US Imperial Strategy in Disarray
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Future Of Iraq's Oil Industry Under Threat
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikWhile Iraq has been a major contributor in terms of lifting overall OPEC production, issues relating to missed payments to international oil companies threaten the country's energy future
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Canada to Withdraw Jets From ISIS War
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzEnding Involvement in Airstrikes Was a Key Campaign Promise
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PM-Elect Of 'US Ally' Canada Wastes No Time: Tells Obama Will Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syr
• http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenWith the ink still damp on voter slips, newly crowned elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasted no time in fulfilling the first of his liberal "hope" and "change" promises.
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Shocking Emails Expose George Bush and Tony Blair Plotting Iraq War a YEAR Before the Invasion
• thefreethoughtproject.comIn a stunning blow to the official narrative propagated by the Bush administration, recently released, declassified emails have exposed the numerous lies government officials espoused in the months leading up to the war in Iraq.
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Smoking Gun Memo Changes Context of Middle East
• The Daily BellSo it is all coming out now ... the deliberate, cold-blooded planning to create a war with Iraq no matter the consequences. The evidence is contained in communications from then US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W Bush.
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Images From The Iraqi Frontlines...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenImages From The Iraqi Frontlines: Iran-Backed Fighters Battle ISIS For Control Of Key Refinery
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Iraq Flies Chinese-Made Drones
• popsci.comCH-4 soon to start bombing ISIS
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'A step closer to war': UK pilots given green light to shoot down hostile Russian jets in Sy
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Romil PatelAs relations between the West and Russia steadily deteriorate, Royal Air Force pilots have been given the go-ahead to shoot down Russian military jets when flying missions over Syria and Iraq if they are endangered by them.
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UK MoD Denies Tabloid Reports RAF 'Ready To Shoot Down' Russian Planes Over Iraq
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, RTUK media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from Moscow. Britain's military says there is "no truth" in the reports.
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Iraq Cuts Off Wages and Pensions to ISIS-Held Territory
• antiwar.comMeant to Hurt ISIS, Move Actually Makes Locals More Dependent on Them
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'This is a major world event': The Syrian war is now fueling a 'global cold war'
• Business InsiderOne day after launching a campaign of airstrikes in Syria, Russia announced that it was considering going into Iraq.
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3,842 Killed in Iraq during September
• AntiWar.comAntiwar.com found that at least 647 civilians and security personnel were killed across Iraq during September. Another 736 were wounded. Militants lost 3,195 personnel, while 397 of them were known wounded.
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Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA
• yahoo.comHundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the rapid internationalization of a civil war in which every
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A Sense of Despair Is Sweeping Through Iraq.
• unz.comThis Email from My Driver in Baghdad Proves It Focus in Europe has been on refugees from the war in Syria, but a mood of desperation and despair is also sweeping through Iraq
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Recognize that Iraq Is History
• http://www.independent.org,Oftentimes when the U.S. superpower intervenes in the business of other nations, after U.S. troops withdraw, the American people lose interest and the country disappears from the consciousness of the public.
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City of Refugees: How Houston became a resettlement magnet
• http://www.houstonchronicle.com, By Andrew KragieAli Al Sudani, who fled Iraq, helps others resettle
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US Run by 0.001% of American Population – Powell's Former Chief of Staff
• m.sputniknews.comLawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell claims that US politics is determined by about 400 people with a combined wealth of trillions of dollars who control government decision-making from the backstage.
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Twisting The Truth On The Iraq War
• Ron Paul Liberty ReportDick Cheney's coming out with a new book arguing for an even more interventionist foreign policy. Jeb Bush blames "faulty intelligence" for the Iraq war fiasco. Is history being re-written?
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Republicans Can't Face the Truth About Iraq
• unz.comGov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: "we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence."
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Donald Trumps Advocates Sending Ground Troops to Fight the Islamic State
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt NimmoCandidate says U.S. needs to take Iraq's oil
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Jeb Bush: Tell the Truth About the Invasion of Irag
• LewRockwellGov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: "we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence."
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ISIS Truck Bomb Kills at Least 80 in Baghdad Market
• AntiWar.comBomber Told Shoppers He Had Cheap Tomatoes to Sell
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Why Partitioning Iraq Is a Terrible Idea (Video)
• TruthdigEvery time there is a big civil conflict in a country, pundits always rush to speculate about or even urge partition. I remember when I was living in Lebanon in the 1970s during the early years of its civil war, there were speculations that it would
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A new fight over oil shows why it's so hard to keep Iraq from splintering
• Washington PostBAGHDAD -- Iraq's Kurdish region has begun to sell oil independently of the central government, a move that is exacerbating divisions in the country as it struggles to turn back Islamic State militants.
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Fleeting American Public Support for Murky Wars
• http://www.cato.org, By TED GALEN CARPENTERCalls are mounting in Congress (and among some influential opinion groups) for escalating Washington's military intervention against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and for possible military action against Iran if the new nuclear agreement with that country
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Twenty-Five Years Later: A Look Back at 'The Other Good War'
• http://antiwar.com, Tom KnappOn August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, a tiny Persian Gulf emirate.
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Turkey Escalates Airstrikes Against Kurdish Targets in Iraq
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzErdogan: Peace Process Is 'Impossible'
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Iraq gets $350m for reconstruction of towns recaptured from ISIS
• haaretz.comWorld Bank loan marks first international help to rebuild areas devastated by war against extremist militants, Baghdad says.
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Iraq Residents: 'We Know America is Providing ISIS with Weapons & Food'
• Prison PlanetThe people of Iraq are increasingly blaming the United States for the spread of ISIS in their country, a Wall Street Journal report reveals.
