by PPJC Admin2 | October 21, 2016 | Current News, PPJC Picks
by Patrick Cockburn Counterspin Mosul has been a dangerous place since the US-led invasion of 2003. It is the greatest Sunni Arab city of Iraq during an era in which the Sunni had lost their old predominance and have struggled against Shia-dominated governments in...
by PPJC Admin2 | October 18, 2016 | Current News, PPJC Picks
by Robert Fisk The Independent / Counterpunch Syria’s army and Hezbollah and Iranian allies are preparing for a massive invasion by thousands of Isis fighters who will be driven out of Iraq when Mosul falls. The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned...
by PPJC Admin2 | August 24, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Robert Fisk The Independent How the West would love to believe that Turkey’s army in Syria – all 10 tanks of it – are striking at last at everyone’s enemy, the blood-soaked cult of the “Islamic State”. But few in Syria or Turkey will be fooled. Isis have been...
by PPJC Admin2 | June 1, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Patrick Cockburn The Independent Isis is under attack in and around the last three big cities it holds in Iraq and Syria –Fallujah, Mosul and Raqqa. It is likely to lose these battles because its lightly armed if fanatical infantry, fighting from fixed positions,...
by TD Daniell | March 28, 2016 | Current News
Chris Hedges truthdig Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminate murder. Those defined as the enemy and targeted for slaughter are rendered inhuman. They are not worthy of...
