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• Fed: GMAC to receive more bailout money – AOL

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 140
  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 ...
  21 hours ago

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

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  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! ]]
  4 days ago

• UPDATES FROM DIYARBAKIRS IHD OFFICE

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "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 ...
  4 days ago

• Soulbird Offers Iraqi Students A Place To Learn

  
  Music Connection — Authority: 140
  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. ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• WOMEN IN TURKISH POLITICS

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "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 ...
  1 week ago

• Black Gold Still Rules in Pipelineistan

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 647
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Last chapter of the occupation?

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 120
  Juan Cole discusses some of the fall-out from the latest blast in Mess-o-potamia .  Given that the blast wounded some members of the Iraqi parliament, Hadi al-Ameri, a member of parliament rightly asks: “We’ve heard a lot of brouhaha about successes on the security front,” he said. “Where are these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Last chapter on the occupation?

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 120
  Juan Cole discusses some of the fall-out from the latest blast in Mess-o-potamia .  Given that the blast wounded some members of the Iraqi parliament, Hadi al-Ameri, a member of parliament rightly asks: “We’ve heard a lot of brouhaha about successes on the security front,” he said. “Where are these ...
  2 weeks ago

• ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ~ W. B. Yeats Heres the next movie I must see: Its about a Turkish teachers first year in a Kurdish village. Its Turkish title is İki Dil Bir Bavul ( Two Languages One Suitcase ) but it looks like it will have a different name for ...
  2 weeks ago

• FRIDAY NOTES

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "One joy shatters a hundred griefs." ~ Chinese proverb. Let me catch up with some things that I have wanted to post here this week but have not had the chance to do. Firstly, thanks very much to the heval who pointed out to me that there is a series of twenty-one videos of the Peace and Democracy Groups in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Living with the aftermath of Saddam’s Kurdish genocide

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 500
  Years before the Saddam regime targeted civilians on their Kurdish identity, it targeted people with associations to the Barzan tribe (Mizori Balla, Sherwanis, Dolamaris and of course Barzanis from the village of Barzan). Some 8,000 Barzani males over the age of 13 were trucked away and buried in mass graves in 1983. ...
  2 weeks ago

• WHO IS SUPPORTING THE PKKS PEACE GROUPS?

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.” ~ George Bernard Shaw. The Federation of [Turkish] Martyrs Families isnt happy that there may be a political solution to the Kurdish situation: [President of the Federation of Martyrs Families Hamit] Köse compared the reception of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel Spearheading deadly US, India Troika

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 543
  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday that a controversial television drama which shows actors dressed as Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian children will not be taken off air. This is the latest, in line of cracks that have appeared in the Israeli-Turkish relationship. Recently the Turkish ...
  2 weeks ago

• WELCOMING THE PEACE AND DEMOCRACY GROUP IN SILOPI

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "Some of us, on the other hand, opted to take active part in the Kurdish Freedom Struggle and remained in the mountains for years under immensely difficult conditions in order to protect an honourable identity. This was in the face of an otherwise unsolvable Kurdish question, with inequalities in the living conditions ...
  2 weeks ago

• Soulbird hopes to build a safe nest for Iraqi artists

  
  Crib Notes — Authority: 436
  Atlanta musician goes to Kurdistan to make music amid chaos.
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday Night #1442

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  This week we offer a wide diversity of topics, with no particular linkage between them – and are open to other suggestions. We hope to have Ron Meisels and Chil Heward with us for their last evening before their trip to London, and that they may give us a quick run-down on what they will be telling their London ...
  3 weeks ago

• FIREWORKS IN SILOPI

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "If the government takes one step, PKK will take ten steps." ~ Ahmet Türk. There were fireworks in Silopi on Monday night as thousands of people crowded around the Habur border crossing to stand watch over the processing of the Kandil and Maxmur peace delegations sent to Turkey by the PKK. The eight members of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Heritage merger with Genel delayed

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Demonstrating the difficulties of working in the Kurdish Region of Iraq Heritage Oil said on Monday that its longawaited merger with Turkish group Genel would be delayed.
  3 weeks ago

• Terror Attack on Revolutionary Guard ‘Backed By U.S. and Britain’: Kayhan, Islamic Republic of Iran

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  Some of Iran’s top military commanders were killed in a terrorist attack on Sunday, and according to this article from Iran’s state-controlled Kayhan newspaper, the regime holds the U.S. and Britain responsible. The Kayhan news item says in part: “A terrorist blew himself up at a meeting of tribal ...
  3 weeks ago

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