Reidar Visser’s article titles: Iran’s Role in Post Occupation Iraq, Enemy, Good Neighbor or Overlord? suggests US counter influence measures in Iraq, I suggest a reduction of influence thru new UN mandate for census, elections and boarder supervision in Iraq.
A new policy report prepared by a mix of Iraqi professionals with the support of the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI) was published in February 2009 . The report titled More than Shiites and Sunnis recommends institutional reform and explains how this could lead to positive changes and support the independence of Iraq. There […]
Friedrich Nietzsche is the German philosopher of power, a story was told about him when he saw a man beating his horse to make it pull a coach, but the horse didn’t move. The man continued beating his horse which led Nietzsche to interfere and shout at the man hysterically asking him to stop punishing […]
It is up to the new President to offload the cost of control of Palestinian rocket firings and Iraqi consensus building to local democracy.
It is no secret to some of us Iraqis that passports and ID documents can be issued quickly from inside Iraq by bribery or by favoritism. And it is no secret that those responsible for issuing thousands of passports to non-Iraqis by our embassy in Sweden have returned to their original positions in the embassy […]
نحن عراقيون لا يخفى علينا أن جوازات السفر وأوراق الهوية يمكن الحصول عليها بالمحسوبية أو بالمال من داخل العراق. ولا يخفى علينا أن المسؤولين عن إصدار الآلاف من الجوازات لغير العراقيين من سفارتنا في السويد قد عادوا الى مناصبهم الأصلية بعد وقت قصير من الفضيحة التي أدت الى سحب الإعتراف بالجواز من فئة والى معاناة […]
I was mocked by friends for suggesting a link between the recent events in Georgia and the possible Israeli attack on Iran, in this context I wrote in Arabic in my blog entry on August 24: The recent events in Georgia suggest a link with the contemplated strike (on Iran), the common factor between them […]
First of all I have to make it clear that I do not have inside information and I am not gazing into a crystal ball, these are my own speculations based on reliable news items. Second, my narrow angle is in regards of the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran and its effect on […]
The recent UN report regarding the issues of defining Kurdish regions contained the recommendations of the UN representative for Iraq, Staffan di Mistura. The report is now known as the Di Mistura report; its purpose is “to contribute to the development of processes to resolve these complicated and sensitive issues” and relied on the 2005 […]
In commercial markets when the supply exceeds demand by a large amount, a situation exists when the buyers are so empowered that they dictate their terms on the sellers. This situation is called a buyers’ market. And in reverse, when demand exceeds supply it is called a sellers’ market. Iraq now is like a goldmine […]
