Macron’s bid to look strong on Syria could weaken him in France | Pauline Bock
The Guardian4 days agoSome 77% of the French people were against a war against Saddam Hussein’s regime. In a TV address, Chirac declared that “war is a sign of failure”. To this day, Iraq remains the ...
Home for a hero: Wounded Army sergeant gets surprise of a lifetime
Daytona Beach News-Journal2 days agoSteven Pyle had a brush with death in Mosul, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. “I can’t conceive any words that are good enough to express my thanks and gratitude,” Pyle said from ...
Attacking Syria: Thumbing Noses at Constitution and Law
consortiumnews.com7 days agoAs was the case 15 years ago when the U.S. and UK launched a war of aggression against Iraq, the pretext was so-called “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) — this time the claimed use ...
The OPCW: ridding the world of chemical weapons
AFP via Yahoo News5 days agoChemical weapons, such as mustard gas, were first used on the battlefields of World War I and also in 1988 by late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against civilians in Halabja, Iraq ...
My Kurdish Oppressor
New York Review of Books4 days agoLater, he told us that he had been detained for over seven hours by the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Ba’ath Party’s notorious security apparatus under the country’s then-dictator Saddam Hussein ...
Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Russia Over Support for Syria
New York Times5 days agoTrump and even some longtime detractors praised him for taking action against the use of chemical weapons without escalating so much that it might draw the United States deeper into Syria’s ...
Opinion: Trump pardoned Libby to save himself
The Record2 days agoThe CIA had asked Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, to investigate a British report that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was seeking to procure uranium in Africa ...
If you think Jeremy Corbyn is a man of principle for opposing air strikes on Syria, you need a history lesson
The Independent via Yahoo News5 days agoNothing Theresa May has said about the decision she took has indicated, or even thinly suggested, that she or any of our allies have intervened to change the regime in Syria, or ...
The Syrian War Is Actually Many Wars
The Atlantic Wire (RSS)7 days ago“If you look at the literature on civil wars, it tends to suggest that the more foreign powers involved, the more difficult it is for a civil war to end—because most of those powers aren’t willing ...
‘Looming Tower’: Showrunner Dan Futterman Breaks Down ‘Shocking’ Finale (SPOILERS)
Variety via Yahoo News2 days agoDo you think “Looming Tower” is starting the conversations you wanted to start, or at least putting things out there that you wanted people to be thinking about?
