Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Afghanistan follies
The end of the 20-year US-Afghanistan adventure is another one of imperialism’s overreaching, supremely arrogant, regime change projects ending in fiasco, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Ronald Reagan talks to mojahedin forces at the White House during the cold war
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
FOR most of the post-war era, the US and Israel — the anointed police agent of the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia — promoted Islamism as a bulwark against secularists and socialists.
Both governments offered arms and aid, while enthusiastically tolerating cultural and political backwardness in the service of imperialist interests.
From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Bashar al-Assad, the US counterposed Islamist “freedom fighters,” with their feudal values and intolerance, against imperfect but secular, anti-monarchical, independent and nationalist regimes.
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