All posts tagged Iraq

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2013 – 2014
December 29, 2014, 1 Comment

Kevin Drum: Obama’s Foreign Policy: Frustrating, Perhaps, But Better Than Most of the Alternatives (Mother Jones) ...

Iraq 2008-2014
December 25, 2014, Comments Off on Iraq 2008-2014

Amnesty International Iraq Crisis ISIS/ISIL The crisis in Iraq: Was the rise of ISIL a surprise?–– The legac ...

Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014
November 22, 2014, Comments Off on Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014

Alastair Crooke You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Why sho ...

Wednesday Night #1693
August 12, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1693

From a Who’s Who of celebrities to millions of ‘ordinary’ people, it seems the whole world is in mourn ...

Wednesday Night #1686
June 25, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1686

Cleo Paskal introduced Professor Gary Hauck, Dean of Instruction and Faculty at Montcalm Community College, Sidney, Mich ...

Wednesday Night #1685
June 18, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1685

Wonderful surprise visitor – Bert Revenaz in town from Vancouver – stimulated not only discussion of Tuesday ...

China, energy, economy & environment 2004-2013
October 12, 2013, 4 Comments

Desperate measures — Rivers are disappearing in China. Building canals is not the solution (The Economist) Eight o ...

Peak oil & the energy crisis
November 21, 2011, 1 Comment

More on oil and Wednesday-night.com Oil Notes For several years, Wednesday Nights have witnessed often passionate discus ...

2010 Year-end reviews and reports
January 21, 2011, 1 Comment

Why Do We Need Predictions? (NYT) Even though prognostications turn out to be wrong as often as they are right, why do t ...

Wednesday Night #1483
August 4, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1483

Almost every rule of Wednesday Night was broken on this occasion, but there was much jollity and mirth at the beginning ...