By Arian Mufid: The USA and other Western powers are ‘backing the wrong horse’ by supporting the failed Iraqi army – instead they should be fully assisting and equipping the Peshmarga When Haider Abadi, the current Iraqi prime minister succeeded his notorious predecessor Nuri Maliki last September, two things were on everyone’s mind. First, how…
.jpg)
Category Archives: USA
Barzani Meets Obama and There Are Lots of Questions
By a Correspondent: Kurdistan Region President Massud Barzani is in Washington for a week-long visit which includes a meeting, expected to take place today, with US President Barrack Obama. This is Barzani’s first visit to Washington since April 2012 and the first meeting between the two leaders since ISIS captured Mosul and threatened the Kurdistan…
Sorry the West, Kurds’ Fight is Not Your Fight
By Dilshad Hama: Since the ISIS assault on Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan and the bulwark role played by brave men and women Kurdish fighters, we have been hearing loads of romantic expressions from journalists and some intellectuals from the West. It seems that they have fallen in love with Kurds again. They all have something…
Is NATO behind the creation of ISIS?
By Freeyad Ibrahim: I believe the fact of the matter is that NATO forces, the United States, Britain and France are very much behind the creation of ISIS or ISIL. The general idea is that these were fighters that were initially trained in NATO camps in Jordan. The US and EU, especially the UK, have…
In the Kurdish Diaspora
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: Motorclub Median Empire has its headquarters in Cologne, Germany, but counts divisions in several other German cities and is also represented in my home village Baarn, The Netherlands. It is an open club, that is to say that its members are not all Kurds living in Germany, their trainer in…
Fighting and Mourning for Kurdistan
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: Three years ago I wanted to travel to Aleppo and help there the wounded Kurdish, female and male freedom fighters in the northern district Sheik Maksud. Fate decided otherwise and now I’m teaching, with intervals of half a year, Kurdish history and archaeology at the Mesopotamia Academy in Qamishlo…
Message of Solidarity with the French People
By Kurdish American Education Society: The following message was delivered to the French General Consul in Los Angeles on behalf of the Kurdish American Education Society (KAES) and the Kurdish community. Dear Mr. Axel Acruau: We members of the Kurdish American Education Society and the larger Kurdish community in Southern California express our revulsion and…
Rescue and Abandonment
By Dr. Rashid Karadaghi: In his informative article, “The Fight of Their Lives,” (The New Yorker, September 29, 2014), Dexter Filkins describes the relationship between the Kurds and the United States as “a series of swings between rescue and abandonment, between gratitude and distrust.” In these few perceptive words, Filkins accurately sums up the ups-and-downs…
Recruiting the Right Rebels in the Mideast: Myth of McCain’s Moderate Muslim Militants & Obama’s Good Islamist-Jihadist-Terrorists
By Dr. M. Koohzad: There is no such mortal as a moderate Muslim militant in the Mideast. They all are Islamist-Jihadist-Terrorists, SOBs. We love them if they are our IJTs SOBs. Introduction All of the issues of political economy in the Mideast are related to the imperial arrangements of the Western powers. They imposed all…
A Resurgence of Kurdish Studies Research
By Dr.Amir Sharifi: The 48th Annual Middle East Studies Association of North America in Washington DC Not long ago Kurdish scholars were lamenting the lack of scholarly research about Kurds and Kurdistan and calling on all to initiate and foster much needed multi-disciplinary research. At last Kurdish Studies is emerging as a topic of high…
Time to Recognize the True Ally
By Rauf Naqishbendi: The rise of fanatic Islamist Caliphates has brought a deplorable economic and social epoch to Kurdish history. At the same time, it has heightened the spirit of nationalism, and is issuing an emergency call for unity amongst Kurds. Jihadists from different terrorist affiliations have been ganging up on the Kurds. Although the…
A Mosque in Cuba is Praying For Kurdish Freedom
By Kani Xulam: “I had a friend who was a clown,” cracked comedian Steve Wright, and when he died, “all his friends went to the funeral in one car!” That thought came to mind while watching the dizzyingly clownish shenanigans of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose staggering buffoonery may ultimately spawn Kurdish freedom. It’s…
Forum on Kurds & the Political & Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq & Syria: CA, Dec 3
Location: CSULB University Student Union, Beach Auditorium, California December 3, 12 NOON – 3 PM The Syria-Iraqi crises are deepening every day as the Islamic State continues to expand its reign of terror in the changing political landscape of the Middle East, threatening ancient Mesopotamian religious and ethnic minorities with extinction. Humanitarian tragedies like that…
The Kurds’ Crude Making Americans Cheerful
By Dr. M. Koohzad: This article first appeared on CounterPunch Americans are very happy to see the price of fuel especially gasoline falling before the beginning of the cold season. They are smiling, happy, laughing, giggling, and even shouting at prices beyond their imagination. The price of gasoline has been decreasing since April and by…
Correcting the Contradiction of the Obama Administration
By Rauf Naqishbendi: Just like individuals, governments are to be judged for their virtues and vices, for governments are a consortium of people. To this end, decent individuals are in the company of good societies, while corrupted individuals are settled in the company of perverted societies. In a sense, one can judge an individual by…
