Here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum and for the Global Energy center. Maji has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long period of time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors and an analysts of the region. Its always a pleasure to have him here. So thank you so much for being here. Todays event was organized by the councils Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by has been our who moderator today. Its been a game changer having abas working with us. Hes one of those rare individual who is understands the workings of the countries hes covering iraq so intimately but also the workings of washington which in many respects is sometimes more difficult to follow. This mornings discussion is iraqs facing the daunting challenge with crisis underway and citizens demanding reform as well as the news just yesterday that Prime Minister adal adomadi will resign. Despite the current unrest and uncertainty of the future iraq has made significant progress in ye
Not only to meet its own needs for power and industry, but to be a major exporter by pipeline. Well, thank you for that. Back to iran. You mentioned, i mean, i gave you so many questions and i realize that, but that what we do as academics. Im trying to learn to be in this business. You know, because you need to really test whats there and that, you know, how doing from how to go from talking to students to experts, thats a different story. But let me follow up on my questions and your answers. People talk about two scenarios that are plausible. The demands of the protesters and many people in Political Parties, especially those who have their eyes on his job, and they think realistically they can have it. There are those more interested in reform. They think the resignation of the government of the Prime Minister will put iraq through a long tunnel, the parties would not be able to form another government for a long time. Then continued protests, and protests mean a lot more destructi
Material and troops were sent in there. For some reason will send them in and invited 70,000 japanese troops in. There is a concern given russias respect for history or maybe not respect, or an awareness that things like this. I could see that being an additional driving force in concern for protecting the arctic. For the most part, the airbases are airstrips are just not overly threatening. As i understand it except for submarines has been no ice capable naval ship. There is construction of coast guard ships but those are not armed like on National Security. So to me it still looks like a domestic approach to the arctic, not and outward looking, but a local defense activity. So i just throw that out as important because when we say military, we think aggression. When we say coast guard, we think that sun. As i look at it, i see much more of that. Once you get away from where they have submarine in the strategic issue. If you could talk about how russia really perceives that and whethe
Proposal of ceasefire, but threatens more attacks if hamas rejects it. Hamas is when the path while its military wing calls it is surrender. The israeli assault has killed close to 200 palestinians. No israelis have been killed. More than 17,000 palestinians have been displaced. Come here to save our own souls, but those of our children who woke up at 1 00 a. M. Terrified and came here barefoot. We came here walking. We will speak with israeli journalist amira hass, in rome a lot, Mouin Rabbani and with author and scholar norman finkelstein. Two Animal Rights activists have been indicted as terrorists for setting thousands of mink free from a fur farm. Well get the latest from will potter and speak about his campaign to buy a drone to monitor abuses on factory farms. What are they trying to hide . With your help, i will find out. These startling images were compiled and pulled from satellite imagery. When i saw these, oh so startled startledes i was so by the images from satellite, i t
Proposal of ceasefire, but threatens more attacks if hamas rejects it. Hamas is when the path while its military wing calls it is surrender. The israeli assault has killed close to 200 palestinians. No israelis have been killed. More than 17,000 palestinians have been displaced. Come here to save our own souls, but those of our children who woke up at 1 00 a. M. Terrified and came here barefoot. We came here walking. We will speak with israeli journalist amira hass, in rome a lot, Mouin Rabbani and with author and scholar norman finkelstein. Two Animal Rights activists have been indicted as terrorists for setting thousands of mink free from a fur farm. Well get the latest from will potter and speak about his campaign to buy a drone to monitor abuses on factory farms. What are they trying to hide . With your help, i will find out. These startling images were compiled and pulled from satellite imagery. When i saw these, oh so startled startledes i was so by the images from satellite, i t