyrants learn from their idiocy?
The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their opponents using state terrorism and weapons, this does not imply that they have ensured that their opponents will never return...
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Our revolutions will not prevail until we revolt against ourselves
Careful scrutiny of opposition groups that have come to power or who are fighting to gain power reveals that they are often mirror images of the tyrants they replace. Arab opposition political parties are infected with the same diseases of the ruling regimes, with membership of some limited to...