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Invisible wars in the Age of Trump
February 6, 2017
Paul Rogers warns that the near invisibility of modern warfare will make democratic accountability in the age of Trump even more difficult. See Theresa May, Donald Trump and the wars to come (Open Democracy, 3 February 2017). The main reason why the current war is getting so little coverage in the western media is that […]
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Let’s not repeat past mistakes in Libya
March 2, 2016
Five years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, an international military intervention is once again being considered in response to the establishment of a branch of the Islamic State (IS) on the Libyan coast. At the beginning of February, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on coalition partners involved in the fight […]
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The devastating toll from coalition bombing
February 5, 2016
On 29 December 2015, the Iraqi military “liberated” the city of Ramadi, in Iraq, from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS, or ISIL) in an “epic” victory after a long offensive to retake the provincial capital from the terrorist group. In a televised press conference, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi praised the capture of the city, […]
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World ignored U.S. war crime in Somalia
February 1, 2016
The 2011 famine in Somalia was a U.S.-created war crime, according to journalist Alex Perry, and nobody paid much attention. In an interview on CBC Radio’s The Current, journalist Alex Perry discusses how the United States deliberately withheld food aid from al Shabab-controlled areas of Somalia during the 2011 famine that killed nearly 260,000 people. […]
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