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Opinion: US intervention leaves rifts that take years to heal

By Brian Berletic With so many countries around the globe still subjected to US influence, either literally occupied by US military forces, or ruled by a government helped into power by significant US assistance (or a combination of…
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Opinion: Millions Dead from Post-9/11 US Wars: An Unconscionable Cost

By David Kanbergs Last week, researchers working with Brown University’s Costs of War project released a substantial report detailing the number of indirect deaths caused by the various wars in which the United States has been involved…
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Opinion: Why the dollar’s dominance is declining in the Middle East

By Cathrin Schaer Iraq has just banned US-dollar transactions, the Saudis and Emiratis plan to sell oil without it and there are plans to establish a whole new currency to bypass it. To know why, first have a look at the war in Ukraine. Anyone…
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Opinion: Is the Palestine Resistance rendering Israel supremacy useless?

Dr Mustafa Fetouri Life is returning to normal in besieged Gaza, but "normal" there is actually abnormal. Israel accepted the ceasefire after killing some 33 people, including children, injuring over 90 civilians and making nearly 2,000…
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The Nakba: Remembering what was lost in Palestine in 1948

By MEE staff The Nakba (the Catastrophe) dismantled Palestine and Palestinian society 75 years ago through the destruction of 500 villages, the forced exile of half of the Palestinian population, the loss of prominent…
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Opinion: US Sanctions Are Brutal and Inhumane. And They Don’t Work

BY BRANKO MARCETIC Sanctions are a form of collective punishment. Their costs are overwhelmingly borne by innocent people rather than governments. And they are just another form of war, not an alternative to it. The US’s many sanctions…
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Opinion: How to Withdraw From Iraq Within Five Years

By Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein Two decades of intervention March 2023 marked two decades since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein is long gone, memories of the post–invasion civil war are fading (from the American mind,…
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Opinion: The Graveyard of Promises: The Case of Afghanistan

By Arezo Farah For the last twenty years, the leading narratives surrounding foreign intervention in Afghanistan have painted the country as a state-building project. Common buzzwords such as “nation-building”, “fighting terrorists”…
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Opinion: The failure of NATO to subdue Afghanistan

By Shane Quinn By 2008 US President George W. Bush was no longer talking about winning in Iraq. Around 500,000 American soldiers had been sent to Iraq between 2003 and 2008, but the US military was unable to overcome the Middle East…
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Opinion: Mission Accomplished? The Iraq War 20 years later

By Clint Van Winkle May 1, 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of former President George W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a crew of about 5,500 US…