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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA year after the October uprising, Iraqis have more reasons to protestIraq’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 genocideBBC’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 povertyIn 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 peaceIf 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 inequalityThe 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 immuneAre 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 libertyMapping 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 wayHigh-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 IraqIraq’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 killerTrump’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 compromiseHow 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 excellenceBetween 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 squareAfter 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 AfghanistanThe 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 regimeProtestors are clear: they do not want reforms, they want a revolution.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Iraq, demonstrators demand change and the government fights backInitially described as protests over the economy, they have become a call for revolution.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIraqis rise up against everything and everyone
In today’s Iraq, there are plenty of Saddams and plenty of Ba’athist-like parties that enjoy an agreed balance of power.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProtest movements in Iraq in the age of a ‘new civil society’For Iraqi youth, the demands for social justice and economic redistribution cannot be separated from the claim for...
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