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Mossad backs the Kurds
The leader of the Kurds, is a Jewish billionaire named Massoud Barzani, who has a massive Kurd militia that is funded by the CIA.

The New York Times

August 19, 2008
Kurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder Keg

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

KIRKUK, Iraq - The phone rang, and ( Read more... )

Aug 18,2008

In this article on Al-Watan, Al-Bishiti explains the connection between the Georgia - Russia war connected to the approval of the Iraqi gas and oil law.

The writer argues that the approval with this law is now not only an American demand but also a European essential question.

Georgia’s borders on the Black Sea, surrounded from the north, ( Read more... )

Scandals threaten to paint red-state Alaska blue

By Karl Vick

The Washington Post
Posted August 16, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the summer morning he would deliver himself to federal marshals to begin a 3½-year sentence for accepting an oil company's bribes, former Republican state lawmaker Vic Kohring parked along the side of Alaska's busiest ( Read more... )

By Salah al-Rubaai

Azzaman, August 16, 2008

The Chinese firm, Shanghai, has started constructing a major thermal power plant in the southern Province of Wasit, the Ministry of electricity said.

Electricity Minister Kareem Waheed attended the laying down of the foundation stone for the plant, the largest ever project a foreign firm begins constructing ( Read more... )

By Wayne Madsen

Online Journal Contributing Writer

Aug 13, 2008, 00:18

(WMR) -- WMR has learned details of so-called “progressive” cause donor George Soros in the underlying turmoil between Russia and Georgia in the Caucasus.

In 1994, Soros set up shop in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, to engineer what would become known as the “Rose Revolution,” ( Read more... )

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Iraq to revive oil deal with China

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago

Iraq's foreign minister insisted Sunday that any security deal with the United States must contain a "very clear timeline" for the departure of U.S. troops. A suicide bomber struck north of Baghdad, killing at least five people including an ( Read more... )

by Jerome a Paris

Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 10:21:57 AM EST

This is another diary critical of the West's position on Georgia.

Just as a bit of background, let me state here for the record that I wrote my PhD on the independence of Ukraine, and have thus studied how Russia behaves with its neighbors rather intensively. Following that, I worked for several ( Read more... )

Updated: Oil @ $115: How Democrats made your gas cheaper...

by Steven R

Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 10:28:55 AM PDT

Democrats are ignoring a goldmine

This spring while Oil prices soared, debate festered between various factions as to whether supply/demand vs. speculators were causing the energy markets to rocket up. In case you haven't noticed, Oil markets ( Read more... )

by Richard C. Cook / August 6th, 2008

DANBY, VERMONT - The sunlight on the lake sparkles at dawn. As they have done for millions of years, the rounded tree-shrouded shoulders of the Green Mountains loom above the still waters. A loon calls from the next lake over. Who would guess that that not far from such serenity the world’s ( Read more... )

JPost: 2 more US aircraft carriers headed to Gulf

When the price of a barrel of oil drops below $100, look for the fireworks to start.

Having oil double from $100 to $200 a barrel is more acceptable to these war mongers than seeing it double from $150 a barrel.

Time to stock up on ammo, dry food and have a good supply of cash on hand.

Aug 7, 2008 14:57 ( Read more... )