Tag: Iraq: Kurdistan referendum

NOVANEWS Global Research News Hour episode 192 By Michael Welch, Henry Heller, and Joe Lauria Global Research   “We will not allow the creation of a second Israel in the north of Iraq.” – Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki. [1]   LISTEN TO THE SHOW Click to download the audio (MP3 format) While the world reels from news of Catalonia’s secession vote from Spain over the weekend, major powers have been sounding off on a similar referendum just six days earlier. The area in northeastern Iraq known as Iraqi Kurdistan, or the Kurdistan Region, voted 92.73 per centin favour of independence from Iraq. While Kurds in the affected area were jubilant, leaders in surrounding countries fulminated and in some cases uttered threats. The government of the multi-ethnic city of...

NOVANEWS On this electoral poster, the map of « independent Kurdistan » overflows from the autonomous Iraqi region onto Iraqi and Syrian territory. By Thierry Meyssan | Voltairenet  The referendum for the independence of Kurdistan is a fool’s game. The United States, which secretly supports it, claims in public to oppose it. France and the United Kingdom are doing the same, hoping that Washington will make their old dreams come true. Not to be outdone, Russia is hinting that although it is against any unilateral change, it might support independence… as long as everyone accepts the independence of Crimea, which means accepting its attachment to Moscow. The degree of hypocrisy of the permanent members of the UN Security Council is such that they have so far been unable to give a ruling ...