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Why the US is to blame for Iraq’s nightmare - Socialist Worker Online

Socialist Worker Online, IL - 35 minutes ago … a new oil law–which is in fact a debt-for-oil program concocted and imposed by the International Monetary Fund,” reports Asia Times commentator Pepe Escobar

Why the US is to blame for Iraq’s nightmare - Socialist Worker Online


Why the US is to blame for Iraq’s nightmare
Socialist Worker Online, IL - 23 hours ago
... oil law--which is in fact a debt-for-oil program concocted and imposed by the International Monetary Fund,” reports Asia Times commentator Pepe Escobar. ...

Heading for that Saigon moment

Pepe Escobar at Asia Times has sources where the mainstream media fear to tread, and he writes:. The next big step for the Sunni Arab resistance - according to sheikhs of the powerful Shammar Sunni tribe - would be to take out the Badr ...

The Fall of The Green Zone - Bury my heart in the Green Zone By

By Pepe Escobar. "We are in dire need of Iran's help in establishing security and stability in Iraq."- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, November 27, in Tehran. 11/28/06 "Asia Times" -- --- As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of ...

Bury my heart in the Green Zone By Pepe Escobar, …

Bury my heart in the Green Zone By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, November 29, 2006 As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), every single day, Sunni and Shi'ite alike, continue to be beheaded, tortured, blown up, ...

hmmm… No.

Last month I linked to a Pepe Escobar Asia Times article in The Battle for Baghdad… Escobar is back and it is hard to pick an excerpt, here is the concluding segment:. The fall of the Green Zone Everyone is guilty in the ongoing Iraq ...

The "Shadow (Long) War," NATO Conference

Against the backdrop of the NATO conference, an article by Pepe Escobar regarding Iraq, "Bury My Heart in the Green Zone," www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK29Ak01.html Meanwhile, as I had forecast, some may have noticed, the American ...

Bury my heart in the Green Zone

Pepe Escobar As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), every single day, Sunni and Shi'ite alike, continue to be beheaded, tortured, blown up, shot, kidnapped, struck by mortars and even doused in gasoline and set ...

Bury My Heart In The Green Zone

From The Asia Times By Pepe Escobar We are in dire need of Iran’s help in establishing security and stability in Iraq. [...]

Bury my heart in the Green Zone

By Pepe Escobar Asia Times "..every big player seems to be laying down a desperate game to "save" Iraq. This includes the ongoing summit between Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and his Iranian counterpart Mahmud Ahmadinejad in Iran and ...

Cheney not leaving just yet

Think Progress » CQ Analyst Suggests ‘Rumsfeld’s Leaving Is Just The Beginning,’ Cheney Might Be Next

Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Congressional Quarterly political analyst Craig Crawford speculated that, as “neocons are heading for the hills,” Dick Cheney may be the next to leave the administration. He claimed the Vice President’s “authority is waning, if not gone.” “And my point is why would he want to stick around in this environment?” he asked. “All I’m seeing is a man getting isolated more and more.”

If you read the full transcript below, Chris Matthews rightly suggests that Crawford is an idiot.

Bury my heart in the Green Zone

By Pepe Escobar We are in dire need of Iran’s help in establishing security and stability in Iraq. - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, November 27, in Tehran As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), every single