Iraq
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Iraq News Links 16-17 June 2014
17 June 2014 20:00:47 — williambowles.info Iraq needs a new team at the top: Column USA TODAY Over the past few days, the rebel onslaught in Iraq has slowed. It was predictable that Baghdad and surrounding cities, populated by a majority of … Iraq Forces Fight Militants as Maliki Says Army Gains Ground June 16 (Bloomberg) — Ian Bremmer, president and… Continue reading
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Debating Iraq in 2014: Wrong All Over Again By Peter Hart
The crisis in Iraq has brought war back to the US airwaves. But if you were expecting a more robust discussion about US military action this time around, think again. The rule seems to be that if you were wrong in 2003, you’re still an expert in 2014. Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 15-16 June 2014
16 June 2014 20:50:45 — williambowles.info Obama and the Iraqi Gordian Knot (The Greanville Post) Why Does NATO Still Exist? (Washingtons Blog) Chelsea Manning issues dire warning about Iraq (RT) Continue reading
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Media Lens: Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Over the weekend, the British media was awash with the blood-splattered Tony Blair’s self-serving attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. The coverage was sparked by a new essay in which Blair claimed that the chaos in Iraq was the ‘predictable and malign effect’ of the West having ‘watched Syria descend into… Continue reading
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Iraq News LInks 14-15 June 2014
15 June 2014 20:04:53 — williambowles.info US, UK create joint team to prepare for air strikes in Iraq – report (RT) How Obama Lost Iraq and the War on Terror (Global Research) 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
The conflict is casually described as “sectarian warfare” between Radical Sunni and Shia without addressing “who is behind the various factions”. What is at stake is a carefully staged US military-intelligence agenda. Known and documented, Al Qaeda affiliated entities have been used by US-NATO in numerous conflicts as “intelligence assets” since the heyday of the… Continue reading
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Iraq Newslinks 13-14 June 2014
14 June 2014 20:08:10 — williambowles.info Washington’s Iraq “Victory” (Global Research) Pentagon deploys aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf in case of Iraq op (RT) The Debacle in Iraq (Global Research) Continue reading
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America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq By Tony Cartalucci
Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United States was sure to prop… Continue reading
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Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war By Bill Van Auken
After overrunning Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city with a population of roughly 2 million, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a Sunni militia that is an offshoot of Al Qaeda, has continued its offensive, taking Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and a number of other towns in the Tigris… Continue reading
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Iraq Newslinks 13 June 2014
13 June 2014 20:55:10 — williambowles.info IEIL: Iraq turns to U.S. for help (Voltaire Net) The U.S. Mainstream Media’s One-Sided View of the Iraq War: “Iraq Is a Place Where Americans Suffered” (FAIR Blog) IEIL: Samantha Power in Ankara (Voltaire Net) Continue reading
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How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict By Tyler Durden
It is unknown how many of these [weapons] have fallen into Al Qaeda/ISIS hands (we do know that at least one Iraqi Black Hawk chopper was captured during the rush for Mosul). What is known is that as PBS Frontline reported two weeks ago, while the administration has denied arming Syrian “rebels”, i.e. the same… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 12-13 June 2014
13 June 2014 — williambowles.info America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq (Global Research) Iraq cleric issues Shia call to arms (BBC) Civil war and black reaction in Iraq: a Frankenstein’s monster of imperialism raises its head (Socialist.net) Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 11 June 2014
11 June 2014 19:30:25 — williambowles.info Iraq: The Civil War Restarted (Moon of Alabama) Iraqi insurgents ‘seize new city’ (BBC) Iran offers Iraq support against terrorism (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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US-NATO “Water War” against Syria: Turkey Suspends Pumping Euphrates’ Water By Suhaib Anjarini
The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis. Al-Akhbar found out that the water level in Lake Assad has dropped by about six meters, leaving millions of Syrians without drinking water. Continue reading
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UK Chilcot Inquiry: cover-up continues over war against Iraq By Robert Stevens
The most critical documents regarding the preparation and instigation of the illegal war against Iraq will never be seen by the Chilcot Inquiry. The Inquiry was authorised by the previous Labour government, fully five years ago. It is now 11 years since the invasion of Iraq. Continue reading
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UK referred to International Criminal Court for war crimes in Iraq By Jean Shaoul
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has accepted the complaint lodged in January alleging that UK military personnel committed war crimes against Iraqis in their custody between 2003 and 2008. She has ordered a preliminary investigation. Continue reading
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British Government Coverup and Whitewash of Iraq War Crimes: The Chilcot Inquiry By Felicity Arbuthnot
Amidst howls of “whitewash” from media commentators and interested observers of all political hues, it seems the findings of the Chilcot Inquiry in to the Iraq war are finally to be published by the end of this year. Continue reading
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Bush’s Anti-Terror Chief: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Can Be Tried at the Hague for War Crimes They Committed In Iraq
Bush’s top counter-terrorism official for his first year as president – Richard Clarke – tells Democracy Now that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld committed war crimes in Iraq … and that they can be tried at the Hague Continue reading
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Iraq: the Biggest Petroleum Heist in History? By Mike Whitney
Hooray. Big oil wins again, and all it cost was a million or so Iraqis who got blown to bits in air raids or shot up at checkpoints, or beaten to death with a rubber hose at Abu Ghraib or any of the other democracy reeducation centers that dot the countryside. But, hey, look at… Continue reading
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Iraq Nation Destroyed, Oil Riches Confiscated. Surviving Iraqi Population Impoverished By Asad Ismi
Capitalism has inflicted war on most of humanity for centuries to acquire the world’s resources and markets. The establishment of capitalism as a global economic system by European imperialists has killed more than a billion people, most of them in the Global South. Continue reading
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