Amid demonstrations against his first choice, US President Donald Trump named general Herbert McMaster, whose book claiming the US was too soft on Vietnam is now required reading for US officers, as his new national security adviser in February.
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Britain is currently backing a Saudi-led invasion of Yemen that has cost thousands of innocent lives. It is providing advanced weaponry to the Saudis, training their military and has soldiers embedded with them, helping with the targeting of air (...)
The recent debate in the British House of Commons on bombing Syria saw comparisons coming thick and fast. “ISlamic State [IS] are the fascists of our time,” said Labour MP Dan Jarvis. “This is the fascist war of our generation,” opined Sarah (...)
Nigeria's Boko Haram is now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of the Cameron & co war on Libya — and one that was perhaps not entirely unintended.
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The Yemen peace talks in Geneva broke down last week before they even got underway. Indeed, the delegations never even made it into the same room. This came as no great surprise to either observers or participants in the disastrous war in Yemen.
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Nasir Al-Wuhayshi, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), an amalgam of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of the Al-Qaeda franchise, was recently executed in a US drone strike in Yemen.
He was reportedly killed while relaxing on a beach in (...)
The Islamic State (IS) suicide bombings carried out in Yemen and Saudi Arabia last month, in which more than 43 people died, are yet more bitter fruit of the policy pursued by Britain, the US and France and their Gulf allies over the past eight (...)
Western states are trumpeting the Islamic State (IS) as the latest threat to civilisation, claiming total commitment to its defeat and using the group's conquests in Syria and Iraq as a pretext for deepening their own military involvement in the (...)
Using the spectre of Islamic State (IS) terrorism as cover, David Cameron is pushing through the latest chapter in the British state's ongoing crackdown on civil liberties. But he is doing nothing to stop the terrorism he has helped to create.
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Africa's classic depiction in the mainstream Western media, as a giant basket-case full of endless war, famine and helpless children, creates an illusion of a continent utterly dependent on Western handouts.
In fact, the precise opposite is true — (...)
Africa's classic depiction in the mainstream Western media, as a giant basket-case full of endless war, famine and helpless children, creates an illusion of a continent utterly dependent on Western handouts.
In fact, the precise opposite is true — (...)
NATO's destruction of Libya as an independent regional power has paved the way for the military re-conquest of Africa,writes Dan Glazebrook*
The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by NATO and its allies is becoming horribly clearer with (...)
Western attempts to destroy Syria have not been going to plan, revealing that what the West fears most is a peaceful resolution to the crisis, writes Dan Glazebrook*
The strategy was simple, clear, tried and tested. It had been used successfully not (...)
By whitewashing the Libyan rebels and demonising the Gaddafi regime did the leading US intellectual Noam Chomsky help facilitate an imperialist invasion? In a wide-ranging interview with Chomsky, Dan Glazebrook asks him
This was a difficult (...)
Touted as part of a war of liberation, NATOs intervention in Libya aims to stymie moves to strengthen African unity and independence, writes Dan Glazebrook from London
Africa the key to global economic growth: this was a refreshingly honest recent (...)