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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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18/01/2010 Article

The Experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran – The Contemporary Debate

The Islamic Revolution in Iran has become defined for many by the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the Jurist’s Guardianship).

/ Sheikh Chafiq Jeradeh

Tags: Iran

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The Islamic Revolution in Iran has come to be defined for many by the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the Jurist’s Guardianship), instituted by Imam Khomeini

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11/01/2010 Publication

Cultures of Resistance, issue III

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Tags: Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Political Islam, Sufism, War on terrorism

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Volume I, Issue III: The Building of a Docile Islam in Britain: How not to Prevent Violent Exremism Spoooked! How not to Prevent Violent Extremism

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03/12/2009 Article

President Obama: Getting to ‘Yes’

The region sees the drift of power from erstwhile US allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, towards the northern tier, and is starting to readjust to the new power reality.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, Obama administration

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Article posted on both Asia Times and www.theraceforiran.com. An edited version of the article was also published in the New York Times. Whilst America has

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01/12/2009 Interview

Alastair Crooke on Politique Internationale

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Interview (in French) in Politique Internationale by Olivier Guez December 2009

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12/11/2009 Article

Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?

The Revolution is a ‘grand refusal’ to accept an understanding of the Self, or of the world about us, dominated by contemporary western consciousness.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Islam and globalization, Islamists, Modernity

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New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same

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01/11/2009 Publication

Businessmen Posing as Revolutionaries: General Dayton and the “new Palestinian Breed”

/ Aisling Byrne

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama administration

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28/10/2009 Article

Yemen: A Slogan and Six Wars

The violent rebellion is drawing the attention of regional and international actors to the formidable set of threats confronting the sole republic in the Arabian Peninsula.

/ Khaled Fattah

Tags: Saudi Arabia, Yemen

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Yemen, the weakest, least developed and most tribal Middle Eastern state is battling for the sixth time a Shi’ite Zaydi rebellion in the mountainous north

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18/10/2009 Article

Nukes Aside, the Real Problem with Iran

It might seem counterintuitive to most Americans and Europeans, but Ahmadinejad’s advice might be worth pondering.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Disarmament, Iran, Obama administration

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Published in the Christian Science Monitor, the LA Times and Council for Foreign Relations (USA). Distributed by Tribune Media Services. The country is emerging as

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18/10/2009 Article

Political Islamic and Jihadi Movements

Here we are, today, facing three different classifications of Islamic movements: traditional institutions; political Islamist movements; and the Islamic resistance movements.

/ Sheikh Chafiq Jaredah

Tags: Political Islam

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Director, Institute for Sapiential Knowledge for Religious and Philosophical Studies, Beirut In His name be He exalted It is appropriate to adopt caution, and to

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