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After the fall: Hope amid the ruins of post-Assad Syria

Kevin B. Anderson — A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned.
Illustration by Shehzil Malik

Geopolitics of genocide: An interview with Rafeef Ziadah

Rafeef Ziadah — The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world shaped by imperial ambitions and the strategic exploitation of resources.
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‘We have witnessed the final nail in the coffin of Western liberal pretence’: An interview with Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar discusses the fall of the al-Assad dynasty in Syria, its implications on the Palestinians’ struggle and the hypocrisy of Western powers.
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Two myths about the Gaza ceasefire

Gilbert Achcar — There are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire.
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The Palestinian Authority and the completion of the siege

Gilbert Achcar — Since the completion of the first year of the ongoing Zionist genocidal war on Gaza, a shameful scene has been taking place before our eyes in the West Bank.
Air bases, weapons and defense systems, and intelligence and military buildings belonging to the former Syrian regime being destroyed.

Israel’s massive attack on free Syria: Background and motivations

Michael Karadjis — From the moment the Assad regime collapsed and the rebels entered Damascus, Israel’s massive land and air attack began.
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Disaster nationalism is the new fascism

Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.
Supporters of incumbent Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi celebrate in Cairo after his most recent landslide electoral victory, 18 December 2023.

Egypt: Sisi’s weakness makes him more brutal

Robert Springborg on how the Egyptian dictator secures his violent rule.
Celebration in Damascus

Syria’s popular revolution and the extraordinary collapse of Assad’s genocidal regime

Michael Karadjis — There will be many struggles ahead, but for now Syrians are celebrating one of the most decisive and popular revolutions ever.
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The collapse of the Assad regime: An interview on Syria with Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar explains the sudden collapse of the Syrian regime.
Douma, Syria

Syria after Assad: Hope and uncertainty

Bulent Gokay & Vassilis K. Fouskas — Amid the significant and rapid transformation unfolding in Syria, two sub-imperial powers, Israel and Turkey, are seeking to redesign the region.
Members of the Syrian community in Istanbul hold up a banner of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as they celebrate the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad this week

Erdoğan’s Syria?

Cihan Tuğal — Though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, fantasies about a Turkish imperial restructuring of the region are unfounded.