Tag: isis
Apr. 21, 2017
Ready for another war?
It’s clear that Donald Trump’s first hundred days haven’t turned out to be the walk in the park he envisioned. The most spectacularly unqualified and…
May. 1, 2015
Fighting for Assyrian-American identity
When I was a little girl, I wanted to name my future child Isis, but as the terrorist group ISIS continues to wipe out the…
Oct. 10, 2014
Oil prices on surprising decline
Oil prices declined by 16 percent since the June high. Why are oil prices declining? What’s the role in the decline? While the oil price…
Sep. 26, 2014
Congress launches US into war
Two ships passed in the night in the past week. More than 400,000 people marched in New York to dramatize the ecological disaster already upon…
Jul. 11, 2014
Iraq: ‘the garden of forking paths’
On June 29, the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria declared that it had established a caliphate and Abu Bakr…
Jul. 11, 2014
Back to Baghdad: the ISIS crisis
So, let’s see. We are asking our declared enemy in the Middle East to help prop up the puppet government we created for its benefit…