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Shrinking the Pentagon

Now that Joe Biden is slated to take office as the 46th president of the United States, advice on how he should address a wide range of daunting problems is flooding in. Nowhere is there more at stake than when it comes to how he handles this country’s highly militarized …

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The Center Cannot Hold: Biden and the Challenge for Progressives

The election is over and Trump, with or without conceding, will leave the White House. The jubilant Democrats cheer on the president-elect as he convenes his center-right administration. The disaster of four more years of Trumpogarchy was indeed incomprehensible. Having the old, corrupt party machine back in power has never …

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Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?

Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last …

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The Planet Cannot Heal Until We Rip the Mask Off the West’s War Machine

Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into …

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Hundreds of Syrian mercenaries return from Karabakh

More than 2,580 Syrian combatants had been sent to back Baku in total, of whom 293 have died, according to the SOHR monitoring group. More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian mercenaries have returned to Syria since the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for …

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Regime Gives Russia Green Light to Dig for Oil

The regime has given licences to two Russian companies, which allow them to explore for oil in Syria writes The Levant News. On Tuesday, the Syrian regime granted a license to the two Russian companies, Mercury and Vilada, for oil exploration in Syria, so that Russia could further spread its …

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Turkish Reinforcements Pour Into Northwestern Syria

As they withdraw from more points that are surrounded by the Syrian army, Turkish forces send additional troops and resources in Idleb reports Al-Masdar. The Turkish Armed Forces sent a large convoy of reinforcements to the northwestern region of Syria on Monday, coinciding with their recent withdrawals from areas surrounded …

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Airstrike kills IRGC commander at Iraq-Syria border – Iraqi officials

Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups helped retrieve the bodies, the two officials said, without elaborating or giving the exact time of the incident. BAGHDAD – An airstrike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on …

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Will Trump leave Biden a war in the Middle East?

Fear of a possible war with Iran is growing after the assassination of the man believed to be responsible for Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The simmering fear among Middle East watchers that President Donald Trump might attack Iran in the waning days of his presidency was inflamed on Friday when …

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