Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

Cover-ups, coups, and drones

Cover-ups, coups, and drones
A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable.  The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand,...
December 21st, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

Jeffrey Blankfort: Chomsky misfires on US-Israel relations

Jeffrey Blankfort: Chomsky misfires on US-Israel relations
Jeffrey Blankfort Jeffrey Blankfort is an American journalist and recognized expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Kathleen Wells: Hi. I’m Kathleen Wells, political correspondent for Race-Talk, and today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Blankfort. Jeffrey Blankfort has been engaged in political...
November 4th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East, US, World | Read More

Another false ending: Contracting out the Iraq occupation

Another false ending: Contracting out the Iraq occupation
Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. But,...
September 1st, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Does an Afghanistan exit strategy hurt our allies?

Does an Afghanistan exit strategy hurt our allies?
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Uh oh, looks like you are starting to have an effect on the war. Congress is freaking out, calling hearings, holding up...
June 18th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Afghan Prince says U.S. and Coalition Forces making big mistake

Afghan Prince says U.S. and Coalition Forces making big mistake
Prince Abdul Ali Seraj Prince Abdul Ali Seraj is a direct descendant of nine generations of kings of Afghanistan. He is also the president of the National Coalition for Dialogue with Tribes of Afghanistan, a grassroots trans-tribal movement that has had much success in unifying all the tribes and an...
March 15th, 2010 | South Central/South Asia | Read More