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Kurds Have Overwhelmingly Voted for Independence, but Having Their Own Country Is a Long Way Off

By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet.

It's a symbolic first step.

A family displaced by fighting in the village of Shore, 25 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, walk towards an army checkpoint on the outskirts of Qayyarah (photo: Ivor Prickett/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)Photo Credit: Ivor Prickett/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

U.S. Korea Policy, “Mutually Assured Madness”

By David William Pear, September 24, 2017
["if you have nukes, never give them up - if you don’t have them, get them". - Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence.]
Those were the words of President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, about the lessons taught from the U.S. destruction of Libya and the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi.