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What Trump is Doing in the Middle East While You are Distracted by COVID-19 by ROBERT FISK
And still the virus shrouds�Donald Trump�s mischief in the�Middle East. First it was his sly retreat from�Iraq; now it�s his cosy military exercises with the�United Arab Emirates�� famous in song and legend as a former Saudi ally in the bloody … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Saudi Arabia
Tagged iran, iraq, usa
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End Times for the Caliphate? by PATRICK COCKBURN
The war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised internationally, are stronger militarily and … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Ideaology, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, Turkey
Tagged isil, isis, turkey
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Wars for Resources? by JOHN FOSTER
Recent conflicts in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine have ostensibly been about “bad guys” who threatened peace with weapons of one kind or another, or stifled freedom and democracy. Whatever the accusation, concerns about petroleum — oil and gas — … Continue reading
Iraq on the Brink of a Ferocious Religious War by PATRICK COCKBURN
The meltdown of American and British policy in Iraq and Syria attracts surprisingly little criticism at home. Their aim for the past three years has been get rid of Bashar al-Assad as ruler of Syria and stabilise Iraq under the … Continue reading
Posted in Ideaology, Iraq, Syria
Tagged colonialism, imperialism, iraq, isis, shia, sunni
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Who is the Jihadi Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? – Patrick Cockburn
In the space of a year he has become the most powerful jihadi leader in the world, and on Monday night his forces captured Mosul, the northern capital of Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu Dua, the leader … Continue reading
Iraq: the Biggest Petroleum Heist in History? – Mike Whitney
“Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq’s oil market. But thanks to the invasion and occupation, the companies are now back inside Iraq and … Continue reading
American Hypocrisy on International Law – Curtis Doebbler
The threat of Russian intervention in Ukraine has caused American lawyers and diplomats to raise their voices about the legality of Russian military action in Ukraine. These complaints, however, are based more on political rhetoric and posturing than on an … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Ideaology, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine
Tagged Afghanistan, international law, iraq, syria, ukraine
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U.S. Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11 – RAND Corp.
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The Myth of the Surge – Mike Whitney
How Bush Used PR to Conceal Massive Ethnic Cleansing in Baghdad “I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.” – President Barack Obama One of the enduring myths of the … Continue reading
Robert Fisk: The shaming of America – Robert Fisk
As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims.
Only we could pretend we did not know. Only we in the West could counter every claim, every allegation against the Americans or British with some worthy general – the ghastly US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt and the awful chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Peter Pace, come to mind – to ring-fence us with lies. Find a man who’d been tortured and you’d be told it was terrorist propaganda; discover a house full of children killed by an American air strike and that, too, would be terrorist propaganda, or “collateral damage”, or a simple phrase: “We have nothing on that.” Continue reading
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