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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Government’s ‘Orwellian’ unit blocked infected blood scandal disclosure
Campaigner whose father died of HIV calls secrecy ‘outrageous’; staff in Michael Gove’s Cabinet Office cited Chilcot...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat does Biden’s presidency mean for the future of the Gulf?
Will the new president undo Trump’s hawkish stance on Iran, Yemen, Libya and Qatar?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat can the 2019 uprisings in North Africa and West Asia teach us?
Only by building regional bridges can effective resistance to global capitalism be achieved.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA year after the October uprising, Iraqis have more reasons to protest
Iraq’s October uprising was a wake-up call for desperate generations caught in an endless cycle of poverty,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBBC’s documentary on the Iraq war overlooks genocide
BBC’s documentary 'Once upon a Time in Iraq' ignores the decimation of the Christian and Yazidi communities.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs Iraq joining the Trump-MBS alliance?
The Trump-MBS alliance could shore up Iraq’s corrupt ruling families in return for keeping US troops in the country.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor Iraqis, the choice is between pandemic or poverty
In the streets of Baghdad, Iraqis battle a corrupt political class, war, poverty, and now a pandemic that has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill the new Iraqi government face the domestic violence epidemic?
With domestic violence reaching alarming levels in Iraq during the pandemic, can the Iraqi government do the right thing?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reimagining victory by winning the peace
If we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequality
The coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immune
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCasualties of ‘war on terror’ in Iraq: life, security and liberty
Mapping the conflict and its casualties can change our understanding of this war and any war.
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Published in: Home‘Light touch’ or boots on the ground? US warfare has failed either way
High-tech warfare is not defeating the US’s many enemies any better than its vast army did – and that leaves the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran and Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance against the revolution in Iraq
Iraq’s uprising is unmasking all the sectarian leaders attempting to ride the revolutionary wave.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Trump is outrageous – but US foreign policy is the killer
Trump’s assassination of Qessim Soleimani follows a policy of international lawlessness that has been supported by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran: wanting revenge but needing compromise
How is Soleimani’s demise likely to alter Iran’s policy options?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIraq’s security 2003-2019: death and neoliberal destruction par excellence
Between 2003 and 2020 the only constants have been the following: communal violence, terrorism, poverty, weapons...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA country is in the making: report from Baghdad’s occupied Tahrir square
After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe world’s most powerful gunship cannot win the war in Afghanistan
The US responded to the Iraqi insurgency with punishment raids. It didn’t work, but today’s commanders don’t seem to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom Iraq to Lebanon and back: the people want the fall of the regime
Protestors are clear: they do not want reforms, they want a revolution.