Friday, June 13, 2014

ICH: Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia et al



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Capture of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate


By Patrick Cockburn


If the Isis advance takes more towns and villages, then the territory lost to the government may become too large to reconquer.


Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia


By Robert Fisk


The jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis - and by Kuwaiti oligarchs - now rule thousands of square miles.



Iraq in Hell: Blame the Necons!
The secret history of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi


By Joseph Cannon


Even fighters for the rival Nusra front -- the Syrian rebels who eat hearts and desecrate churches -- temporarily broke with ISIS, on the grounds that ISIS is too extreme.



America's Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq


By Tony Cartalucci


With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired "buffer zone" within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force.



How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict


By Tyler Durden


The clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex.



Bowe Bergdahl, Barack Obama, and the Horror of America


By Paul Street


"'The governor said that the villagers have brought two tractor trailers full of pieces of human bodies to his office to prove the casualties that had occurred,'



A Coup? Nonsense!


By Uri Avnery


Israel: "Not a state that has an army, but an army that has a state".



The Duality
From My Lai to Abu Graib


By David Chicoine


The military has the allure of power which has attracted young men to it for ages as some kind of macho crucible.



Capitalism's Bullets in Latin America
Invisible Empires, State Power and 21st Century Colonialism


By Benjamin Dangl


Friends of empire and capital are found at the heights of power among Latin America's political leaders.



The Origins of Social Violence


By Richard Wilkinson


Richard Wilkinson explains why social violence in unequal societies is not just a case of the poor attacking the rich.


Hard News








Iraq : 1,700 Killed In Mass Executions Of Civilians and Soldiers in Mosul, Say UN:
A UN spokesman says the number of killings could run into the hundreds. Unconfirmed reports say 1,700 Shia soldiers have been executed. "We've also had reports suggesting that the government forces have also committed excesses, in particular the shelling of civilian areas.


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