Winking and Nod: Tony Blinken may be the Biden Secretary of State
Nearly anyone would be better than the Dominionist nutlog, Mike Pompeo. Robert Wright (New Republic) and Connor Echols wrote an article last week grading Tony Blinken,...
Trump Don't Know Much About Geography
On the eve of Trump’s State of the Union paean to himself, it may help to be reminded of all the ways in which the...
George Conway unspools *long* thread trashing Trump's geographical gormlessness
When Mike Pompeo instructed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly to point Ukraine out on a blank map, we all had some version of the same...
While meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Trump confuses him with Syrian Kurd
A Kurd is a Kurd is a Kurd, right? I’m sure Trump thinks this is close enough. I mean, how many categories of foreigners is...
A Poem Tonight for Our Kurdish Friends by One of Their Own – Cigerxwîn.
Who am I? Who am I, you ask? The Kurd of Kurdistan, a lively volcano, fire and dynamite in the face of the enemy. When...
Fatal Distraction
There is a term used in Syria and Turkey about the Kurds, “Arabize.” Essentially the Kurds since the 1920s and 30s have been ostracized as...
An inept POTUS* made the world more dangerous by supporting Turkey's advance on the Kurds
Monday began with an attempt by Individual-1 to draw attention from Ukraine by allowing Turkey to intensify military operations against the Kurds. This is why Trump didn’t...
will Spineless Trump's 'great and unmatched wisdom' be impeached by Thanksgiving in Turkey
xSitting next to a couple in their 80’s as they talk about #Syria He adjusts his hearing aid as she says, “We’re abandoning the #Kurds...
Trump Hasn't Defeated Isis, He's Abandoning the Kurds to Placate Erdogan and Protect MBS. Updated
So Hair Fuhrer just tweeted this a short amount of time ago…. We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during...
Kurdistan, Part II: The Middle East threatens to fall apart. More.
Yesterday, I posted a diary with a long (but still staggeringly incomplete) history of Kurdistan. Which brings us to more recent events… When 2017 began,...
The Kurdistan situation, part I: History
While I’ve spent the last couple days writing about events in Spain, it’s important to remember the other major separatist/independence news story: Kurdistan. So, while...
Is ISIS Disintegrating ???
Word out of Iraq from yesterday is quite different the what I see in the morning war coverage out of MSM/corporate media. -- Over in...
