US Military Strikes Embarrass al-Maliki While he is in Tehran The US military took advantage of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s absence from the country to settle some scores with the Mahdi Army in Sadr City (East Baghad), attacking units there and mounting air strikes on them, killing 32 and wounding about a dozen. Local observers […]
Beeman To Nyt Hyping Iran Threat In
Beeman to NYT: Hyping Iran Threat in Times of Diplomacy William O. Beeman of the University of Minnesota shared with IC this letter to the editor of the New York Times: “From: William O. Beeman Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 3:22 PM To: letters@nytimes.com Subject: U.S. Says Bomb Suppled by Iran Kills Troops in Iraq To the […]
Pakistani Editor Tancredo Has Expressed
Pakistani Editor: ‘Tancredo has Expressed his Evil, inner Self’ At IC Global Affairs, the editors of major Pakistani newspapers reply to Tom Tancredo and Barack Obama. The issue came up again at the AFL-CIO debate in Chicago last night, with Obama being generally criticized by the other candidates not so much for the policy but […]
Al Maliki Declines Turkish Treaty On
Al-Maliki Declines Turkish Treaty on Terrorism Kurdistan Passes Oil Law Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been ambushed by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to Ankara, when Erdogan suddenly presented him with a thoroughgoing counter-terrorism treaty to sign, pledging the Iraqi government to go after the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), which […]
Bush Vs Zombies
Bush v. Zombies A satire on Bush administration fear-mongering. courtesy YouTube.
Usa Terrorism Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
US Deployment of Mass Terror: Hiroshima Not a shining moment. From YouTube.
Farhi On Afghanistan Iraq And Bush
Farhi on Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy At our Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi explains “Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy”. She points out that Bush said on Monday that Iran’s leaders had announced their intention to acquire a nuclear weapon, which is of course the opposite […]
Surge Of Phony Spin On Iraq Cole In
A Surge of Phony Spin on Iraq: Cole in Salon My column is out in Salon.com Tuesday: A surge of phony spin on Iraq Bush’s backers are peddling a sunny view of the president’s strategy — despite Iraq’s political chaos and soaring death counts. excerpts: ‘ The troop escalation was intended to calm down Baghdad […]
Napoleons Egypt And Page 99 Test
Napoleon’s Egypt and the Page 99 Test Marshal Zeringue’s Page 99 Test highlights my new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East. This book blog is premised on Ford Maddox Ford’s bon mot, “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” Also, at the […]
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