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Iraq blowback: Isis rise manufactured by insatiable oil addiction
2014-06-16 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Following the bulk of western reporting on the Iraq crisis, you'd think the self-styled 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria' (Isis) popped out of nowhere, took the west completely by surprise, and is now rampaging across the Middle East like some random weather event. The reality is far more complex, and less palatable. The meteoric rise of Isis is a predictable consequence of a longstanding US-led geostrategy in the Middle East that has seen tyrants and terrorists as tools to expedite access to regional...
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