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Costs of War: The Amritsar Massacre

19 June 2019|Veterans for Peace UK|Aly Renwick

VfP member Aly Renwick describes the repression by British imperial forces that lead to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is a tale of empire, colonialism, and resistance.

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Leaked US documents reveal a warped vision of regime change in Syria

28 September 2018|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

Featured image via US military intelligence video

Leaked US documents have revealed Washington’s vision of regime change in Syria. And it’s not pretty. Planners never thought democratic opponents to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad stood a chance, according to a 2011 US military intelligence assessment. The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Intelligence Department and private intelligence firm Stratfor jointly produced this August 2011 assessment. Journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discovered this document among a trove of leaked emails published by WikiLeaks.

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