Mickey of Colorado Is A Modern Lawrence of Arabia Mickey stands out, the former Colorado biker is now a Sergeant Major in the Peshmerga. His blond hair and blond goatee are covered in combat by a death’s head balaclava, like the masks worn by the Isis warriors. The name tape on his military [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’
April 14th, 2015 - 10:39 pm § in Politics
Senator Loose Cannon’s thoughts about war and peace
“I think that Americans—and this is not true just now, but over the years—are not fundamentally opposed to war. They’re fundamentally opposed to losing wars.” — Sen. Tom Cotton Photo: Sen. Cotton, who favors military action against Iran, believes a deal with the ayatollah[...]
Does GOP Support a Saudi Led Crusade: Who is Mohammed bin Salman ?
While the Republicans are hysterically denigrating* the Lausanne agreement with Iran, the GOP seems all to happy about the war like actions of Saudi Arabia. The GOP perhaps does not remember the 1950s when Standard Oil (or was if Gulf?) ran commercials on TV showing how American oil companies were [...]
Pope Francis urges recognition of Armenian genocide
The massacres of Armenians by Turks during World War I were as barbaric and gruesome as any mass murders in human history. But even today, a century later, the Turkish government bristles at the word “genocide” and engages in a campaign of denial, disregarding the scholars who consider t[...]
Bani Sadr: An Iranian President Sees The Lausanne Agreement as a Major Blow to Iran’s Theocratic Rulers.
For the US, the news is very good. For Israel, not so much. The Global Post has a very important interview with Abolhassan Bani-Sadr:, the first President of the Iranian Republic. Bani-Sadr was forced to into exile because his views on the US were too moderate for the radicals who had fermented [...]
March 29th, 2015 - 8:43 am § in America
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: Mirel Goldenberg On Obama’s legacy
Mirel Goldenberg Presidents, generals, warlords, popes, kings…are judged not by intentions but by results. Elected to correct the mistakes of the moronic Bush. Obama added his own mistakes and if his exit will be today, the world is even in a poorer shape that on Bush illuminated period. Iraq [...]
March 27th, 2015 - 1:19 am § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
Is Israel’s PM a Racist?
Playing the race card against Netanyahu (POWERLINE) The West seems to be in the process of switching sides when it comes to Israel and Iran. Negotiations that will lift sanctions on Iran are in the final stages; meanwhile European leaders are discussing the imposition of sanctions on Israel. Moreo[...]
March 25th, 2015 - 6:12 pm § in Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: The Kingdom Goes to War
Arab forces led by Saudi Arabia have gone to war against Iran’s proxies in Yemen. The air forces bombed the Houthi fighters who have taken control of Yemen’s capital and advanced on the southern city of Aden where the country’s president has taken refuge’ Saudi Ambass[...]
March 24th, 2015 - 8:22 am § in Israel/Palestine
IS PALESTINE A RELIGIOUS BELIEF?
The Religious Dogma of Palestinian Statehood Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn of the Religious Zionists of America, Philadelphia, argue in the Algemeiner, a German newspaper, that advocates for a Palestinian state are “religious.” Their argument is ironic because they ignore the idea[...]