Special Project | The Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, & Iran: Week of January 22

For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in the Islamic world has been aimed at suppressing secular reformist and leftist movements. Beginning with the CIA-engineered coup against a secular democratic reform government in Iran in 1953 (it was about oil), Washington has propped up dictators, coaching these regimes in the black arts of torture and mayhem against secular liberals and the left.

6 New Items including:

• Series | "Beyond The Battlefield" -- The Book ~ David Wood
• The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers
• The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
• War on Iran: It’s Not A Matter of “If
• War Plan Iran: The US Finally Admits Its Criminal Bankruptcy
• U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

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The Myth of “Isolated” Iran, Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch.com

• What if, however, there is no “red line,” but something completely different? Call it the petrodollar line.
• Following the Money in the Iran Crisis
• War on Iran: It’s Not A Matter of “If” Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch
• The analogy here is the run up to Pearl Harbor. Let me quote from a useful timeline. On October 7, 1940,   a US Navy IQ analyst Arthur McCollum wrote an 8 point memo on how to force Japan into war with US. Beginning the next day FDR began to put them into effect and all 8 were eventually accomplished.
• War Plan Iran: The US Finally Admits Its Criminal Bankruptcy.
• U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East

War Plan Iran: The US Finally Admits Its Criminal Bankruptcy, Finian Cunningham, Global Research <>

• Officially, America is now bankrupt: financially, economically, politically – and morally. Its criminal aggression towards Iran is just one of many parts of a jigsaw that add up to a clear and grotesque picture of what the United States of America now represents in the 21st Century world.
• U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East

U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East, David S. Cloud, San Franciso (CA) Chronicle

• The Pentagon has stationed nearly 15,000 troops in Kuwait, adding to a small contingent already there.
• The Pentagon also has decided to keep two aircraft carriers and their strike groups in the region.
• Our future depends on stopping an attack on Iran

Series | "Beyond The Battlefield" -- The Book ~ David Wood, Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
HuffPost's Latest e-Book: Beyond the Battlefield: The War Goes on for the Severely Wounded

The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers, H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout
"The crisis is so severe that I'm telling women to simply not join the military because it's completely unsafe and puts them at risk. Until something changes at the top, no woman should join the military." --Veteran April Fitzsimmons, victim of sexual assault