Tag: Iraq
Iraqi Government Threatens Action Against Kurds as Oil Exports Set to...
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs firmly stated the central government will take action, “including fiscal measures,” if Kurdistan begins exporting oil without coming to...
Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence
A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar...
Oil & Politics – The Real Situation in Iraq
A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the...
Shoe thrown at Chinese PM during speech at Cambridge University in...
An unnamed 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged with “public order offenses” after he threw a shoe at the Chinese prime minister, Wen...
US Training Soldiers to Enforce Border Security
Don’t get too excited over that headline. First, the soldiers being trained to secure the border aren’t US soldiers. And the soldiers who are...
Joe Lieberman’s “War Talk” On Iran
Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s claim to fame is his unflagging support of President George W. Bush’s disastrous Iraq war. Lieberman has extensive foreign policy experience;...
US General: Military Action Not Imminent Against Iran
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, said Friday that Washington does not see military action against Iran as an immediate o...
Why the West will Attack Iran
Why the West will attack Iran Excerpt from an interesting article from last January that now seems to be not far from coming true Why did French Presiden...