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Marco Carnelos – How Syria became the battleground for Israeli and Turkish influence

August 12, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Israel and Turkey are competing for regional hegemony, and Syria is their new battleground. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in […]

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David Hearst: Syria must put an end to Israel’s incursions – and fast

March 3, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Israel, in its bid for regional hegemony, wants a weak and divided Syria, a mortal threat to the new regime in Damascus. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a […]

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David Hearst – How Israel’s plan to carve up Syria was thwarted by Assad’s downfall

December 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

This puts a different light on what has happened in Syria and why. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on […]

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Matt Broomfield – The Balkan Scenario

December 19, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Syria may go the way of the former Yugoslavia, and be carved up into ethnically divided states in a process heavily dictated by the Western powers. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Chris Bambery – Imperialist ambitions in Syria and the Middle East 

December 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

All foreign troops need to get out of Syria. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator, and a supporter of Rise, the radical left wing coalition in Scotland. His books include A People’s History of Scotland and The […]

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Cihan Tugal – Erdoğan’s Syria?

December 16, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Turkey has clearly won a geopolitical victory, but fantasies about a Turkish takeover are overblown. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Vijay Prashad – The fall of the Assad government in Syria

December 16, 2024 Ben Wray 0

In-depth analysis of the dynamics which led to Assad’s fall. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of US Power (New Press, August 2022). This article […]

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Anatol Lieven: The fall of Assad is a defeat for Russia — and no ‘win’ for the US

December 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Zero-sum geopolitics is in vogue, but in the long-term none of the major powers win from chaos and failed states. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. […]

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Tariq Ali – The Roads to Damascus

December 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A grim read, describing what has happened in the Middle East over the past year as a ‘mini-1967 for the Arab World’. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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David Hearst – Assad downfall: Is the Arab Spring back from the dead?

December 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Could what has happened in Syria spark a re-birth of revolts across the Arab world? David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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