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THERE IS NO PLAN B: The study that governments are following which could see 18 months of coronavirus hell

March 19, 2020by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

Donald Rumsfeld would have been a reliable health czar during this coronavirus crisis. His “unknown knowns” and “known unknowns” serve us well now. The tautological “we don’t know what we […]

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Syria withdrawal, Baghdadi and a momentous October: Seth J. Frantzman looks at the Middle East

November 4, 2019by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

The month of October were momentous for the Middle East, with the US withdrawal from Syria, Turkey’s invasion and protests in Iraq. Rising Israel-Iran tensions are also on the map. […]

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The Khashoggi affair: The art of the leak

October 23, 2018by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nick Paton Walsh articulated it well: “The role [Turkey has] taken is not that of the virtuous prosecutor, but of the exploitative politician,” he wrote on […]

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The Farrakhan elephant in the room at Aretha Franklin’s funeral

September 2, 2018by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN What was far-right religious leader Louis Farrakhan doing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral? The Forward asked this question, but most major media has sought to not discuss the […]

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The June 18 airstrike on Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah in Syria has been blamed on Israel, here’s how it unfolded

June 20, 2018by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

Breaking: Mystery surrounds overnight airstrikes on pro-Syrian regime fighters June 18, 0800 hours Jerusalem time After Syrian regime blamed US and US denied the attacks, questions remain over who carried […]

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Western privilege and the interviews of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ in Syria

April 9, 2018by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The SDF in Syria seem to be holding a circus for journalists to come and profile the ISIS ‘Beatles.’ One after another the detainees have been […]

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Journalism, privilege, and victim narratives

July 5, 2017by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A lot of people have read Jared Yates Sexton’s tweets about getting death threats after he outed a Reddit user who made a gif about Trump […]

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When western media calls Syria war confusing “free for all” it’s a form of racism

May 16, 2017by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was reading a major US media outlet about Turkey’s president visiting Washington and there was a link to the “free for all” in Syria. “The […]

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Five faces of the Trump election and the origins of political dysfunction

November 9, 2016by Seth Frantzman 1 Comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Racist. Bigot. Ignorant. Sexist. Homophobic. Islamophobic. Angry. White. Men. If you’re going to insult people repeatedly, and you are running an election against them, you’d better […]

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American media created “Ken Bone”, then tore him down in its populist, puritanical bizarre fashion

October 15, 2016by Seth Frantzman Leave a comment

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “America needed a hero, Kenneth Bone answered the call,” claimed The Washington Post on October 10 just after the US Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald […]

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