Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Members of a pan-Arab political party had just seized power in Syria, and would do so a few years later in Iraq. It had the same name in both countries: the Baath.
Though officially brothers in Baathism, the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were actually very different and frequently at odds. Iraq was a majority-Shia country ruled by Sunnis; Syria a majorit... See more
Though officially brothers in Baathism, the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were actually very different and frequently at odds. Iraq was a majority-Shia country ruled by Sunnis; Syria a majorit... See more
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
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I sip my coffee. It’s good. “The de facto king of Iraq is a Kissinger acolyte named L. Paul Bremer III. On taking office, he passed two edicts that have shaped the occupation. Edict number one ruled that any member of the Ba’ath Party above a certain rank was to be sacked. With one stroke of the pen Bremer consigned to the scrap-heap the very civil
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Antistate actors who might have won international sympathy and even logistical support, only a year or two earlier now found themselves recast as terrorists.