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Threats to democracy and equality under-law
Factsheet: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Official name: COVID-19 Also known as: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease; SARS-CoV-2 Type: Coronaviruses; there are many different types as the name indicates, the virus is related to the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome
Iran’s miscalculation
On the 3rd of January Iran and its allies reacted with outrage over the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. In the political ramble that ensued short afterwards, Iran vowed to take revenge over the IRGC's Quds Force leader’s death. Needless
Why the killing of Qasem Soleimani isn’t war
Qasem Soleimani, who was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike on the 3nd of January 2020. Killed with him was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the
Hostilities by nationals in foreign service
Over the past few years it has become evident that both Iraq and Syria have turned into failed states. The Islamic State (IS before that ISIS) saw the opportunity and took it while in Iraq al-Maliki was consolidating his base of power.
Brexit and populism
This is a re-post of a blog post I did on own blog in 2016. Three years later and Brexit still hasn't happened or has it? The one constant in Europe thus far has been populism. The word Brexit shows
A history of violence; teaching a new generation how not to resolve conflicts
Back in 2016 I wrote the article below as a dire warning for the children that were being subjected to the Syrian conflict in all its forms, as well as to what it means for us internationally. Now, three years
Winning the Peace in Iraq Don’t Give Up on Baghdad’s Fragile Democracy
By Linda Robinson Rescue mission: Mike Pompeo in Baghdad, January 2019Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Reuters For Americans who came of age near the turn of the current century, the war in Iraq was a generation-defining experience. When the United States invaded the
Gulf-Israel Ties Might Not Survive Trump’s Peace Plan
BY DANIEL B. SHAPIRO, YOEL GUZANSKY Saudi Minister of State Mohammed al-Shaikh arrives for the second day of a U.S.-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain on June 26. SHAUN TANDON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The U.S.-sponsored Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, last month—an
The Last War—and the Next? Learning the Wrong Lessons From Iraq By Jon Finer
Earlier this year, the U.S. Army published two volumes that amount to the most comprehensive official history of the Iraq war. They cover the conflict’s most important episodes: the U.S. invasion in 2003, the death spiral into civil war that took