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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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01/11/2011 Article

Foreign Intervention in Syria: No Room for Equivocation

These fears are not based on a general reading of the situation, but on concrete evidence about the course the US, Europe, and their Arab clients have decided to take.

/ Ibrahim Al-Amin

Tags: Middle East, Syria

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Article posted on Al-Akhbar English, 01 November 2011 Syria today is approaching a new crossroads… These fears are not based on a general reading of

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22/10/2011 Article

The ‘Great Game’ in Syria

This is today's "great game": the US-instigated "color" revolutions in former Soviet republics have given way to a bloodier, more multi-layered process today, but the psychology remains unchanged.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Obama administration, Syria

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Article posted on Asia Times Online, 22 October 2011 This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick

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15/07/2011 Article

Unfolding the Syrian Paradox

One of the problems with unfolding the Syria paradox is that there is a genuine, domestic demand for change.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Democracy, Syria

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Article originally posted on Asia Times Online Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a “pure” Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent,

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11/04/2011 Article

The Arab Awakening and Syrian Exceptionalism

This conviction about Assad – that he is not old guard – is widely held in Syria, even by many who have been demonstrating in the streets.

/ Alistair Crooke

Tags: Syria

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Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com Cleavage in political culture between the domestic and external could not have been better illustrated than in President Bashar Assad’s March

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22/01/2008 Article

Nasrallah Forecasts the Prospect of Coming Conflict

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Tags: Bush Administration, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria

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On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is

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17/01/2008 Article

A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood

In the post-9/11 world, the new (and uniquely Christian) dispensation not only dictates that you tear down fences, but that you butt into his business and bend him to your will.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Israel, Syria

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Bitter Lemons, January 17, 2008 “Good fences make good neighbors,” the American poet Robert Frost once wrote, and he oughta know. The failed farmer turned

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14/10/2007 Article

Ticking Clocks and ‘Accidental’ War

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, Syria

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An edited version of this article appeared in the October edition of US/ME Policy Brief, US/Middle East Project. Whilst Washington looks at the Iranian prospects

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01/07/2007 Interview

Video: Middle East – Behind the Conflict

Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria

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Avi Lewis, from the Canadian television international affairs analysis program, On The Map, recently interviewed Conflicts Forum director, Alastair Crooke. The broadcast aired on CBC,

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