Bernard Lewis suggested in the Foreign Affairs journal "Rethinking the Middle East" the weakening of central power in countries to the point where "there is no real civil society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common identity." That was in 1992.
Iraqis are once again being made irrelevant in a war of spin as the Western media manipulates fact and narrative to support US action in Iraq, writes Ross Caputi.
Blue Hackle company, the British company which is responsible for training of Maliki's army and his security forces on planes, tanks... leaves Rustumiyah camp to Um-Qasr port near British consulate and grants its Iraqi employees open leaves
"The popular uprising in Iraq and the liberation of its cities one after the other, together with the collapse of Maliki’s forces and their mass desertion and retreat in face of the tribes, is continuing on a rapid basis. A number of facts on this development..."