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Military Interventionism Is The New White Man’s Burden
The white Western compulsion to blunder across the globe to save people from themselves is nothing new, it was just rebranded. The decades following the end of the Cold War were good ones for...
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Syria: Give Non interventionism a chance
Being a non-interventionist is not easy; after all, the emotive arguments are all on the side of war. With pictures of chemical weapon attacks pushing people into demanding that we do ‘something’ it...
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The 5 Breeds Of Hawk Circling Syria
As the war drums beat in Paris and Washington, we look at the five types of British hawk eager to get a piece of the action in Syria Maude Flanders Collective The vaguest but perhaps most sincere of...
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Obama’s Hypocrisy: Chemical Weapons Are Bad, But Drones Are Acceptable
President Obama made an address on September 10th to the nation of Syria. The first point of criticism is that the speech is over-dramatic and theatrical – it just seems so obviously rehearsed. Obama...
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Syria: Russia 1-0 USA
Putin and Lavrov have run rings around Obama and Kerry over Syria What now for American-Russian relations? The Russian plan to see Bashar al-Assad remain in power in Syria and hand over his chemical...
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Is It Time To Just Let Assad Win?
A regime victory is now the least bad outcome for Syria and the world. It’s cost over 100,000 dead, with millions languishing in refugee camps and swaths of ancient cities heartbreakingly destroyed by...
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Skype hacked by ‘Syrian Electronic Army’.
Social Media service Skype has been hacked by a group which calls itself the ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ (SEA). Skype (Technologies), an organisation owned by Microsoft, was the victim of an online hack...
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Putin’s Spluttering Petro-Empire
The breakneck pace of events in Ukraine are part of a much larger geopolitical story of Russia and its post Soviet place in the world. When Vladimir Putin came to power (the first time) he came with an...
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Obama’s Amateur Hour Foreign Policy Legacy
On Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Libya and Iraq, Obama has stumbled from one crisis to another with seemingly limitless ineptitude It started well enough; in his first major foreign policy speech after...
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The Syrian butchery is Ed Miliband’s main legacy
How will history remember Ed Miliband? I don’t blame you if you haven’t given this question much thought. Ed Miliband doesn’t give the impression of being a has been, he gives the impression of being a...
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