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05/01/2012 Article

A Mistaken Case for Syrian Regime Change

Arguably, the most important component in this struggle has been the deliberate construction of a largely false narrative pitting unarmed democracy demonstrators against an oppressive regime.

/ Aisling Byrne

Tags: Democracy, Iran, Middle East, Syria

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Article posted on Asia Times Online on 05 January 2012 and republished by Counterpunch in the USA. “War with Iran is already here,” wrote a

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04/11/2011 Article

Syria and Iran: The Great Game

This is today's “great game” – losing Syria. And this is how it is played.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Democracy, Iran, Obama administration, Syria

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Article posted on The Guardian, 04 November 2011 This summer a senior Saudi official told John Hannah, Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, that from

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01/11/2011 Article

Foreign Intervention in Syria: No Room for Equivocation

These fears are not based on a general reading of the situation, but on concrete evidence about the course the US, Europe, and their Arab clients have decided to take.

/ Ibrahim Al-Amin

Tags: Middle East, Syria

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Article posted on Al-Akhbar English, 01 November 2011 Syria today is approaching a new crossroads… These fears are not based on a general reading of

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22/10/2011 Article

The ‘Great Game’ in Syria

This is today's "great game": the US-instigated "color" revolutions in former Soviet republics have given way to a bloodier, more multi-layered process today, but the psychology remains unchanged.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Obama administration, Syria

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Article posted on Asia Times Online, 22 October 2011 This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick

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15/07/2011 Article

Unfolding the Syrian Paradox

One of the problems with unfolding the Syria paradox is that there is a genuine, domestic demand for change.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Democracy, Syria

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Article originally posted on Asia Times Online Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a “pure” Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent,

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28/06/2011 Article

Ayatollah Khamenei and a Principled Foreign Policy

Without the advantage of being the founder of the Revolution, in some respects his leadership has been more impressive than that of the late Imam.

/ Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Iraq, Islam and globalization

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Paper presented at the International Conference: RENOVATION & INTELLECTUAL IJTIHAD IN IMAM KHAMENEI, Beirut, 6 & 7 June 2011. One of the most important points

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11/04/2011 Article

The Arab Awakening and Syrian Exceptionalism

This conviction about Assad – that he is not old guard – is widely held in Syria, even by many who have been demonstrating in the streets.

/ Alistair Crooke

Tags: Syria

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Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com Cleavage in political culture between the domestic and external could not have been better illustrated than in President Bashar Assad’s March

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31/03/2011 Article

Post-Oslo State-Building Strategies and Their Limitations

The most immediate question is what is the bargaining power of the mainstream Palestinian leadership as it negotiates with Israel about sovereignty?

/ Professor Mushtaq Khan

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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The Yusif A Sayigh Development Lecture 2010 December 2010, MAS, Ramallah “The most immediate question in Palestine is what is the bargaining power of the

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08/03/2011 Article

Permanent Temporariness

A two-state solution does not solve the problem of how to maintain Zionism, it compounds it.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Diplomacy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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Article posted on London Review of Books It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which

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