Tag Archives: iraq

The Paperboy No Cometh No More

September 11, 2023 – 4:14 am

Written Sep 13, 2011 I have read the New York Times for many years. Editors, critics, and reporters come and go, but the newspaper has held onto the best writers for the simple reason that they help circulation. Among that upper echelon is op-ed commentator Paul Krugman. The 2008 Nobel Prize winner has exhibited an […]

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Fiends in High Places

September 10, 2016 – 9:10 am

My move to Paris from New York in 1982 came with costs. I said good-byes to Anne Borchert and Jill Chapman. The first ended up having an affair with the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. The second maintained a letter correspondence informing me about the Internal Affairs investigation concerning Viktor Malenski’s murder at the Continental. The […]

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War War War

September 18, 2014 – 10:37 am

Hawks in the media and military establishment are calling for America to address the threat of ISIS after the video beheadings of journalists covering the civil war in Syria. Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News commentator, “Now, are we going to pull yourself up by our bootstraps and get on with the business […]

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Iraq Break-Up

July 14, 2014 – 10:26 am

The World Cup superseded all news over the weekend. The Civil War in Iraq continued without cessation during the last weeks of Ramadan, the holy fasting month of Islam. ISIS the Islamic militant force from Syria is looking for a knockout blow against the US-supported Malaki regime. The Kurds to the north have seized two […]

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We’re All The Same, Really

March 27, 2013 – 2:55 pm

A US Army squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi insurgent, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was a American soldier in a similar but less serious state. The soldier was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the platoon […]

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