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Iraq doubles exports to China due to rising demand
Move One Pet Transport Blog | December 23rd 2009 by Curt Clements
Iraq is planning to increase twofold its oil export to China. The demand in the most populous country is still rising despite the economic crisis. This comes weeks after huge contracts were signed for exploration of new oil fields in Iraq. Article So read more
Iraq Says New Saddam Hussein-Era Mass Grave Found
Muslims Against Sharia | December 19th 2009 by Muslims Against Sharia
BAGHDAD — A mass grave discovered in northeast Iraq contains dozens of bodies, mostly of women and children believed killed during a crackdown against Kurds by former dictator Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi official said Saturday. The grave was orig read more
Despite Sense of Entitlement, US Companies Lose Iraq Oil Auctions
American Scofflaw | December 17th 2009
The Gay Secretary I'm sure that folks like T. Boone Pickens were assured, behind the closed doors in the Bush/Cheney era, that they would get the rights to most of the oil in Iraq. That is the only factor which can a read more
Not Enough Holes On Your Course? Try These…
Funny Emails | December 17th 2009 by Peter
Image via Wikipedia Some new golf terms to use when you’re out on the course… A ‘Rock Hudson’ – a putt that looked straight, but wasn’t. A ‘Saddam Hussein’ – from one bunker into another. A read more
Blair sold Iraq on WMD, but only regime change adds up
Suzie-Q | December 15th 2009
PM Blair seems to have deployed arguments as they suited him. Our weapons inspections were telling another story Hans Blix The Guardian/UK, December 14, 2009 2009 21.00 GMT Before the Iraq war was launched in March 2003 the world was giv read more
10 executions that defined the 2000s
Executed Today | December 14th 2009 by Executed Today
With the turn of the tide to the 2010s, we bid farewell to a decade that never did get a consensus moniker. Like every decade known to the historian’s annals, however, the Aughties found plenty of work for the world’s hangmen. As we prepa read more
Blair’s Iraq Confession
Reflections | December 13th 2009 by Deepak Tripathi
(Informed Comment, December 13, 2009) Deepak Tripathi, former BBC journalist and author of the book Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac, January 2010), writes in guest op-ed for IC: Since the launch of the Iraq Inquiry in Lon read more
One Way Or Another
Calx Europe | December 13th 2009 by Nigel Dunn
I am one of those people who did not believe we were invading Iraq for the right reasons. I felt at the time we were being lied to and this week's polished PR performance by Tony Blair in the lead up to his testimony at the Iraq Inquiry only made my read more
Deposing Saddam was “right,” says Tony Blair
Kipp Report | December 12th 2009 by ashwin salian
It was “right” to remove Saddam Hussein and his sons from power, even if the former Iraqi ruler didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC. “I would still have thought it right to read more
Russia's Lukoil wins big in Iraq oil auction
Related News & Stories - MashGet | December 12th 2009
Houston ChronicleBAGHDAD - A consortium led by Russia's private oil giant won the biggest prize of Iraq's second oil auction this year, nabbing a field initially promised them a decade ago by Saddam Hussein while other companies Saturday showed littl read more
Even when broke, thugs buy weapons
Money Jihad | December 11th 2009 by American Delight
One would be tempted to believe that during a global economic recession and an Iranian budget catastrophe, that the Islamic Republic would cut back on lavish spending to develop a nuclear program. That’s possible, but isn’t borne out by the rec read more
Obama Receives Nobel; Bankers Angry Over Supertax
Life 2000: How to Understand Life in the Third Millennium | December 11th 2009 by Tyson Chaney
President Obama accepted his Nobel Prize Peace in Oslo, Norway today. In his acceptance speech, he tried to describe how a Peace Prize winner could lead a country embroiled in two wars. Obama differentiated between unjust wars--such as the one in I read more
MUSLIM CONVERT LEFT TRAUMATISED...CASE DISMISSED
STAND FIRM | December 9th 2009
Hoteliers Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang strongly denied using any type of threatening, abusive or insulting language that was religiously aggravated against a white British Muslim convert (I’m a victim) Ericka Tazi, aged 60.The Judge Richard Clan read more
Hearsay
The Third Estate | December 8th 2009 by Salman Shaheen
“You’ll never guess who I had in the back of my cab the other day…” It was revealed today in The Daily Mail that the claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes came from an Iraqi cab driver. So now read more
Peace in Iraq?
