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Syria’s solution has always been in Damascus
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a new reconciliation process in Syria, with a pivot away from Washington, asks MARCEL CARTIER
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
CEMIL BAYIK, second-in-command in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has set off a firestorm in recent days.
After granting an interview to Lebanon’s al-Nahar newspaper, in which he spoke of the “close and warm” historical ties between the PKK and former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, as well as the “legitimate” demand of the Syrian government to expel foreign occupying forces, including the United States, a paradigm shift has occurred in north-east Syria.
Responding to Bayik’s comments, Aldar Khalil, a leader in the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has said: “The solution must be with the regime, but not in Geneva but in Damascus. What is wrong with us sitting and deliberating as Syrians and proposing possible solutions to reach a formula for a solution to all issues in Syria?”
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