Obama, the slide back to Iraq and the power of the “Deep State”
It was certainly impolitic of filmmaker Michael Moore, and possibly unfair as well, to tell the Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview that Barack Obama would only be remembered, a century from now, as the first black president of the United States.
'There is no future in Iraq.' Christian refugees escape to France
Arbil, Iraq — On a warm evening at Arbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan some 150 mostly Christian refugees anxiously waited to flee their homeland aboard a French government plane. The refugees, of all ages and from 25 different families, had ...
Times Topic: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
The agency said that Turkish intelligence teams had tried five times to rescue the hostages, but that each attempt had been thwarted by clashes in the area where they were being held. One senior American official, who asked not to be named, said Saturday ...
Turkey secures release of 49 hostages seized in northern Iraq
SANLIURFA Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish intelligence agents brought 49 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert ...
My tweets
Fri, 12:32: RT @ JohnFugelsang: I don't mind putting American boots on the ground in Syria & Iraq, I'd just prefer American troops to not be wearing the… Fri, 17:06: RT @ TeaPartyCat: John Boehner: "The unemployed sit around and don't think they have to work. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm leaving tow ...
Interview: THE GUEST’s Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett
The Guest, the new thriller from You’re Next and V/H/S director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett is in theaters now. The film stars Dan Stevens as “David”, a young soldier who returns from service in Iraq to find the family of one of his fallen comrades. As inferred by both the title and the tr ...
Damaging Our Country From Wars Of Choice
BY RALPH NADER The drums of war are beating once again with the vanguard of U.S. bombers already over Iraq [and soon Syria] to, in President Obama’s words, “degrade and destroy ISIS.” The Republican Party, led by war-at-any-cost Sens. Lindsay Graham and John McCain, wants a bigger military buildup w ...
