Robert Navan, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/robert-navan/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:21:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Robert Navan, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/robert-navan/ 32 32 49333625 How to make a monster. Imperialism and the Islamic ‘State’. https://bsnews.info/how-to-make-a-monster-imperialism-and-the-islamic-state/ https://bsnews.info/how-to-make-a-monster-imperialism-and-the-islamic-state/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:21:14 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=13244 Once again in the history of American intervention we have the spectacle of the creators being threatened by their own creation. It’s not that long ago that the mujahideen, who benefited from American financial and military support during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, later turned on the West in the form of Al-Qa‘ida. Yesterday’s “freedom fighters” have become today’s “terrorists.”

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