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Interview: Gilbert Achcar on the Russian military operation in Syria

Post author By Ilya Budraitskis
Post date October 15, 2015
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Ilya Budraitskis: It has been several days since the start of the Russian military operation in Syria and the goals and strategy of this operation are still unclear. The explanation coming from Russian officials is unclear. On one hand they put an anti-ISIS agenda as the main reason of the operation, and on the other […]

Tags Cold War, crisis, destruction, East, EU, geopolitics, Iran, ISIS, Libya, militarism, military intervention, Obama, Putin, Russia, Syria, USA, war, West

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“We need to support forms of liberation struggle unconditionally”. An interview on Syria with Joseph Daher.

Post author By Mattia Gallo
Post date October 15, 2014
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Note from the LeftEast editors: The following interview was conducted with the Syrian revolutionary Joseph Daher by Italian journalist and activist Mattia Gallo. It provides an important perspective on the current Western intervention in Iraq and Syria that has been excluded from much of the mainstream media reporting of this conflict. We acknowledge that the […]

Tags Arab spring, Assad, left, military intervention, Russia, Syria, USA, war