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Sophie Mangal: ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO

ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO   Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, Mark Toner, during a regular briefing on April 25 said that the U.S. expresses serious concern over Turkey’s aggression in Syria and Iraq. It should be mentioned that in the morning, April 25 the Turkish Air Force struck the positions of

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Qatar as Another Hotbed of Tension Between U.S. and Turkey

On Wednesday, June 7, the Turkish media wrote that Parliament voted to deploy 5,000 troops in the Turkish military base in Qatar – Ankara’s only base in the Middle East. Doha is believed to be Turkey’s traditional ally, and it would be surprising if the Turkish authorities pledged their support to Saudi Arabia and its U.S.-led partners. Ankara to confront

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Obsolescence of Brzezinski’s ideas?

FBReporter contributor Germán López Gorraiz (1957-) is a Spanish economical and geopolitical analyst who writes for several Spanish and Latino American journals such as ”Tribuna de Navarra”. He lives in Navarra, Spain.

Wright Mills in his book “The Power Elite” (1956), indicates that the key to understanding the American concern would be in the over-organization of their society. Thus, the establishment would be “the elite group formed by the union of the sub-elite political, military, economic, academic and U.S. mass media”, pressure lobbies that would be interconnected by “an uneasy alliance based

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Al-Jazeera & White Helmets stage fake ‘chemical attack’ – new details

Al-Jazeera & White Helmets stage fake ‘chemical attack’ – new details According to the information confirmed by several channels on May 1, aided by Al-Jazeera’s professional crew including cameraman Samir Samarin, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants and the so-called ‘White Helmets’ have recently filmed a staged, fake movie of an alleged chemical attack against civilians by the Syrian Army in Saraqeb

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Safe zones in Syria: Astana’s key to political settlement – by Sophie Mangal

Not so long ago the U.S. put up an initiative to create “no-fly zones” and “safe zones” in Syria while Turkey offered to set up refugee zones along the Syrian-Turkish border. However, there were concerns that Washington and Ankara may support the Syrian opposition under the pretext of a humanitarian operation.

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INVESTIGATION: Route of Bulgarian Weapon Deliveries to Syrian Islamists Exposed- by Sophie Mangal

The fact of Bulgarian weapons deliveries to terrorists is confirmed by the FSA deputy commander Col. Malik al-Kurdi. In an interview to the Trud newspaper, he claimed that “an HQ has been set up in Turkey and Jordan to ensure cooperation between the special services of 15 states. We warned the U.S. and the EU that the weapons delivered in

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G. G. LÓPEZ: The Arctic, the last frontier?

FBReporter contributor Germán López Gorraiz (1957-) is a Spanish economical and geopolitical analyst who writes for several Spanish and Latino American journals such as ”Tribuna de Navarra”. He lives in Navarra, Spain.

Vladimir Putin, in a press conference of the Ministry of Defense, announced the reopening of the military base located in Novosibirskie Ostrová, (archipelago of the Arctic Ocean), citing reasons of strategic security, since “the north of Russia is scarcely protected from possible attacks by both air and sea, “but behind this reasoning lies Russia’s interest in militarily controlling a route

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S. MANGAL: US-led Coalition Airstrike On Assad’s Forces in Syria Was Not Accidental

So, what’s the true reason of such aggressive actions of the US-led international coalition this time? A number of Syrian military analysts believe that the U.S. Air Force main task was to hamper Syrian pro-government forces and to slow down their further advance towards Deir ez-Zor rather than to ‘protect’ U.S. ‘partners’. Their actions are motivated by the fact that

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Sophie Mangal: ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO

Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, Mark Toner, during a regular briefing on April 25 said that the U.S. expresses serious concern over Turkey’s aggression in Syria and Iraq. It should be mentioned that in the morning, April 25 the Turkish Air Force struck the positions of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Karachok mountain region in

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