Tag: kurdistan

- "ISIS has money when there is no money; they have fuel when there is no fuel. They get floods of new recruits when all borders are sealed,"

- "Seth Ferris goes against the grain, and deeper, in his analysis of what is really driving the divide and conquer game playing out on the world stage now."

- Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh - The ISIL would have captured Iraq’s Kurdistan region if it were not for Iran's Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

- "Seth Ferris gives us a front row seat on the often embarrassing process of Senate confirmation of new ambassadors... the old "making sausage" cliche' comes to mind."

- "The kurds have fallen victim to Iraq's political paralysis and the biggest military defeat in modern times, where four divisions ran away from a few thousand Jihadis."

US Court Orders Kurdish Oil Seized   by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall   While the world is distracted with Israeli atrocities in Gaza, the US and Israel are...

The Iraq war is just one facet of Israel’s Oded Yinon plan to balkanize the Middle East.

- The work on designing the pipeline, worth about $18 billion, was launched in Iraq nearly a year ago

- I see a major light at the end of the tunnel as Western countries and their big multinational corporations seem to be lining up to go back into Iran

- The Kurds could proclaim independence only by a further deterioration of the armed confrontation between the Arab Sunnis

The proposed moves, as outlined below and confirmed through DEBKA, would require the United States to return to “Bush era unilateralism,” moves unlikely if President Obama, Secretaries Kerry and Hagel and JCOS Chief, General Martin Dempsey were still alive, despite wild conspiratorial claims quoted below."

Iraq, on the first anniversary of US withdrawal, is struggling to cope with, not merely a raging sectarian crisis between the Shia-led Central Government (CG) and an increasingly resentful Sunni-minority, but more alarmingly an ethnic crisis with a heavily armed and increasingly defiant Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).

VT Editor's Note: The PKK is communist group inside Turkey, made up of Kurds trained by Israel starting in 1964. They are enemies, not only of Turkey but of the Kurdish regional government in Erbil, a semi-autonomous region of Northern Iraq.

The following short article was printed on the Press TV (Iran) website today. The meaning of it is clear to those familiar with the region, and, as hundreds, perhaps thousands of journalists have worked in Iraq and the Kurdish regions, where I have also worked, the story is obvious, it just can't be printed. Many of "players," the Mossad, big oil, the Bush family, are beyond the reach of the press, protected from the laws of man, empowered to play the world as a grand chessboard, to quote Zbigniew Brzezinski. Today's pawn is Kurdistan, unaware they are being played.

Turkey is the Key By Israel Shamir Bombs go off in Turkey, a great spree of terrorist bombings and attacks. Practically every day Turkish soldiers and...