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- Aug 30, 2020
- 4 min
The secret truth about the Saddam Hussein - USA relationship
Saddam Hussein was a brutal, genocidal, dictator who commited many crimes, but he was also a former unofficial US ally, which supported...
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- Jan 3, 2020
- 2 min
How UK and France created and ruined the modern Middle East
On January 3, 1916, France and the UK created the Sykes-Picot agreement, which in effect partitioned the former provinces of the Ottoman...
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- Dec 1, 2018
- 2 min
How George Bush senior greenlighted Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
In the two weeks before Iraq's seizure of Kuwait, the Bush Administration gave President Saddam Hussein little reason to fear a forceful...
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- May 19, 2018
- 2 min
Sykes–Picot: How UK and France created and destroyed the modern Middle East.
On may 19, 1916, France and the UK conclude the Sykes-Picot agreement, which in effect partitioned the former provinces of the Ottoman...
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- Mar 23, 2018
- 2 min
John Bolton wants to regime change the world.
John Bolton, Trump's new national security advisor embodies everything that was wrong with US foreign policy in the 21th century. His...
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- Oct 16, 2017
- 2 min
Iraqi army rolls into Kurdish held region of Kirkuk, raising prospect of a civil war in Iraq.
US backed and trained forces of the Iraqi army launched an operation against the US backed and trained Kurdish soldiers in the disputed...
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- Oct 8, 2017
- 1 min
What if every secession movement succeeded In Europe and Russia?
The recent upheavals in Catalonia, Kurdish controlled areas around Turkey, Brexit, the Scottish referendum and Kosovo's independence have...
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- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
Kurdistan votes for independence, and all hell is about to break loose.
Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds had voted “yes” to independence in a referendum held in defiance of the...
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- Mar 26, 2017
- 1 min
More than 200 civilians killed in US airstrikes in Iraq.
Reuters reported that the U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that a U.S. air strike had hit an Islamic State area in western Mosul where...
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- Jan 28, 2017
- 2 min
Trump bans people from countries that the US bombed from coming to the US.
President Donald Trump has banned the entry of Syrian refugees into the US until further notice. He has also halted the issuing of visas...
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