On the Ground in Syria: Terrorist groups, Turkish threats & Russian overtures
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi Turkish threats of a wide-scale military operation in northern Syria and a Syrian-Kurdish approach under Russian auspices, while al-Julani continues his plan to control Idlib. *...
Afghanistan: Answering Kit Knightly’s “6 Questions”
Andrew Korybko This article was originally published on One World Press in response to this piece by one of our editors. But in the interests of promoting honest debate...
6 Questions we NEED to ask about Afghanistan
Kit Knightly Afghanistan has “fallen”, that’s the line. The Taliban forces have taken the opportunity of US/NATO withdrawal and swept across the entire country, taking every major city within...
This Week in the New Normal #2
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
WATCH: The Afghanistan Papers Are Establishment Whitewash BS
The Afghanistan Papers! The Afghanistan Papers! Everyone is talking about the Afghanistan Papers! These “incredible” documents must be full of “explosive revelations” about the US-led NATO invasion and 18-year...
Farewelling Dr No: The Sacking of John Bolton
Binoy Kampmark “Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, Chairman of...
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
Binoy Kampmark It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole superpower on...
Reasons to be Cautious About US ‘Withdrawal’ from Afghanistan
James O’Neill The weeks before and since Christmas have seen and acceleration of efforts to achieve a peace settlement in Afghanistan. What is interesting is that the countries that...
Getting Out of Afghanistan, Staying Out of Venezuela
David Lindsay As it was always going to do, the war in Afghanistan is culminating in the victory of the people who had never had anywhere else to go....
