10 days ago by gerrymax

I was once asked, how does a futurist do his job? The futurist collects scattered pearls, individual pearls, and then ties those pearls together. Suddenly those individual pearls become a necklace, for all to see; but it is the futurist … Continue reading →

21 days ago by Jerry Dandridge

The series of attacks in Iraq are still continued and there is no end in sight. These series of attacks could harm everybody in Iraq, no matter what religion or ethic he has or from which region of Iraq he comes from. Nevertheless, a fight between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq is clearly visible. The K ...

26 days ago by Jerry Dandridge

On last Saturday, many Shiite pilgrims in Iraq traveled to the (for them) holy city of Karbala to end their mourning period for Imam Hussein Ali within this Iraqi city. Imam Hussein bin Ali was a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who died in the year 680 at the Battle of Karbala – in the fight again ...

31 days ago by Jerry Dandridge

The situation in Iraq continues to be more than strained. Only yesterday, Tuesday, there have been further bomb attacks in which at least eight people were killed. This time, bomb explosions occurred in an area outside the Iraqi capital Baghdad, where predominantly Sunnis are living and not in a reg ...

36 days ago by Jerry Dandridge

A year ago, the wave of protests (“Arab Spring”) and rebellion against so-called dictators and rulers captured Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, also Bahrain and others. Mainly Shiites took to the streets in this Sunni-ruled kingdom Bahrain to demonstrate against...

51 days ago by Watertown Wanderer

I was never a supporter of Bush's war in Iraq, but I did support our troops. I still cannot see a rational reason why Bush and his cohorts invaded Iraq. His war destroyed our country's economy, costing more than a trillion dollars. But more than that the cost in human lives was completely disgusting ...

51 days ago by jalalHB

[ via Yahoo News ] 22 Dec Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority rejected a call for all-party talks on Wednesday, ignoring U.S. pressure for dialogue to resolve a sectarian crisis that has erupted since American forces left the country this week. With fears mounting that the nation of 30 million might one da ...

51 days ago by whatafteriraq

Depressingly, it has not taken long for things to begin to show signs of unravelling in Iraq. Less than a week after the last American combat vehicle passed the frontier into Kuwait, the first crisis has emerged. It is no surprise that things are coming undone, of course; this blog has been part of ...

51 days ago by zukunftsaugen

The dust has hardly settled on the departing US soldiers’ tire tracks. Not too soon, however, for the true nature of Iraq to rear its ugly head. There is nothing like a nice big suicide bombing to make Allah happy, and to help put a little more oil money in someone’s pocket. Modernity appears still ...

52 days ago by jalalHB

[ via BBC News / Middle East ] 21 Dec Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has urged the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq to hand over fugitive Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi. An arrest warrant was issued for Iraq's most senior Sunni Arab politician on Monday on terrorism charges. Mr Hashemi denie ...