Political Realities | December 8th 2009 by Larry
We awake this morning with the news that a series of coordinated attacks have been executed in Baghdad, including three car bombs that targeted government sites. At least 112 people have been killed, with 197 wounded and I would expect the death toll read more
Mistake of judgment (911/ detainees; pro Gitmo camp)
Here, the tongues do the slashing! | December 6th 2009 by Jake
There is a repeated line out in the web from people who are against bringing the 9/11 terrorists to trial in New York. The stand that they tend to take is that since the terrorists were caught in Pakistan, they should be tried over in Pakistan rather read more
Depois de ganhar uma "gravata" americana, Saddam Hussei…
PlunkPlakZum | December 2nd 2009 by Tarcicio Blog
O ex-líder iraquiano Saddam Hussein, executado em 2006, é homenageado e ganha um canal de televisão no país totalmente dedicado a sua vida. A programação inclui discursos, imagens e poesias proclamadas pelo ex-ditador. A transmissão é secr read more
The Prime Directive…Live Long and Prosper
The Barack Obama Evolution Blog | December 2nd 2009
The Prime Directive Yes I am a Star Trek fan but this post is not about that type of prime directive. Where there can be no interference with the internal development of pre-warp civilizations (civilizations where the technology for interst read more
What Would You Do To Stop Hitler Today?
Will the Real Kellene Bishop Please Stand Up? | December 1st 2009 by Kellene Bishop
By Kellene Bishop Knowing what you know now, would you have the courage or determination to stop Adolf Hitler if he were still in power today? What if he were doing to your own country what he did to so many others? Would you then take action? I sure read more
Iraq drilling firm to drill 180 wells in 10
Saudi Arabia News and Updates | November 27th 2009
BASRA – The state-run Iraq Drilling Company plans to drill 180 oil wells in 2010, and will be able to drill more than 250 new wells every year from 2011 onwards, the head of the company said. Thirty of the new wells planned for 2010 will be in read more
Ready, aim, get legal advice
The Atheist Conservative | November 27th 2009 by theatheistconservative
This is a way to lose a war - Stephen Brown writes at Front Page: It makes one wonder how the West is ever going to win the war against radical Islam. … Three navy SEALs have been charged for allegedly abusing a terrorist leader they had captur read more
Daily View 2×2: 26 November 2009
Liberal Democrat Voice | November 26th 2009 by Mark Pack
Good morning, and Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. 26th November is also the anniversary of the opening of the terrifying Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Today also sees a significant birthday for Tina Turner and a rather less significant one for H read more
Iraqi Government On YouTube – It’s 26/11, Where Is The Indian…
Online Shopping in India | November 26th 2009 by Joshan
After the American invasion of Iraq, there have been talks about the attacks on Baghdad being illegal. ‘The Independent’, UK revealed the discussion between the British and US officials two years before the invasion with an idea to remove read more
Men, Goats, and Torture
Free Legal Advice Online | November 25th 2009 by minny
The fantastical movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction bestseller by the same title , arrived in theaters at a most auspicious time. The movie deals with the topic of torture, just as Guantanamo detainees await read more
BRITAIN ATTACKS OBAMA’S WAR DELAY
The Liberal Democrat | November 25th 2009 by Will
Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban. A “period of hiatus” in Washington - and a lack of clear direction - had mad read more
Resurrecting Eden - 60 Minutes
Free Technology For Teachers | November 16th 2009 by Richard
On last night's episode of 60 Minutes there was a good segment about the people that live in the marshes found along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The segment covered the history of the people that live there, how people live in the marshes, why S read more
Bill O'Reilly, Saddam Hussein, and Ben Reynolds in Lie to Me 2.6
Infinite Regress | November 15th 2009 by Paul Levinson
An outstanding episode 2.6 of Lie to Me last Monday evening. Among my favorite parts -. Reynolds (Mekhi Phifer) has an expression of stubborn defiance about something he may have done wrong - cut to shots of Bill O'Reilly and Saddam Hussein. Pricel read more
Scott Horton: Antiwar Because ‘Killing People is Wrong’ (Vide…
Little Alex in Wonderland | November 10th 2009 by Little Alex
Scott Horton, anarchist host of AntiWar Radio, spoke to the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the University of New Hampshire on why libertarians should be antiwar, the history of oligarchs lying the U.S. into wars, the becoming of the Empire, b read more
Michael Jackson’s Five Questions For Derek Acorah, Video
Anorak | November 10th 2009
FOR those of you who missed Derek Acorah’s live séance with Michael Jackson, here it is. Jackson has a message from beyond. What is his message? His message is that David Gest’s head is on fire? That June Sarpong now has all the credibility of S read more
Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
ObjectifyThis | November 10th 2009 by Marina
Utopia Homelands, Central Deserts, Australia. The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my read more
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