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America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 18 Dec 2018 “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What

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25/10/2006 Article

Calculating Iran’s Iraq Impact: “It’s too late to switch sides” a Sunni leader argues

/ Baghdad Correspondent

Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq, War in Iraq

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Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Iraq was intended to show support for the battered government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it was clear

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14/10/2006 Article

Comment le Hezbollah a Vaincu Israël

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Traduit par Marcel Charbonnier et révisé par Fausto Giudice [La victoire du Hezbollah dans son récent conflit avec Israël est beaucoup plus significative que bien

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12/10/2006 Article

Así derrotó Hezbolá a Israel

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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Traductor: Traducido por Sinfo Fernández y Sonia Martínez y revisado por Caty R. PARTE 1: Ganando la guerra de la inteligencia El experto militar estadounidense,

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07/09/2006 Article

A Slippage in Language

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons

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Bitterlemons, September 7, 2006 Since talk of “Islamofascism” is so much in vogue these days, it might be useful to return to those years when

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31/08/2006 Article

The “New Orientalism”

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Europe, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war

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Bitterlemons, August 31, 2006 It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for

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10/08/2006 Article

Why America Can’t End the Conflict

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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Bitterlemons, August 10, 2006 Even the most unhappily married couple in the world knows this salient truth about their relationship: that there are things that

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08/08/2006 Article

The Loser in Lebanon: The Atlantic Alliance

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Europe, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, UN

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Asia Times, August 8, 2006 The United States and France have produced a United Nations resolution of sorts aimed at ending the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, but

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08/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
V. The Politics of Indignation

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 8, 2006 The foundational belief of the “war on terrorism” is that militant Islam is hollow. We are not fighting a credible

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06/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
IV. Acts of Faith

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism

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Asia Times, June 6, 2006 That talking and listening would now seem so difficult is not the result of some inherent inability of differing cultures

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