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Middle East

Gulf War I was a Pyrrhic victory that led to another avoidable war today

Iran’s regional power and political influence greatly expanded after its nemesis Saddam Hussein was finally removed, with all too obvious implications

Alternative vs. legacy media
Media

Ding dong the legacy media and its slavish war reporting is dead

The rise of independent media has shattered the grip of corporate news and is providing serious challenges to government and establishment narratives

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Middle East

Think COVID has stunted growth? Try 30 years of conflict.

Readers are stunned at what 12 months of COVID have done to US children. Imagine how a generation of Iraqis have fared under our wars.

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Europe

When the neocons wanted to 'go all the way to Baghdad' after 1991 war

H.W. Bush instead showed restraint. His son, a decade later, did not. There are lessons for our next steps with Putin here.