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America’s questionable drone wars

By Barbara Lochbihler The Daily Star, Lebanon “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936. His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic. Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or […]

Will Assad depart in the Yemeni manner?

TARIQ ALHOMAYED ARABNEWS Sunday 27 May 2012 The New York Times has revealed that US — Russian talks are taking place to implement the Yemeni solution in Syria, and this is in the hopes of securing Bashar Assad’s withdrawal from power along the lines of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh. The […]