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Selected articles (October 17, 2019)
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1)
A Coalition of Support: Parliamentarians for Julian Assange
By Binoy Kampmark
October 14, 2019
https://ahtribune.com/world/wikileaks/3572-parliamentarians-for-julian-assange.html
“[…] If there was a time to fight legal eccentricity and viciousness, it is now. Just as Hicks and Habib faced complicity and a range of stretched and flexible legal categories, Assange faces that most elastic of instruments designed to stifle publishing and whistleblowing: the US Espionage Act of 1917. Should he be extradited from the United Kingdom and face the imperial goon squad in Washington, we will be spectators to that most depraved of state acts: the criminalization of publishing. Australia’s parliamentarians, never the sharpest tools in the political box, are starting to stir with that realization.”
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2a)
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
November 18, 2006
2b)
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The Infamous “Oded Yinon Plan”.
By Israel Shahak
Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky
September 06, 2015
updated September 13, 2019
2c)
“Greater Israel” and the Balkanization of the Middle East: Oded Yinon’s “Strategy for Israel”
By Adeyinka Makinde
July 30, 2018
“Greater Israel” and the Balkanization of the Middle East: Oded Yinon’s “Strategy for Israel”
2d)
DAESH („Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant“) (updated October 2019)
https://amirmortasawi.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/isil-19427868/
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3a)
Winners and Losers in the Turkish attack on Kurds in Syria
By Elijah J Magnier
Part 1
October 15, 2019
Part 2
October 16, 2019
Part 3 (will be published)
3b)
How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria’s Northeast Succeeds
The Syrian and Russian operations in the northeast of Syria are going well.
Moon of Alabama
October 16, 2019
3c)
Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country’s Northeastern Parts
Moon of Alabama
October 14, 2019
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/10/syria-regains-its-northeastern-parts.html#more
3d)
The Predictable Mess on Syria’s Border with Turkey
By Patrick Lawrence
October 14, 2019
3e)
Averting an ISIS Resurgence in Iraq and Syria
International Crisis Group
Report 207
October 11, 2019
3f)
Around the halls: Brookings experts’ reactions to Turkey’s incursion into Syria
Amanda Sloat, Kemal Kirişci, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ömer Taşpınar, Jeffrey Feltman, and Suzanne Maloney
October 10, 2019
3g)
Europe’s Failure in Syria
By Eldar Mamedov
October 16, 2019
https://lobelog.com/europes-failure-in-syria/
3h)
Statement Made By İsmail Cem, Foreign Minister, On The Special Security Meeting Held Between Turkey And Syria October 20, 1998 (Unofficial Translation)
3i)
The Kurdish Question Then and Now
By Samir Amin
October 2016
http://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/the-kurdish-question-then-and-now/
3j)
Kurdistan: The Next Flashpoint Between Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Revolt
By Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
August 2012
http://jcpa.org/article/the-future-of-kurdistan-between-turkey-the-iraq-war-and-the-syrian-revolt/
http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Kurdistan-Neriah.pdf
3k)
Syrien, die Kurden und eine verkürzte Solidarität
Joachim Guilliard
- November 2018
https://jg-nachgetragen.blog/2018/11/10/syrien-die-kurden-und-eine-verkuerzte-solidaritaet/#more-602
3l)
„Eine Revolution adoptieren“
Wie die Bundesregierung die zivil-militärische Zusammenarbeit organisiert und dabei die Friedensbewegung lähmt.
Von Karin Leukefeld
Marxistische Blätter 6/2018: „Friedensfragen – Stand- und Streitpunkte“.
8.11.2018
https://amirmortasawi.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/leukefeld-1120181.pdf
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4a)
Why Baghdad’s Attempts to Mollify Protests Are Falling on Deaf Ears
Stratfor
October 11, 2019
4b)
Widespread Protests Point to Iraq’s Cycle of Social Crisis
By Maria Fantappie
International Crisis Group
October 10, 2019
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5)
Understanding Russia and the UAE’s Special Partnership
By Giorgio Cafiero
October 16, 2019
https://lobelog.com/understanding-russia-and-the-uaes-special-partnership/
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6a)
Trying to Exploit Iran’s Diverse Ethnic Population to Advance a War Agenda
By Muhammad Sahimi
October 16, 2019
https://lobelog.com/trying-to-exploit-irans-diverse-ethnic-population-to-advance-a-war-agenda/
6b)
One on One: Exclusive interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Mohamad Javad Zarif
Alican Ayanlar sits down with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss relations with Saudi Arabia, tensions with the US and the nuclear deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ZQblF0zHc
6c)
FM Zarif’s Note in FINANCIAL TIMES
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s Note published in the Financial Times.
October 10, 2019
https://en.mfa.ir/portal/NewsView/544125
“[…] We must build consensus at various levels about the parameters of the Hormuz peace endeavour, and then collectively launch and implement it. So Iran proposes setting up meetings of experts, think-tanks, the private sector, senior officials, ministers and heads of state to deliberate on common objectives.
These meetings can help articulate a collective approach to opportunities and challenges such as energy security and freedom of navigation for all. We must also promote arms control and security building measures, the establishment of a zone that is free of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the prevention and resolution of regional conflicts. We can begin with — or work towards — the signing of a Hormuz Community Non-Intervention and Non-Aggression Pact.[…]”
6d)
Iran hails efforts to mediate talks with Saudis ahead of Imran Khan visit
October 12, 2019
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/10/12/608454/Iran-Zarif-TRT-peace-Saudi-Arabia-HOPE-pakistan
6e)
Iran to Respond to Oil Tanker Attack: Top Security Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani warned the parties behind a recent attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea that they will be given a response that would make them regret the move.
October, 16, 2019
Amir Mortasawi (alias Afsane Bahar) (امیر مرتضوی (افسانه بهار 