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  • January 25, 2014

    Syria, Assad and the right-wing connection

    Since the very beginning of the Arab uprisings earlier this year, the leaders of dictatorial governments at the centre of the storms across the region have raised the spectre...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Free, but confusing, Libya

    No one can deny that Gaddafi-free Libya has to be a better place in all respects, but a Libya protected by NATO troops and under UN trusteeship is not...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Assad's flawed analysis and coded message to the West

    Bashar Al-Assad has given an “exclusive interview” to Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, the first with the Western media since the beginning of the revolution in Syria. Ironically, this was shortly...

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  • January 25, 2014

    A war criminal’s "special mission": avoid arrest

    The failure to uphold Britain’s obligations towards universal jurisdiction were demonstrated this week when Tzipi Livni met with Foreign Secretary William Hague in London and managed to avoid arrest...

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  • January 25, 2014

    From Tunisia, to whom it may concern

    Events in Tunisia carry several important messages for us. When the results of the Tunisian election came through, many were surprised that the An-Nahda Party had done so well,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Russell Tribunal on Palestine can promote peace, truth and reconciliation

    The Israel-Palestine situation demands truth and reconciliation. We hope to aid that process. Opportunities to break seemingly intractable and deadlocked situations are rare – especially on a scale which...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Territory of lies

    The Israeli-Occupied hearing on alleged Iranian terror In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force –...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Winning the Battle of UNESCO

    Israel wants to punish the Palestinians because they obtained full membership of UNESCO; the United States wants to punish UNESCO because it granted Palestine full membership. In the presence...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere

    Surely the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone. He had already recast himself as the self-appointed guardian of Israel’s world...

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  • January 25, 2014

    US aid for Egypt: between American vision and Egyptian pressure

    It is believed widely in Egypt that US aid to the country is a sign of Egyptian weakness, but the Americans see it differently. If Egypt wasn’t important strategically,...

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