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A transport truck is seen leaving from the main gate at the Lafarge cement plant facility on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, in Ravena, New York
FRENCH cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group in Syria.
The payments to the group were made to keep a plant in Syria open at a time when IS were routinely kidnapping and torturing Westerners.
The US Justice Department, which brought the case, accused the company of turning a blind eye to the conduct of the IS, and negotiating a revenue-sharing agreement with the militant group as it was acquiring new territory and as Syria was mired in a brutal civil war.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
