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VIPS Memo: To New Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

Scheerpost 14 Feb 2025
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq and Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS) ... Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003 ... analyst; C.I.A ... political analyst (ret.).
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VIPS MEMO: To New DNI Tulsi Gabbard

Consortium News 13 Feb 2025
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq and Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS) ... Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003 ... analyst; C.I.A ... political analyst (ret.).
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The Fatemiyoun/Zainabiyoun Influx: Iraq’s Intensified Hosting of Two U.S.-Designated Terrorist Groups

The Washington Institute 12 Feb 2025
Policymakers and analysts should ask why Iran is feeding these fighters into Iraq instead of holding them at its own bases or repatriating them to Afghanistan (Pakistan does not appear to welcome the ...
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Iraq president sues PM over unpaid Kurdistan salaries

The Times of India 11 Feb 2025
Iraq's president has sued Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani over unpaid salaries for civil servants in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, bringing into focus a rift in the country's ...
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OPEC Oil Output Falls in January on Nigeria, Iran Production Dip

This Day 11 Feb 2025
It may soon be curbed by tighter sanctions from the administration of the US President Donald Trump, Goldman Sachs and other analysts have forecast. Output in OPEC’s top two producers, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, edged lower.
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The Fatimiyoun/Zainabiyoun Influx: Iraq’s Intensified Hosting of Two U.S.-Designated Terrorist Groups

The Washington Institute 10 Feb 2025
Analysts should ask why Iran is feeding Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun fighters back into Iraq instead of holding them at Iranian bases or repatriating them to Afghanistan (Pakistan does not appear to ...
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Global wheat import dented by economic woes

Dawn 09 Feb 2025
Higher Chinese wheat output and a rebound in Indonesia’s rice production will limit shipments there, while a bigger crop in Iraq will keep one of the Middle East’s largest buyers from splurging on imports, traders and analysts said.
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Global wheat import demand dented by local output, economic woes

The News International 07 Feb 2025
Higher Chinese wheat output and a rebound in Indonesia’s rice production will limit shipments there, while a bigger crop in Iraq will keep one of the Middle East’s largest buyers from splurging on imports, traders and analysts said.
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OPEC oil output falls for second month in January

CyprusMail 06 Feb 2025
It may soon be curbed by tighter sanctions from the administration of US President Donald Trump, Goldman Sachs and other analysts have forecast. Output in OPEC’s top two producers, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, edged lower, the survey found.
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Iraq’s housing crisis: Progress made, but more solutions needed

The New Arab 05 Feb 2025
Previously, the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) provided loans of 150M IQD to working-class Iraqis to enable them to buy property ... Zahra Ladha is a geopolitical analyst focused on Iran, Iraq and transnational Shiasm.
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National Briefs: January 30, 2025

The American Israelite 30 Jan 2025
“Our analysts located a sprawling manifesto full of anti-Black content, references to accelerationism and antisemitism,” Carla Hill of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told the newspaper ... troops from Iraq and Syria.
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New US Envoy to Lebanon: Balancing support for Israel and opportunities for negotiation with Iran

LBC International 28 Jan 2025
Report by Toni Mrad, English adaptation by Mariella Succar ... Ortagus is well-versed in Middle East affairs, having worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S ... She also served in several countries, including Iraq, where she worked for the U.S ... .
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Bush, Kerry skirt thorny issue of Taiwan independence in poll run-up

The Manila Times 27 Jan 2025
Bush and rival John Kerry have conveniently avoided public debate on Taiwan ahead of the November 2 presidential vote but analysts expect differences on the core issue in difficult US-China relations.
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Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 7 Yrs Ago Today

Consortium News 27 Jan 2025
Bob and his writers made their mark in exposing corporate media falsehoods about the rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the coup and attack on coup resisters in Ukraine in 2014 and the fake Russiagate scandal.
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Iraq is a key test of Trump's willingness to counter Iran

Business Insider 26 Jan 2025
Iraq looms as a complex test for the new Trump administration ... "I believe disarming these groups affiliated with Tehran is not a decision the Iraqi government can make independently," Lawk Ghafuri, an independent Iraq analyst based in Erbil, told BI.
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