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We are responsible for what’s happening in Iraq today

By Pepe Escobar Everyone is guilty in the ongoing Iraq tragedy. The US-trained new Iraqi army is infiltrated by militias, by death squads and even by al-Qaeda in Iraq. The SCIRI, Da’wa and the Kurds are only worried about their own

Bury my heart in the Green Zone By Pepe Escobar (Iraq)

Bury my heart in the Green ZoneBy Pepe Escobar "We are in dire need of Iran's help in establishing security and stability in Iraq."- Iraqi President Jalal Talaba...

The launch into madness

By Pepe Escobar ……………………. Kurdish warlord-turned-politician Talabani may have been US-protected during the days of Saddam Hussein, but quite a few players in the White House and Pentagon axis will have their reasons to regard the summit ...

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. [...]