Archive for the 'War' Category
Iraq War: Largest Displacement of People in Region Since the Creation of Israel in 1948
January 8th, 2007Mission accomplished… Via: CNN: As up to 50,000 Iraqis flee their homes every month, the U.N.’s refugee agency said Monday that it will seek $60 million this year to help the roughly 3.7 million people displaced by violence in the war-ravaged nation. The problem is larger than mere displacement, A U.N. news release states, as […]
Many More Sons Will Die While the Democrats do Nothing to Stop the War
January 8th, 2007Escalation isn’t doing nothing… Via: Guardian: Opposition to the occupation was demonstrated most clearly at the polls in November, when Democrats won both houses of Congress. Indeed just a couple hours after Vollmer was lowered into the ground the new Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, raised her gavel for the first time. To lend the […]
Future of Iraq: The Spoils of War
January 7th, 2007The first reference I could find on Cryptogon to the U.S. stealing Iraq’s oil was in 2002. That was just a lunatic conspiracy theory back then… Via: Independent: Iraq’s massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which […]
Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran
January 7th, 2007Via: Sunday Times: ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-bustersâ€, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the […]
