By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – It took 14 years, but now we have an answer. It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General David Petraeus was in command of the 101st Airborne Division heading for the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Rick Atkinson, Washington Post journalist and military […]
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Archives for 2017
3 ways Trump’s nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran’s Mood
By Nancy Gallagher | (The Conversation) | – – U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to tell Congress that the 2015 nuclear deal the Obama administration reached with Iran and five other world powers still serves U.S. national interests. This refusal, or decertification, went against top officials in his own government and the International Atomic […]
No, It Wasn’t Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia adjuncts have taken Kirkuk city and raised the Iraqi flag over the state house, taking down the Kurdistan flag. They also have an army base and oil fields in Kirkuk province, which they are returning to the control of […]
France’s Macron slams Trump ‘Bad Policy’ by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade
TeleSur Macron’s visit to Iran would be the first by a French head of state or government since 1976. Widening transatlantic divisions are coming into focus as traditional U.S. allies are recoiling at U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The divide was underscored Sunday as French President Emmanuel Macron […]
Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?
By Stephanie Lake | (The Conversation) | – – . . . The opioid overdose epidemic is . . . [the] gravest public health crisis since the emergence of HIV in the 1980s. With its roots in the over-prescription of high-potency painkillers, sparked by the contamination of the illicit drug supply with fentanyl and related […]
Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment
The World Bank | (Video News Report) | – – “Concentrating Solar Power, CSP, is huge in Morocco. Literally, it’s huge. Panels almost the size of tennis courts stretch across acres of desert at the 4 Noor plants in Ouarzazate, providing enough power to light up Marrakesh at night. Learn how it’s done, what it […]
Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash
By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when I spotted a video of another mother’s two children. The youngest was a one-year-old boy, the same age as my own youngest; the […]
In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces and Kurdish Peshmerga paramilitary personnel to the south of the city of Kirkuk. The report is sourced to Peshmerga officers who declined to have their names used. For their part, […]
Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)
TeleSur | – – “In our 10-year experience as first responders in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service posted on Twitter. Somali officials say the death toll from Saturday’s truck bombing in Mogadishu has risen to 276, with another 300 people injured. Medical personnel in the Somali capital have described […]
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