The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion about the relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The aim of this paper is to remove this confusion. The paper is organised in three parts. In Part I we state our own position of the capitalism-imperialism relation. In part II …
Read More »Choosing Not to Choose: Obama’s Dithering on Syria
Paul Saunders When President Barack Obama acknowledged in September 2014 that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), he stunned his supporters and detractors alike. Obama was similarly candid nine months later, when he announced in a June …
Read More »How Would Turkey End? – Some Scenarios
By Stana Dubajic • After downing of the Russian SU-24 fighter-jet over Syrian airspace for an alleged ‘Turkish airspace violation’, the US probably expected Russia to retaliate militarily, which would then ‘justify’ deeper military involvement of US-UK-NATO alliance in the Syrian-Iraqi battlefield. Since Russia and Iran would not let …
Read More »What’s behind the Iraq-Turkey spat?
David Barchard The announcement on 3 December that Turkey had sent a detachment of 150 soldiers and seven tanks over 100km south of the border to the town of Bashiqa in Iraq added a new and confusing strand to the tangle of international disputes Turkey is currently involved …
Read More »Yemen truce begins with Swiss talks
The Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that a ceasefire in Yemen will begin the following morning instead of at midnight as earlier announced, as warring parties prepared for UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland. The coalition which launched an air campaign against the Houthi militia and its allies in …
Read More »Libyan Saga: UAE and Qatar Fighting for Gaddafi’s Legacy
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar have a unique opportunity to re-shape the future of post-Gaddafi Libya, but instead they are fuelling an insurgency in the North African region, US experts Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagner note. Since toppling of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi the UAE and Qatar …
Read More »Western Media Readers on Aegean Sea Incident: ‘Kick Turkey Out of NATO’
The Aegean Sea incident with a Russian destroyer makes it obvious that Turkey should be ousted from NATO; meanwhile, Western governments are pretending they are blind, say the readers of Western Media. Readers are outraged with Turkey’s reaction to the Sunday incident with a Turkish fishing seiner approaching the Russian Smetlivy …
Read More »Illegal Slaughter: Cameron’s Bombings of Syria, Equals Blair’s Iraq War Crimes
“Russia bombing Syria will lead to further radicalization and increased terrorism”. Prime Minister David Cameron, 4th October 2015. How desperately Prime Minister Cameron has been yearning to bomb the Syrian Arab Republic. In August 2013 when his aim was defeated in Parliament by a 285-272 vote, his vision …
Read More »A Chinese Marshall Plan for the Muslim World?
Chinese and American officials are engaged in quiet, but intense behind the scenes discussions about a greater role for China in bringing stability to the Muslim world, through targeted investments in job-creating infrastructure projects in war-torn regions of Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The Obama …
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