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Mass Protests Grow as Military Drags Egypt Back to Dictatorship
Since the coup by Egypt's military, political repression in Egypt has intensified.
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The Syrian War and “Sectarianism“
Sectarian violence should be seen as the result of specific political and economic developments, rather than their cause.
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American Jihad 2014: The New Fundamentalists
Tom Engelhardt: Imagine what we call "national security" as, at heart, a proselytizing warrior religion.
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2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt – the War Continues
2013 has been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed.
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Taksim Square Protesters Charged With Terrorism, Attempting Coup
Hundreds were indicted in Turkey for participating in the mass movement that started with Gezi Park and evolved into anti-Erdogan protests last summer.
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Letter From Cairo: Arab Winter and Revolutionary Regrets
It's a phrase you hear often in Egypt. "Before the revolution," locals say, things were bad but manageable.
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Filtered Opinion, Iran’s Capability and Our “Unreliable Gestures”: An Interview With Middle East Expert Lawrence Davidson
Middle East foreign-relations expert Lawrence Davidson talks about the debate over the Iran nuclear agreement and what it portends.
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Israel: Legitimacy and Behavior – an Analysis
In the end just existing will not confer legitimacy on Israel, just as merely being a living person does not confer a normal status in society to a criminal.
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Mandela and Arafat
In late February of 1990, just two weeks after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat.
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Seymour Hersh: Obama “Cherry-Picked” Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack to Justify US Strike
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh casts doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration's claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical attacks in the Damascus …