When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]
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New Iraqi Law on Baath Worries Ex-Baathists
So the big political news today is that the Iraqi parliament on Saturday finally passed a revision of the “De-baathification” law issued by US viceroy […]
Yamli Arabic software
My readers sometimes ask me about Arabic software tools for the web. I just wanted to flag for them Yamli.com, which I’m finding a real […]
4 Killed in Baghdad Bombing Turks attack Kurds inside Iraq Again
PM Nuri al-Maliki called for widened political participation. He appears to be working on a compromise that might bring the parties of Iyad Allawi and […]
US Video of Iran Speedboats Doctored; Iranians Charge Fabrication
The Bush administration’s assertion that 5 small Iranian boats confronted big, well-armed US ships in the Straits of Hormuz and threatened to blow up the […]
9 US Troops Killed; 250,000 Civilians Dead in Bush’s War?
Sunni Arab guerrillas have killed 9 US soldiers in the past two days. They killed 6 and wounded 4 with a bomb in a booby-trapped […]
McCain Republicans’ anti-War Candidate; Sunnis Fear Return of Baghdad Violence;
In the US, here is an irony. John McCain, “Mr. Surge,” who dreams of a century-long US occupation of Iraq, was the anti-war candidate for […]
OSC: Pakistani Papers React to NYT Story on Expansion of CIA Activities
The USG Open Source Center provides translated excerpts from Pakistani editorials reacting to Sunday’s New York Times story on discussions by VP Dick Cheney with […]
24 Dead in Sunni Counter-Attacks; Major Refinery in Flames
In a further sign of a determined new year’s counter-attack by the radical Salafis and/or neo-Baathists, a wave of bombings and kidnappings swept Iraq on […]
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Tracking Poll: Big "Mo-bama" Grabs Dems in Granite State; McCain Regains Lead Over Romney in GOP Battle
Zogby gave permission to reprint the below, just in: ‘ UTICA, New York—Democrat Barack Obamas dramatic post-Iowa momentum has come to full bloom in the […]
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