imperialism

Articles

• « Le Naufrage des civilisations » d’Amin Maalouf
  31 mai 2019, par siawi3

  Il s’inquiétait il y a vingt ans de la montée des « Identités meurtrières »

• Israel and the Messiah’s ass
  23 June 2017, by siawi3

  As for the consequences of the war, to say that it “was a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East” is, like most clichés, evidently true. Secular Arab nationalism was dealt a blow from which it has not recovered, while Israel emerged as a regional strongman, America’s local enforcer.

• South Asia: Russia, Iran ties with Taliban stoke Afghan anxiety
  29 December 2016, by siawi3

  Concerns of a renewed “Great Game” of proxy warfare in Afghanistan: “No country should be in touch with destructive groups who are the enemies of Afghanistan. This shows disrespect towards the victims of war,” interior ministry spokesman Sediq Siddiqi told AFP.“We ask Russia and Iran to work with Afghans to defeat terrorism.”

• The Syrian revolution and the failure of the “anti-imperialist” left
  16 February 2019, by siawi3

  Beginning with the distinction between enemy or friend an equally simplistic train of thought concludes that the strongest opponent of the enemy, i.e. American imperialism, is our closest friend and consequently the most powerful of the “objectively progressive” forces. “Objectively progressive,” means that whatever crimes this adversary has committed against the masses he will always play – as long as he remains an opponent of “objectively reactionary” imperialism – a positive role in the future developments in the region.

• USA: A Cautious Examination of the New Alliance Against Qatar
  11 June 2017, by siawi3

  It is too early to provide a reliable analysis of the Persian Gulf crisis sparked by the abrupt decision of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies to break diplomatic and economic relations with Qatar. There are too many actors, conflicts, mixed and hidden motives and contradictions at play. Yet, one can clearly assert that it has nothing to do with strengthening the anti-ISIS, anti-extremist coalition of Arab forces, and that it is directed as much at Iran as Qatar.

• Protest urges Commonwealth leaders to scrap anti-LGBT laws
  20 April 2018, by siawi3

  “It is time these 36 Commonwealth countries accepted their LGBT+ citizens. Homophobia should be expunged from the Commonwealth. Anti-gay laws in Commonwealth countries are mostly the result of colonialism. They should be scrapped.”

• Un seul objectif, détruire la Syrie
  13 décembre 2016, par siawi3

  Au Yémen, où des enfants et des femmes meurent aussi injustement, c’est officiellement une coalition d’Etats qui bombarde. Dans la ville syrienne d’Alep, ce sont des groupes armés, recrutés par l’Arabie Saoudite et ses alliés qataris et turcs du moment, avec le soutien occidental, qui se battent.

• Syria: Report from Aleppo: A Historic Moment
  14 December 2016, by siawi3

  over the past few years, I have been listening to the voices of ordinary Syrians whose cries and experiences of brutality and violence at the hands of extremist terrorist factions supported by the international community have been ignored by the outside world; and whose suffering in the conflict has been exploited and heightened by the arrogant intransigence and bloody-minded single-mindedness of an international agenda that has nothing to do with the interests or human rights of the Syrian people.

• Reportage d’Alep : un moment historique
  14 décembre 2016, par siawi3

  La communauté internationale appelle à un cessez-le-feu. Pourquoi, diable, quand l’armée syrienne fait de tels progrès que le gens d’Alep célèbrent et quand chaque cessez-le-feu jusqu’ici a été utilisé pour réapprovisionner les terroristes, le gouvernement syrien s’arrêterait-il maintenant ? Aussi longtemps que les terroristes liés à al-Qaeda, soutenus par l’Occident, ont les moyens d’opérer, il ne peut et il n’y aura pas de paix dans la ville ou le pays. Croyez-moi, la plupart des Syriens acclament leur armée.

• Russia’s influence has risen but Iran is the real winner in Aleppo
  19 December 2016, by siawi3

  Tehran’s help in securing Syria’s second city is much less to do with re-establishing state sovereignty than about asserting its own agenda

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