In Mosul, a perfect storm gathered last week, produced by decades of American adventurism in the ‘greater Middle East’. The American wars, including the ‘War on Terror’, were cat-and-mouse games that did not produce a…
Tag: Iraq
Who is Responsible for the Catastrophes in the Middle East? “The United States of America is not responsible for what happened in Libya, nor is it responsible for what is happening in Iraq…
Contractors of the US private security firm Blackwater secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in central Baghdad, July Washington (AFP) – The top manager in Iraq of the notorious private security firm Blackwater…
your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.—1 Samuel 12:17 If ISIL were happy with the boundaries it controlled upon its declaration of the…
Fear and loathing at Hotel Babylon So now a huge Hardcore Sunnistan stretches all the way from the suburbs of Aleppo to Tikrit and from Mosul to the Jordanian/Iraqi border – the same one that…
Following the incursion of jihadist rebels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) into Iraq and the capture of its second largest city Mosul, American and Iranian officials meeting behind closed in…
Introduction There are two major beneficiaries of the two major wars launched by the US government: one domestic and one foreign. The three major domestic arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon…
For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with…
The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey, in November 2013, told a source close to Saudi – Lebanese billionaire Saad Hariri, adding that the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is the operation’s headquarter. A “trusted source” close to the Saudi – Lebanese multi-billionaire and former Lebanese P.M. Saad Hariri told on condition of anonymity, that the final green light for the war on Iraq with ISIS or ISIL brigades was given behind closed doors, at the sidelines of the Atlantic Council’s Energy Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 22 – 23, 2013.
Refugees, internally displaced persons higher today than any time since World War II June 20 is World Refugee Day and this year a report was issued revealing that the number of displaced persons has reached…