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Backgrounder on the British creation of Iraq.Sic Semper Tyrannis Kurdistan - yet another long term British and US policy triumphCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence...

Masoud Barzani has overplayed his hand – no regional powers are going to assent to partition of Iraq. Backgrounder. Asia Times Unravelling the riddle of the Kurds’ Iraqi pipedream Pepe EscobarSee alsoEconospeakThe Kurdish Independence VoteJ. Barkley Rosser | Professor of Economics and Business Administration James Madison University

You probably want to take the time to read this.Rex Tillerson and Exxon up to the neck in it.Al-Masdar NewsHow private corporations will benefit from Kurdish independence Brad Blankenship

Backgrounder.Graham E. FullerThe Future of the KurdsGraham E. Fuller | adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University, formerly vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, and a former senior political scientist at RAND

Israel and the US are determined to create an independent Kurdistan. Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are all determined to block it since they would all lose territory or be threatened by Kurdish separatists within their borders. Russia and China are allied with the latter group.This has all the makings of a gripping reality show. Right now, the race is on for control of the oil fields that lie in Kurdistan that are part of Syria, Iraq and to some extent in Iran. This was part of the original...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Is this what is driving US Kurdish policy?Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.), former military intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency