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Thursday, September 2, 2010
"We won! ... America, we brought democracy to Iraq!”
." In a single burst of jubilance, one soldier shouted out the back of his Stryker vehicle, “We won, we're going home! We won! Its over! America, we brought democracy to Iraq!”....As a result of his service, Pfc. Joshua Abblar, who is originally from the Philippines, became a U.S. citizen…
Words from London
Reflections . . . .I am escaping my environment to seek the unknown. I am a goal keeper, yet goalless. I am an activist, yet have no energy. I am a health addict and organic food advocate who rarely get sick, but recently have been getting sick so easily. I am so courageous, yet have no courage to…
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The war in not over
I wrote this for Truth-Out todayPresident Obama will give a major speech on Iraq today. The oval office speech is expected to declare an end to combat operations in Iraq, and confirm the administration's commitment to withdraw the rest of the US forces and Department of Defense (DoD) …
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
reclaim the dream
Here are some photos from the Reclaim the Dream march today.The crowd stretched from M street NW until Constitution Ave. That's more than a mile long. I think there were around 15,000 folks there.I took this second photo while Martin Luther King III (MLK's son) was giving his speech after we…
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Friday, August 27, 2010
مكوّن جرو قومه
ـ"منذ أن أعلن ماكس ترشحه في الانتخابات عن مكوّن بني قومه، وما أن رفرفت في سماء بغداد لافتاته الضخمة ، حتى انهالت على الغار المكالمات : من الإئتلافات الأخرى التي تريد…
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Toyota's "Collateral Damage"
.Tears were shed in the Congressional hearing on Toyota's five confirmed five "collaterally damaged".No tears are to be shed and no corporation is to be investigated on their "precision bombs" that had caused and are still causing the constantly mounting numbers of "collaterally damaged" in…
End of War in Iraq or Rebranding of Occupation? Neither.
I wrote this for KABOBfest today:Last week, the last U.S. “combat convoy” left Iraq. By the end of this month, the remaining “combat forces” will leave the country, putting the Obama administration on track to reduce the U.S. troop level to 50,000 by August 31. The U.S. media…
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Allawi-Sadr-Talabani government?
Two important developments today:1- Allawi burns bridges with the U.S.: In a rare public feud, former Prime Minister Allawi lashed out against the U.S. role in Iraq. During a visit to Russia, Dr. Allawi accused the U.S. of coordinating its intervention in Iraq with Iran. Dr. Allawi claimed the…
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
ماجينه يا ما جينا .... فرجة للدنيا صفينه
ـ" القرقيعان عادة رمضانية موروثة، ولعبة موسمية ينتظرها الأطفال في منتصف هذا الشهر الكريم، وهي من التقاليد والعادات الشعبية السائدة منذ قرون في عموم الشرق…
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إنتَ خاب بات
هي إنتخابات لو لعبة محيبس؟ـ.ترى مـِحبس العراق ليس في يد العراقيين الوطنيين الى الآن!ـ.لأنه لو بأيدي هؤلاء ................... أو المُحتمي بالعلم الأمريكي في المنطقة الخضراء…
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Democracy Now! Interview
Click here to watch my full interview with Democracy Now! from this morning.
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The Sovereignty Day in Iraq ....
Today all the occupation troops pulled out from Iraqi cities , to stay in military bases only.Hope it will be the beginning of a real Iraqi sovereignty ,and the right way towards national reconciliation , then the country can have peace and start the reconstruction process soon.Our political Iraqi…
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Peace building....
Good Evening..sorry for being away since long time,I am in the State these days to visit my son Raed, and to attend summer course about peacebuilding, in SIT school, in Vermont.planning to start my ceritificate study for one year about conflict transformation,then the second stage is studying for…
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An issue that kept me awake....
Monday, March 30, 2009Good morning…I work as a volunteer with an organization to send water-purifying systems to Iraq, for two or three years now, (http://www.iraqwaterproject.org/), the work is excellent; we sent many systems to hospitals, clinics and schools, in many known and unknown Iraqi…
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الفيل الكبير في الغرفه .....
الخميس 9 تموز 2009 السلام عليكم.... كنت في زيارة لاميركا استمرت حوالي شهر, ذهبت مرة اخرى لحضور دورة عن صناعة السلام وحل النزاعات في معهد بولاية فيرمونت , SIT.edu وهو معهد…
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The Hard Times in Sad Iraq .....
Sunday, 13 December 2009Peace be Upon You…Iraq is passing through very hard and critical times. The conflict over power is now at its peak. Of course it is so obvious and explicit due to the fact that presidential and parliament election is very nearby. These days are crucial to the future of…
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Last US combat troops leave Iraq as political crisis continues
Listen to my full interview with Free Speech Radio News today here.
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The murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh ... إغتيال المبحوح
.The murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh (video, 30 minutes)إغتيال المبحوحWhat about the two Palestinians that were also implicated in this murder? (See fourth Comment by Michael Jansen)حماس: الفلسطينيان المتورطان ينتميان إلى السلطة (رابع خبر…
Chalabi and Al-Lami work for Iran - That is news for you? .. واي واي فطم
."The top American commander in Iraq says the U.S. has "direct intelligence" that two senior Iraqi officials in charge of keeping Saddam Hussein loyalists out of the Baghdad government have ties to Iran.Gen. Raymond Odierno says Ali al-Lami and Ahmed Chalabi "are clearly influenced by Iran" and…
Thursday, August 19, 2010
No News is Good News
No news is good news.. and judging by my last post, I should be living my happily-ever-after by now; but well, I'm writing again, I have news, and by now all the readers who are paying attention should have concluded that my news are no good, and unfortunately, they are right.A couple of weeks…
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
عرب وين طنبورة وين
قام زعيم التيار الصدري، السيد مقتدى الصدر، بإصدار "استفتاء" (فتوى) بخصوص اعتماد مرجع ديني من غير البشر. في معرض رده على سؤال عن جواز أخذ اﻷحكام الدينية واعتماد مرجع…
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Friday, August 13, 2010
An Open Letter to the Semites of America: You Are Not Really White
Dude... What's up with Jews and Arabs acting like White Supremacists these days?Matt Drudge, the right-wing racist agitator, is Jewish. Andrew Breitbart, Drudge's old time friend who edited Sherri Sherrod's video, is Jewish. Elias Abuelazam, a murderer who went on a racist killing spree in the…
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An Open Letter to Semites of America: You Are Not Really White
Dude... What's up with Jews and Arabs acting like White Supremacists these days?Matt Drudge, the right-wing racist agitator, is Jewish. Andrew Breitbart, Drudge's old time friend who edited Sherri Sherrod's video, is Jewish. Elias Abuelazam, a murderer who went on a racist killing spree in the…
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
تالباني يتلقى التهاني بمناسبة ثورة 17 تموز!ـ
مسكين مام تالباني ـ ما راح يخلص من حكم البعث. كل شي توقع لما صار "ضخامة الرئيس" الا ان يستلم في صبيحة 17 تموز هذه الرسالة:ــ"وجه الرئيس محمد ولد عبد العزيز رسالة تهنئة…
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Do they know, or don't they?
.There is a saying in Arabic that goes like this: If you have no shame then act as you please!From the onset of the UN economic sanctions on Iraq in August 1990 and until today, the US has continuously refused to give figures of civilian casualties in its 20-year economic and military war on Iraq.…
Friday, August 6, 2010
Insurance in 1935: Law No. 64 of Dallaleen
by Misbah KamalA Note on Insurance Intermediation in theLaw of Dallaleen No. 64 of 1935In September 2008 I published a short study in Arabic entitled: "Concerning Intermediation and Insurance Intermediation in Iraq" in the Iraq Insurance Review blog…
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
عاجل جدا - حملة اعتقالات تداهم الأعظمية
شواهد من داخل أسوار الأعظميةتقرير وصل عبر الإيميل في اليوم الثاني من الأحداث قرار المنع وغلق الأعظمية جاء بعد نصف ساعة من حدوث الجريمة، وهو الوقت الكافي لخروج…
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