Tag Archive: Middle East/Turkey

How Venezuela Has Held Back COVID-19 in Spite of the U.S. Sanctions Stranglehold on Its Economy

Released for Syndication: 10/29/2020

Not for one minute during this pandemic has the United States stopped trying to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. A seam...

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Time Is Not on Our Side in Libya

Released for Syndication: 07/21/2020

Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts...

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How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order

Released for Syndication: 06/24/2020

U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical...

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Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle

Released for Syndication: 06/12/2020

The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in...

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NATO Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia

Released for Syndication: 06/01/2020

The great game in Libya has begun surging with the United States shedding its strategic ambivalence and resorting to a proactive role. At the...

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Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same

Released for Syndication: 04/28/2020

The upheavals in the oil market are flipping the world on its head and again proving that rational industrial policy is a better guidance.

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BlackRock Profits in a Time of Crisis

Released for Syndication: 03/23/2020

With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling to address the refugee crisis in the wake of the global pandemic,...

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Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders

Released for Syndication: 02/04/2020

Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the...

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The War in Libya Will Never End

Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020

General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) continue to partly encircle Libya’s capital, Tripoli. Not only does the LNA threaten Tripoli, but...

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Russia and Turkey Are Engaged in a Delicate Dance in the Eastern Mediterranean

Released for Syndication: 01/03/2020

Libya’s call seeking military assistance from Turkey and the latter’s prompt announcement on December 26 of its readiness to meet the request as early...

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