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By Danny Sjursen | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The United States has already lost — its war for the Middle East, that is. Having taken my own crack at combat soldiering in both Iraq and Afghanistan, that couldn’t be clearer to me. Unfortunately, it’s evidently...

Even though I’m a pantser (writing by the seat of my pants), I still enjoy digging into the structure of stories. (Hence, all my beat sheets. *smile*) In fact, I suspect most of the stereotypical issues of those who pants rather than plot come down to...

SO the curtains have fallen on 2016, a year that has been, without a doubt, almost frighteningly colourful. Over the past 12 months, the world has witnessed a number of geopolitically significant events, events that defined the present and that we expect...

  Gold Stocks Reach 'Oversold' Record In last week's update on the gold sector,  we neglected to point out that gold stocks actually reached all time record oversold levels before reversing on Thursday. As Steve Saville points out here,...

Maliki's coalition looms again the adoption of "majority government" instead of "partnership" to end the crisis in Iraq Posted 10/02/2014 08:18 AM BAGHDAD - "arenas of Liberation" Board coalition of "state law" led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki...