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History As It Happens: Saddam and the CIA
The Washington Times· 6 days agoThe immediate aftermath of the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, may seem like the right place to start when telling the story of why the...
Iran's allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. What if they draw blood?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThough the attacks, often from hundreds of miles (kms) away, are not seen by western officials and...
New Call Of Duty Game Challenges 'Truth' In Global 'Lies' Campaign
MediaPost· 6 days agoCreated by 72andSunny, "The Truth Lies" promotes the launch of the newest Black Ops game.
Counter-Terrorism: Industrial Decapitation In Action
Strategy Page· 3 days agoJanuary 22, 2018: To those familiar with Arab military history the discovery of so many ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) weapon and ammunition manufacturing operations ...
Iran: Victories And Deceits
Strategy Page· 2 days agoOctober 31, 2019: While the current unrest in Iraq is mainly about corruption, there is also an anti-Iran undertone. The Iranians have taken advantage of the many corrupt government officials ...
‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoDuring my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with family ...
‘I took an oath to do no harm’: The two doctors wrestling over Fauci’s legacy
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBrad Wenstrup was alarmed. It was February 2020, weeks before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered...
The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Magazine· 6 days agoWhen we arrived at the gates of Iraq’s Bardarash refugee camp in December 2019, the emotional pain of the scene leveled me: Cold, wind-swept rain fell as...
The Twenty-First Century Executive Branch Is a Criminogenic Environment | naked capitalism
Naked Capitalism· 7 days agoAlexander Hamilton's "energy in the Executive" has a downside.
PODCAST | The President's Inbox: U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Foreign Relations· 5 days agoSteven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at CFR, sits...