Just Another Spring in Progress?

Just Another Spring in Progress?

APRIL 24, 2019, Counterpunch.org My corner of New York’s Catskill Mountains is shortly due to explode in green. Today however, it’s brown, beige, russet and…

A Risky Referendum for Kurdistan Underway in Iraq

A Risky Referendum for Kurdistan Underway in Iraq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017, Globalresearch.ca. The referendum is opposed by neighboring powers, but most significantly by the central government in Baghdad. It is a far more…

Women as Pawns in the Political War Game

Women as Pawns in the Political War Game

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017, Globalresearch.ca. The referendum is opposed by neighboring powers, but most significantly by the central government in Baghdad. It is a far more…

Who, What and Where are Iraq’s Turkmen?

Who, What and Where are Iraq’s Turkmen?

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014, Counterpunch.org. Know your Yazidi. An anthropological sketch will assure support for US and Peshmarga military advances across Iraq, and sequester a competing…

Demolishing More Than Just Palestinian Homes

Demolishing More Than Just Palestinian Homes

APRIL, 1996, Christian Science Monitor It’s quite a spectacle, a Palestinian home being blown apart. Furniture, dishes, and clothes, hastily removed, are deposited helter-skelter in…

‘The Neighbors Are Talking:’ Despite past differences, Syria and Iraq are teaming up again

‘The Neighbors Are Talking:’ Despite past differences, Syria and Iraq are teaming up again

AUGUST 1997,  Toward Freedom. What nobody in the US—no journalist or academic or politician wanted to talk about, has actually happened. Syria and Iraq have…