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As Turkey Bombs US-Backed Kurdish Fighters, Dozens of Oil and Power Facilities Damaged in NE Syria
Ankara, Washington’s NATO ally, has been waging a now week-long bombing campaign against Kurdish armed factions in US-occupied Syria. Turkey’s airstrikes have damaged or destroyed more than half of the oil and power facilities, east of the Euphrates River, in the...
It’s All About Provoking Your Reaction
So wise up! With terrorism, as with all asymmetric political action, "the action is in the reaction of the opposition," as Saul Alinsky, the leftist activist, put it in his book Rules for Radicals. This isn't conspiracy stuff, nor impossible "4th dimensional...
Turkish Airstrikes Kill More Kurdish Fighters in US Occupied Syria
Ankara, Washington’s NATO ally, continued launching airstrikes in northeast Syria on Monday against US-backed Kurdish militias. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 20 people were killed and dozens more were wounded. Turkey’s latest...
War Guilt in the Middle East
This article was originally featured in Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967 and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or...
Qatar Offers to Host Russia and Ukraine for Talks
A Qatari official said Doha could potentially host diplomats from Russia and Ukraine for negotiations aimed at ending the war. Qatar recently played a crucial role in brokering the release of American prisoners in Iran. In an interview with Newsweek, Qatari diplomat...
Someone Wants ‘the War to Continue’
At times, Ukraine has been unwilling to negotiate an end to the ongoing war with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has gone so far as to issue a decree banning negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At other times, Russia has given up on...
News Roundup 9/27/2023
US News Senator Robert Menendez denied the allegations levied against him by the Department of Justice. Last week, a grand jury indicted the powerful Senator on bribery charges. Investigators found hundreds of thousands of dollars said to be payments to access the...
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