Iraq
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The ISIL or DAISH Caliphate in Iraq and Syria is a US Project By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Press TV has conducted an interview with Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, author and geopolitical analyst from Montreal, about heavy clashes underway among foreign-backed insurgents in Syria and about the US government’s role in supporting them on June 30, 2014. Continue reading
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The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
First published by GR on June 14, 2014. Update July 1, 2014: The creation of the US sponsored Islamist Caliphate has been announced. The Islamic State of Iraq and Al Cham (ISIS) has been replaced by the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State is not an independent political entity. It is a construct of US… Continue reading
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Video: ‘US Fighting Alongside ISIS’: Direct American Role in Strengthening Jihadists?
Where does ISIS get the funding it needs to snatch power in the region? Even Washington has played its role in the rise of ISIS Continue reading
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Iraq News LInks 30 June – 1 July 2014
1 July 2014 15:31:21 — williambowles.info Iraq to receive 5-10 Russian Su-25 fighter-bombers by September (SCF) ‘Independent Kurdistan can hasten spread of jihad’ (RT) Iran: US Trying To Turn Iraq Into Second Ukraine (Stop NATO) Continue reading
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Iraqi Hydrocarbon Prize of U.S. Invasion in Danger? By Nicola Nasser
Excluding “boots on the ground” and leaving combat missions to local and regional “partners,” President Barak Obama and his administration say the United States keeps “all options on the table” to respond militarily to the terrorists’ threat to “American interests” in Iraq, which are now in “danger.” Similarly, former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on… Continue reading
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#Mintcasts: What the MSM won’t tell you about ISIS & greater plan to fragment Middle East
As the world’s eyes turn to Iraq, flabbergasted at the brutality and partial success of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, takeover of major Iraqi cities with the goal of building a so-called “Islamic state” under the banner of a Sunni awakening in Shiite-friendly nations like Iraq and Syria — both bordering… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 29-30 June 2014
30 June 2014 11:25:22 — williambowles.info Malaysia’s ‘Allah’ verdict & the rising far right (RT) Pax Syriana: neither vanquished, nor all-conquering (Open Democracy) Europeans fighting for Syrian and Iraq militants pose threat to US – Obama (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 28-29 June 2014
29 June 2014 18:42:09 — williambowles.info Will The New Caliphate Unite The Middle East Against It? (Moon of Alabama) The Lies That Lead to War (The Greanville Post) Reporters talk about Sykes-Picot of 1916 (and ignore the Balfour Declaration of 1917) (Mondoweiss) Continue reading
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Invading Iraq 2.0: ISIS Propaganda, Proxy Wars and US-NATO’s ‘Blitzkrieg’ By Shawn Helton
The Western-backed Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS, has made its way to Iraq through Turkey and over the northeastern border of Syria. This new terror campaign appears to have been rolled out with a decades old objective, which is wrought with violence, propaganda and destabilization funding from the usual sponsors… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 27-28 June 2014
28 June 2014 11:39:20 — williambowles.info Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the ‘multi-sided’ counterrevolution (Links) Pentagon confirms use of drones carrying bombs and missiles over Iraq (Voice of Russia) Blackwater mercenaries on trial in US court for 2007 Iraq massacre (WSWS) Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 26-27 June 2014
27 June 2014 20:47:12 — williambowles.info Moscow hopes military cooperation with Iraq will strengthen its defense capacity (SCF) Iraq battles for Tikrit while US drones fly over Baghdad (Voice of Russia) Armed US drones flying over Iraq (BBC) Continue reading
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Terror In Iraq: Roots And Motivation By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Terrorism*, directly or sponsored, has long been America’s weapon of mass destruction – its weapon of choice. As a strategy, it outdates ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy promotion’ and has proven itself to be far more effective by creating mayhem and fear, removing resistance to intervention. The events of 9/11 justified this age-old tactic. Although the… Continue reading
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The Chaos In Iraq Is By DESIGN
Neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz planned regime change in Iraq more than 20 years ago … in 1991. But the goal wasn’t just regime change (or oil). The goal was to break up the country, and to do away with the sovereignty of Iraq as a separate nation. Continue reading
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Recent report confirms: US depleted uranium weapons targeted civilian areas in Iraq war By Barry Mason
“Laid to Waste”, a report by the Dutch Catholic NGO Pax Christi International, confirms that US forces in Iraq used depleted uranium (DU) weapons in civilian areas during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. More than a decade later, DU is still harming people’s health. The impact of the use of DU in 2003 added to… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 24-26 June 2014
26 June 2014 19:36:45 — williambowles.info Iraq Shiite Leaders Hold Talks on Premier, as Support for Maliki Slips New York Times Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki dismissed the idea of a national salvation government and asked Iraq’s political blocs to close ranks in the wake of … Continue reading
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The ISIS in Iraq Stinks of the CIA/NATO ‘Dirty War’ Operation By William Engdahl
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 curious acronym ISIS. Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military ‘surge’ in Iraq – and less… Continue reading
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US Embassy in Ankara: The Headquarter for the ISIS War on Iraq – Hariri Insider By Christof Lehmann
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… Continue reading
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BLOWBACK IN IRAQ: The Rise of ISIS By Michael Faulkner
It is now more than eleven years since the unprovoked invasion of Iraq by the USA and Britain. Because those who planned and prosecuted that invasion, and those who supported them, continue to defend what they did with contorted and specious arguments, it is worth recalling the attempted justifications for it that were made at… Continue reading
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Democracy and the debacle in Iraq By Joseph Kishore
Over the past two weeks, the Obama administration and the foreign policy establishment in the United States have moved rapidly to exploit the crisis in Iraq to intensify military operations throughout the Middle East. Hundreds of US military “advisors” are on their way back to Iraq even as the American ruling class plans air strikes… Continue reading
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