Tag Archive: Middle East/Turkey
Donald Trump’s Final Act: Snuffing Out the Promise of Democracy in the Middle East
Released for Syndication: 12/17/2020
Ten years ago, a hawker in Tunisia set himself on fire, which spurred on people along the entire Mediterranean Sea—from Morocco to Spain—to rise...
Full ArticleHow 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...
Full ArticleTime 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...
Full ArticleHow 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...
Full ArticleTurkey’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...
Full ArticleNATO 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...
Full ArticleWhy 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.
Full ArticleBlackRock 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,...
Full ArticleLibya 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...
Full ArticleThe War in Libya Will Never End
Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020