Appy on Vietnam and Iraq, the Heartland Experience

On the April day in 2003 when American troops first entered Baghdad, historian Marilyn Young suggested that Operation Iraqi Freedom was "Vietnam on crack cocaine." She wrote presciently at the time:

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War crimes then & now

As we mark the 60th anniversary of the final end of World War 2  with the surrender of Japan, it is appropriate to consider the reporting of the war crimes of then and now. We all know about the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims) although its actuality was only officially recognized by the Allies 30 months before the end of the war. However the "forgotten holocaust" of the man-made Bengal Famine in WW2 British-ruled India (4 million Hindu and Muslim victims) has been effectively deleted from history and general perception by racist politicians, media and academic historians [1].

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STRATEGIC CHESS MOVES ACROSS EURASIA                
 
The Kyrgyz government decision allowing continued use of its Manas air base by the US forces , after the 25-26  July visit of US Secretary of Defense , Donald Rumsfeld, followed a few days later by the Uzbek government’s courier delivered  note to the US Embassy in Tashkent demanding that Washington wind up its Karshi-Khanabad (K2) base in south Uzbekistan in 180 days , along with the announcement of joint Russian Chinese military exercises scheduled for August , in the wake of 5 July notice to USA by Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to set a time table to withdraw its troops from bases in central Asia, are some of the strategic moves being made on the Eurasian chess board to counter US led Western expansion into eastern and even central Eurasian lands , by Russia as well as its former Soviet republics , with China now joining hands.

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