Showing posts with label Shia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shia. Show all posts
Monday, June 17, 2013

Outline of power sharing peace plan for Syria, modified from Lebanon’s Electoral Law, to add to the Annan plan

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There are three points to this plan, which I’ll go into much more detail on in my next post. (1) = A power sharing constitution loosely ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Why sanctions on Iraq could have been ended without any war of invasion or occupation ; no threat from Saddam’s regime to Iraqis or other countries existed by 2000; the genocide against the Marsh Arabs was largely over by the late 90s and could have been ended by air strikes in the Southern No-Fly Zone

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The tenth anniversary of the Iraq war has seen the repetition of many excuses for the invasion. One of the commonest is that UN sanctions ...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Houla massacre - no throats slit, uncertainty over whether government or rebel forces responsible and who victims were - many media reports wrongly assume all Syrian opposition claims are true

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Media reports on the Houla massacre in Syria were previously quoting people who said they were survivors on all the victims being Sunn...
Monday, December 26, 2011

The power struggle in Iraq may be more about Exxon and other oil companies wanting contracts with the Kurdistan regional government than sectarianism

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and the US and it’s allies have not tried to prevent sectarian violence, but encouraged it as a means to divide and conquer Iraqi Prime Mini...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Libya is not like Iraq in 2003, but Iraq at the end of the 1991 war - no intervention will mean massacres

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Too many people, including me, have been looking at what's happening in Libya through wariness of the war propaganda on Kosovo in 1999 ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Blair, the US, the UK and Saddam's invasions and massacres - the full truth

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Iraqi Kurds collect the bodies of those gassed by Saddam's forces at Halabja in 1988. The full truth on this massacre and many others - ...