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Just finished reading Red Line, by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Joby Warrick. It was published in February 2021. Warrick tells the story of how, since the 1980s, the Assad regime in Syria built a massive chemical weapons...
by theaccidentalrabbi
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on Wed Sep 29, 2021 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Are these the times when even the Times promotes war?
Yesterday, 12/7/15, in ‘Obama Says of Terrorist Threat: 'We Will Overcome It,’ the NYT reported on Obama’s oval office speech.
You’d thi
by douglassmyth
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on Tue Dec 08, 2015 at 04:01 PM PST
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by Scott Anderson
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on Mon Dec 07, 2015 at 10:38 AM PST
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Our military used to think they were on football fields, on the ninth down… Now it's surgeons: battlefields are their operating rooms. They excise the cancer, i.e. the enemy.
But the world doesn'...
by douglassmyth
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on Thu Sep 25, 2014 at 05:23 PM PDT
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Our President has decided: given American foreign policy up to now, he couldn't have decided otherwise, because America Leads the Mideast…towards "order."
Oh, it could be worse. If McCain were ...
by douglassmyth
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on Thu Sep 11, 2014 at 09:36 AM PDT
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American interventions in the Mideast have been little short of disastrous: starting with the CIA coup in Iran in 1953, which led to the Islamic Revolution and the current Islamic state. Further, ...
by douglassmyth
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on Sun Sep 07, 2014 at 07:56 AM PDT
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Blowback. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, followed by 8 years of US occupation created a lot of resentment, especially among Sunnis who lost their long dominance of Iraq to the Shiite majority. ...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Wed Aug 27, 2014 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Iraq more and more appears to be a three-ring circus, where it is hard to separate out the clowns from the lion-tamer. You got the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Baghdad politics is for the clowns. ...
by ForeignPolicy
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on Wed Aug 13, 2014 at 02:30 PM PDT
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This is my attempt at a translation of this article about Saudi Arabia in the German ...
by lotlizard
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on Fri Mar 25, 2011 at 05:14 AM PDT
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Amidst all the recent talk about Iran's nuclear program and Israel's intentions towards Iran something potentially far more important has been developing between two worlds, the Arab and the Persian,
by Shane Hensinger
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on Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 05:07 PM PDT
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A war of words between the Egyptian government and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has escalated after Egypt's public prosecutor recently ordered 49 people held for plotting attacks on behalf of ...
by mosaicnews
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on Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 06:55 PM PDT
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In case you are looking for a break from domestic news and worrying about the economy, I got something else for you to worry about - it is becoming clearer with each day that Iraq has failed to ...
by Marcion
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on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 01:57 PM PDT
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You know, if John McCain and the rest of the GOP could manage to see past the end of their noses once in awhile, and not be so obsessed with putting profit over everything else -- including ...
by markthshark
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on Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 02:24 PM PDT
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We have the potential for a major problem in Iraq. As Shiites jockey for power, the most prestigious cleric in the country is sensing the value among the population of fighting the US-led occupation,
by dday
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on Thu May 22, 2008 at 09:25 PM PDT
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There are some items up on News Unfiltered that may interest the community.
Pelosi pushes for resolution in support of Tibet:
Speaker ...
by News Unfiltered
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on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 12:54 PM PDT
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The Village, via Cokie Roberts, gives their very serious assessment of Iraq on ABC's This Week:
by dday
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on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 05:57 PM PDT
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As many of you have, I’ve become somewhat of a keen observer of the ongoing occupation in Iraq over the past 5 years. If your travails have even remotely resembled my own during the course ...
by markthshark
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on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 05:47 AM PDT
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Who is the Iraqi Army? That seems like a strange question. What do I mean?
The Bush administration claims the Iraqi Army is a unified force of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds who fight together for the ...
by Cenk Uygur
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on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 07:39 AM PDT
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Sorry to butt in, especially with a post that includes the words "Obama" or "Clinton" only in passing.
Thought you should know that the Mahdi Army cease-fire ...
by dday
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on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 03:41 PM PDT
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Note: This subject was broached on Wednesday here . I thought I’d expound a bit.
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by markthshark
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on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 05:09 AM PDT
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