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How Saudi Arabia supported Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon

Tamara Nassar Power Suits 25 February 2019. Electronic Intifada. Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, was key in facilitating covert relations between Gulf states and Israel in the early 2000s. Secret ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia accelerated in 2003, when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked longtime Mossad chief Meir Dagan to reexamine relations with neighboring Gulf states, according to …

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Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together

By Richard Greeman Global Research,  On Tuesday, February 5, as the government of Emmanuel Macron pushed harsh repressive laws against demonstrators through the National Assembly, the Yellow Vests joined with France’s unions for the first time in a day-long, nation-wide “General Strike.” At the very moment when in Paris the …

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US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart

This article was originally published in 2016. Americans have been trained by decades of Cold War propaganda to look for any confirmation that ‘socialism means poverty.’ But in the case of Venezuela and other states not governed by the free market, this cliche simply doesn’t ring true. *** The political …

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