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P. Cockburn on Iraq
From a reporter who actually is in Iraq and sees many different angles than that of the pre-approved US Army tours given to the US media, a very lucid analysis of the current state of play in Iraq. … more »
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P. Cockburn on Iraq
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cjsmith wrote 7 hours ago: From a reporter who actually is in Iraq and sees many different angles than that of the pre-approved … more »
Michael Scheuer: Marching Towards Hell
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cjsmith wrote 4 days ago: Michael Scheuer, (formerly known as Anonymous), author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing t … more »
Clark/McCain II
cjsmith wrote 5 days ago: Lost in the tempest in a teapot cable news (non)scandal let’s forget about the real issues an … more »
Hersh on Iran
cjsmith wrote 1 week ago: Seymour Hersh is out with another eye-scorcher of an article in the New Yorker. In this one he deta … more »
As Good as Post on Iraq as You'll Read
cjsmith wrote 2 weeks ago: From Dr. I-Rack at Abu Muqawama. He details good news, lingering bad news, and potential deal breake … more »
Iran Failing in Iraq?
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cjsmith wrote 2 weeks ago: Image here. Iraqi Army unit with American soldiers. Vali Nasr pens a very interesting piece today … more »
Obama and Iran
cjsmith wrote 3 weeks ago: Saw Senator Kyl (R-AZ), a big McCain supporter on Late Edition with Wolf Blizer the other morning fr … more »
Iraq Blogging From Corn Islands
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cjsmith wrote 3 weeks ago: I had been hoping to do some political blogging and today is the day–and I have the sand fly b … more »
Political News Latin America
cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: The big news here the last week has been the reported death of Manuel Marulanda, the leader of the F … more »
William Lind on Iraq
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cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: One of the foremost theorists of Fourth Generation Warfare on why there is no Iraq: The defining rea … more »
Reply to Goldfarb on Obama
cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: From Weekly Standard: First of all, I’m not clear on what the difference is between preconditi … more »
Hezbollah-Sadr Updates
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cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: Big news out of Lebanon, breaking just now, story here alJazeera English, violence is breaking out b … more »
Nir Rosen on ME-Iraq-Iran
cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: There is no better journalist in the English-speaking media world (and hasn’t been since 2003) … more »
This Week in Selling the Next War, er Strike (Iran)
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cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: From Dr. I-Rack at in the indispensable blog Abu Muqawama. The typical cast of characters that the … more »
Crack Reporting on Iraq-Iran
cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: From Cernig at Newshoggers, one of the best sites for Iraq (and especially Sadr, Iran, intra-Shia) o … more »
Iran War Rollout?
cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: Here we go again: The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planni … more »
Petraeus News
cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: [Petraeus in ‘12 stock just went up}. Major huge news out today, General Petraeus is tapped to … more »
Sadr Blog Roundup
cjsmith wrote 3 months ago: John Robb: “Maliki routed” Spencer Ackerman: “This isn’t a ceasefire st … more »
G. Porter on Basra
cjsmith wrote 3 months ago: Very smart piece. In Asian Times. (A) Key quotation: Revealing the contradictions built into … more »
