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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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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
I. Winning the Intelligence War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

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

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Asia Times, October 12, 2006 Introduction Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of

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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
II. Winning the Ground War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

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

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Asia Times, October 13, 2006 Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly

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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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31/03/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
I. Talking With the ‘Terrorists’

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Part one: Asia Times, March 31, 2006 Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told

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08/08/2005 Interview

Fostering Muslim-West Dialogue

Tags: Al Qaeda, Dialogue, Middle East, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Humayun Chaudhry, Al Jazeera, August 8, 2005 Alastair Crooke is a former official with Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency who has worked

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03/06/2004 Article

The Price of Ignorance

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Middle East

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Bitterlemons, June 3, 2004 Returning from living for nine months in Bethlehem at the height of this intifada, my son–a journalist–stood in the driveway of

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