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• The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading “Liberal Hawk”

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  “Here we have yet another example of one of America’s most Serious and respected “experts” advocating various policies while maintaining huge, undisclosed financial and personal interests in his advocacy.  He was given access to every major media outlet virtually on demand to do so — the NYT, The ...
  8 hours ago

• Turkey Plans to Ease Restrictions on Kurds and Help End Decades of Conflict

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  The plan to let the Kurdish language be used in the media and political campaigns will be debated by Parliament, but the fact that it is being discussed at all is considered to be a landmark.
  16 hours ago

• Tense Atmosphere in Kurdistan

  
  Uskowi on Iran — Authority: 473
  Reports coming out of Kurdistan indicate that after the execution of the Kurdish political activist Ehsan Fatahian on Wednesday, an atmosphere of anger toward the central government has prevailed throughout the region. In Saqez, a demonstration has been planned in town’s center for Saturday morning. There have been ...
  19 hours ago

• Watch Kurdistan TV Online Live Internet TV Stream TV Channel from Netherlands free

  
  Watch-Free.TV :: Stream Movies and TV for Free! — Authority: 153
  Watch Kurdistan TV Online Live TV Stream TV Channel from Netherlands free.
  1 day ago

• JOURNALIST AND MINESWEEPER ARE IN THE SAME FIELD

  
  Viceland Today — Authority: 145
  Take a wild guess what the most dangerous profession in Iraqi Kurdistan is. We’re not going to prolong the game and make it fun for you because these intros are supposed to be short–according to a report issued yesterday , the answer is journalist. It’s no secret the government’s into controlling their image ...
  1 day ago

• Listing to starboard

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 564
  Drowning in links, but I can’t decide what makes me maddest today. I think I’ll let Mick kick things off: I don’t want to seem too much like a broken record, going over and over the same grooves and playing the same song until My Funny Valentine sounds like Little Lambsy-Divey but I do think we need to ...
  2 days ago

• Dana Gas achieves revenue of AED 359 million in the third quarter

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 137
  ·        Quarterly revenue increases 12% compared to 3Q 2008·        Quarterly Gross Profit increases by 64% compared to 3Q 2008 3 Months to September 30th 2009 Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced its financial results for the quarter ...
  2 days ago

• More on why the U.S. REALLY, REALLY invaded Iraq

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  anyone left out there who has any more doubts about why we invaded iraq...? Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry. In the summer of 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish ...
  2 days ago

• Journalist brutally assaulted in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  Alert Journalist brutally assaulted in Kurdistan  Incident details Assault Nabaz Goran, Editor This is available in: English Français 10 November 2009  (RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical ...
  2 days ago

• Un journaliste violemment agressé au Kurdistan irakien

  
  EUROPEAN TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 130
  Alerte Un journaliste violemment agressé au Kurdistan Détails de lincident Agression Nabaz Goran, Rédacteur en chef Disponible en : English Français (RSF/IFEX) - Nabaz Goran vient de quitter Erbil (Hawler en kurde), capitale du Kurdistan irakien, pour trouver refuge à Suleimanieh. Il a déclaré à ...
  2 days ago

• Brutal Assault On A Journalist In Kurdistan

  
  The DoFollow Network - Published news — Authority: 117
  November 10, 2009 - Reporters Without Borders today called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical attack on leading Iraqi Kurdish investigative journalist Nabaz Goran, who has just left Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, to seek refugee in Sulaymaniyah to the east. ...
  3 days ago

• Change change

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 564
  Kill it. Yes, people will die, but people will die if this bill passes as is . Joe Lieberman should die. No, I don’t need Peter fucking Beinart to tell me it was a smart move. And I’ll ask the U.S. Conference of Bishops for their opinion the next time they chain themselves to the ...
  4 days ago

• Fed: GMAC to receive more bailout money – AOL

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 142
  Fed: GMAC to receive more bailout money – AOL WASHINGTON -The Federal Reserve said Monday that GMAC is the only one of 19 stress-tested banks that needs more capital to withstand losses if the economy softens. GMAC, a crucial player in the U.S. auto industry, has been unable to raise the $11.5 billion regulators ...
  4 days ago

• New Election Law in Iraq

  
  Kishkushim ?????? ???????? — Authority: 112
  BY AMOS The Iraqi parliament passed a crucial elections law yesterday, which is said to end a political stalemate that had prevented any progress on the road to holding new elections. The electoral law specifically addresses the thorny issue of voter lists in Kirkuk , the oil-rich city in northern Iraq, home to a ...
  5 days ago

• Should US Troops in Iraq Be Held Hostage to the Next Election?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  So why does the US still have 120,000 troops in Iraq? They arent for the most part doing patrols anymore. They are just being kept in place so that they can swing into action as soon as the election... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• UPDATES FROM DIYARBAKIRS IHD OFFICE

  
  Rast — Authority: 410
  "Todays human rights violations are the causes of tomorrows conflicts." ~ Mary Robinson. Here are a couple of statements from the Diyarbakır IHD office. The first is an update on the human rights situation in the Kurdish region of Turkey: PRESS STATEMENT 27 October 2009 (Give the Republic’s biggest ...
  1 week ago

• Soulbird Offers Iraqi Students A Place To Learn

  
  Music Connection — Authority: 141
  In November 2009, Soulbird American Academy of Kurdistan will open its doors for the 2009-2010 season in the relatively safer Kurdistan region of Iraq. Aiming to provide a safe place for Iraqi artists to study and develop their work without fear of danger, Soulbird will be providing courses in language and the arts. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cause for Alarm in Iraq, or Just a Ripple?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Najim Abed al-Jabouri, former mayor of Tal Afar, has a piece in the Times that seems like cause for alarm: Both the military and the police remain heavily politicized. The police and border officials, for example, are largely answerable to the Interior Ministry, which has been seen (often correctly) as a pawn of ...
  2 weeks ago

• WOMEN IN TURKISH POLITICS

  
  Rast — Authority: 410
  "We take action both for the woman raped in Istanbul or the woman stoned to death for adultery in Iran. But this is not enough. For this is not simply womens problem, the source of this politics is the male mentality." ~ Sebahat Tuncel . Hürriyets English news is moaning over the lack of women politicians ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Gold Still Rules in Pipelineistan

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 644
  The bottom line on the Iraq and AfPAK wars, and the American fixation on Iran, is oil. Obscene amounts of money, civilian lives and American integrity continue to be wasted on attempts to secure control over Central Asian energy resources, and the pipeline network that must be built to get this... This is just a ...
  2 weeks ago

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