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They survived a chemical weapons massacre, but Halabja’s victims still suffer its poisonous legacy
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe wards in Halabja’s only hospital overflowed with patients in the days after the attack, so the...
Howard Fineman, political correspondent with analytical eye, dies at 75
Washington Post· 2 days agoHoward Fineman, a Newsweek political correspondent and television commentator for decades who...
The pilgrimage sites of Iraq's timeless and holy cities
BBC News· 3 days agoTravellers to what was once was the spiritual centre of the world can learn about the region's long...
PROGRESS 2024: Veteran Spotlight – Tony Chard - Franklin County Times
The Franklin County Times· 11 hours agoTony Chard was 18 years old, approaching his graduation from Coffee High School in Florence and...
Iraq: Policing The Blood Lands
Strategy Page· 4 days agoApril 23, 2020: ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is still the greatest security threat and so far this year has killed 170 civilians and security personnel. A covid19 death can easily be mistaken for pneumonia.
Sorry, you can't play as Margaret Thatcher in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Eurogamer· 4 days agoThatcher in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Despite promising signs in the initial reveal trailer from...
When the C.I.A. Messes Up
The New Yorker· 4 days agoDiem may have been the “miracle man of Vietnam,” as Life called him, but he was a Catholic in a Buddhist country, and the things that helped him in Washington hurt him in Saigon. The C.I.A.’ ...
The South Park movie took on Tarzan and signaled the end of the Disney Renaissance
The A.V. Club· 2 days agoThe Simpsons reinvented the sitcom. Throughout the decade, the Walt Disney Company reasserted its...
Israel: The War With Iran
Strategy Page· 5 days agoMay 8, 2018: The Mossad operation in January that got half a ton of top-secret Iranian nuclear weapons program documents out of Iran and back to Israel in less than 24 hours has provided Iranian ...
The Menace of Political Show Trials
Ludwig von Mises Institute· 7 days agoIn recent days, we have had brought home to us what “show trials” are like. Political opponents of Donald Trump charged him with felonies for acts that...