09-20-2009 • Gateway Pundit
Now Brzezinski, who advises Obama on foreign policy, is calling for the US to shoot down Israeli jets. Brzezinski is known to be anti-Israel.
The Weekly Standard Blog reported:
In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don’t read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew [...]
Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Contractor deaths are rarely reported
by Bernd Debusmann Reuters – 2009-09-10
WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – By most counts, the death toll of U.S. soldiers in America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stood at 5,157 in the second week of September. Add at least 1,360 private [...]
Archbishop Tutu: “Arabs paying the price of Germany’s crimes”
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
August 28, 2009
In an Interview with Haaretz newspaper, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that Israel must learn from the Holocaust that it cannot gain security thought fences, walls and guns.
Archbishop Tutu was commenting of statement made [...]
Babylon’s Ancient Wonder, Lying in Ruins
History Not Served By U.S. Presence
By Nada Bakri
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
HILLA, Iraq — Maytham Hamzah cast his eyes toward the remains of King Nebuchadnezzar’s guest palace in Babylon, one of the world’s first great cities. He smiled, bitterly.
“They destroyed the whole country,” Hamzah, the head of [...]
Patrick Cockburn
Counterpunch
Friday, June 19, 2009
Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government’s plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and oil revenues.
In less than two weeks time, on June 29 and 30, the Iraqi Oil minister Hussain Shahristani [...]
Iraq�s refugees; the region�s largest displacement crisis goes on
World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office
June 20, 2009
Some 2 million Iraqi refugees across the Middle East will spend a fifth World Refugee Day far from home and even further from any prospect of return or [...]
By Shaun Bauer
The Nation
Friday, Jun 5, 2009
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute, the Center for Investigative Reporting and New American Media.
Photo Courtesy of Shaun Bauer
The light is fading from the dusty Baghdad sky as Hassan Mahsan re-enacts what happened to his family last summer. We’re standing in the courtyard of [...]
According to French President Chirac, Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse:
In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy:
“And when [...]
And So It Goes …
by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
In Kut, southeast of Baghdad, a girl cries after her mother was killed in a US military raid. (Photo: AP)Last week found Iraq swimming in blood once again. Attacks last Thursday brought the worst violence Iraq has seen in [...]
5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”.
by Washington’s Blog
Global Research, April 22, 2009
Washington’s Bl
5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”.
He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not.”
And at 2:40 [...]
Instead of blanket-wiretapping Americans, maybe the Bush Administration’s intelligence agencies should have spent a little more time with Google Earth.
Until recently, Google Earth prominently displayed an image of a clandestine US airbase that housed unmanned Predator drones in Pakistan. An image appeared to show three drones outside a hangar at the end of a runway, [...]
We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush’s war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective. Of course, even by his standards — “stability” — the jury is out. Most independent analysts would [...]
Historically, some great powers have originated in the Middle East: The Persian Empire, the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Following the collapse of the latter as a result of World War One, no great power indigenous to the Middle East has emerged,
The aforementioned meant that, from that point onwards, outside powers became the most [...]
By Dave Lindorff
A new congressional report is belatedly confirming what many have long known: that the White House and in particular then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, lied to Congress in 2004 when he told them the Bush administration was not repeatedly warned by the CIA not to make the claim that Saddam had [...]
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Associated Press
Friday, December 19, 2008; A25
BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 — The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush is begging for a pardon for what he described as “an ugly act,” the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.
Muntadar al-Zaidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, could face imprisonment if [...]
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 27 mins ago
WASHINGTON – An internal State Department report says Blackwater Worldwide may lose its license to work in Iraq and recommends that the agency [...]
AP photo / Karim Kadim
A shoe is raised during a protest in Baghdad demanding the release of the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush on Sunday.
By Robert Scheer
They hate us for our shoes. Somewhere in what passes for the deeper regions of President Bush’s mind might come that reassuring giggle of a thought [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness.
A U.S. soldier wears protection against chemical weapons during the Gulf War in a February 1991 photo.
That illness is a condition now identified as the likely [...]
Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sergeant Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D’s senior medic and an acting squad leader, made sworn statements in [...]
BAGHDAD — The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 Iraqis at a new distribution station in eastern Baghdad, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go.
The dilemma was an example of the obstacles facing the Iraqis and their American backers as they try to rebuild the [...]
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