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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thank you Mort. I have recently been overlooking Tom Dispatch and Patrick Cockburn, agreed he is the best. Well, next to Chomsky of course.<br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:25:41 -0500<br>To: peace-discuss@anti-war.net<br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Patrick Coburn in Tom Dispatch<br>From: peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br><br>One of the most consistently compelling commentaries occurs onTomDispatch.<div><br></div><div><a style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;' href="http://tomdispatch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6cb39ff0b1f670c349f828c73&id=5e0d08ad7d&e=ae50936b0a" target="_blank">Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, How to Ensure a Thriving Caliphate</a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 13px;'></span><p style='font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11pt;'>Think of the new “caliphate” of the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's gift to the world (with a helping hand from the Saudis and other financiers of extremism in the Persian Gulf). How strange that they get so little credit for its rise, for the fact that the outlines of the Middle East, as <a href="http://tomdispatch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6cb39ff0b1f670c349f828c73&id=d62068da1e&e=ae50936b0a" target="_blank">set up</a> by Europe’s colonial powers in the wake of World War I, are being swept aside in a tide of blood. …</p><div><br></div></div><div>Read the rest at <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tomdispatch.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>—mkb</div><br>_______________________________________________
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