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Different ways to evaluate EFL teachers include the British Council Standards criteria. The contentious issue in the questions of the British Council Standards revolves around applying the three domains (Knowledge, Skills, Values, and attitudes) of evaluation for EFL teachers and scrutinizing the British Council Standards to ascertain their suitabi...

The research aims to determine the level of application of guidelines in accordance with ISO 10002:2018 in the Trade Bank of Iraq. The research problem is the lack of awareness of the importance of the system in dealing with customer complaints. The research depended on a case study approach and the checklist as a data collection tool, in addition...

The focus of this paper lies in the definition of an important aspect of financial development, which is reflected on the alleviation of poverty, namely financial inclusion as one of the most important tools used at the international level. as one of the biggest obstacles to economic development and development policies is a problem of financing de...

The economic relations between the European Union (EU) and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) have evolved significantly over the past decades. This analysis aims to compare the economic policies and relations between the EU and the KRI with those of other regions, particularly focusing on trade, investment, and development cooperation. By benc...

This study examines the impact of competition in the audit market on audit quality and audit fees within the Iraqi Stock Exchange. Audit market competition has been a subject of extensive debate, with conflicting perspectives on whether increased competition enhances or compromises audit quality. Some researchers argue that competition in the audit...

The Azgeleh earthquake, one of the most dangerous natural events in Iranian history, occurred on November 12, 2017, in the border area between Iran and Iraq, near the city of Azgeleh. This earthquake, with a magnitude of 3.7 on the Richter scale, is considered one of the strongest earthquakes in Iran in recent years, which not only caused significa...

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) offers a path toward sustainable transportation but faces challenges due to high temperatures, mountainous terrain, and limited infrastructure. This study examines key considerations, including battery thermal management, motor efficiency, aerodynamics, charging infrastru...

Access to reliable electricity is a critical challenge for rural health facilities, particularly in remote areas with limited or no access to the national power grid. The adoption of other energy sources to grant access to healthcare in rural communities is a suitable solution and one that aligns with the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) set...

This study aimed to know the purity and suitability of drinking water produced from the Al-Numaniyah city water treatment plant, and to compare the properties of this water with Iraqi and international standard drinking water, and to know the presence of potential pollution points. Physical, chemical and biological tests were conducted on drinking...

This study discusses many aspects of the political discourse in Iraq after 2014, its impact on the integration of Iraqi society and the achievement of national unity, and the changes that occurred in the nature of the political system in 2003 and in 2014 and beyond. There was a need for a complete change in political discourse. According to the dev...

Background Trauma experienced by one generation has potential to impact those that follow. Refugee youth in particular are vulnerable to trauma and its intergenerational effects. By examining trauma subtypes, the impact of parental trauma, and post-/pre-migration stressors, this study investigated pathways linking parental trauma to psychological s...

ان المحتوى الأساس للبحث هو معرفة طبيعة العلاقة بين السياسة التجارية والنمو الاقتصادي في العراق، والى أي مدى تمارس هذه السياسة دورها في تحفيز النمو الاقتصادي في البلد، وكذلك تحليل وقياس العلاقة بينها وبين النمو الاقتصادي للمدة (2003-2020) باستعمال نموذج (ARDL) وبعد ذلك تم طرح بعض الحلول المقترحة لتحفيز النمو الاقتصادي في العراق وبموجب نتائج واستنتاج...

تسعى الدراسة الحالية الى التعريف بالمرونة المالية في الشركات الصناعية وممارساتها للوصول الى كفاءة الاستثمار بعد التعرف بالمرونة المالية ومدى تأثيرها من خلال مؤشراتها (الرافعة المالية، صافي التدفق النقدي، قابلية الدين) كمتغير مستقل في كفاءة الاستثمار بمؤشراته (معدل دوران الموجودات، معدل دوران رأس المال العامل، معدل دوران الحسابات المدينة، معدل دوران...

This paper investigates exile in the poems 'Another Planet,' 'I Was in a Hurry'and 'America' by the Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail. It clarifies the intricacies Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies (JoALLS)

يسعى البحث الحالي إلى التعرف على مدى تأثير رأس المال الممتلك كمتغير مستقل في المخاطرة النظامية كمتغير تابع. وقد تم بناء البحث على مشكلته التي تمثلت بتساؤل مهم ورئيسي وهو (هل هناك تأثير لرأس المال الممتلك كمتغير مستقل في المخاطرة النظامية كمتغير تابع للشركات عينة البحث؟). إذ تم التعبير عن العلاقة بين المتغيرات من خلال الأنموذج الفرضي للبحث الذي انبث...

This article examines the 1964 interim constitutions of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria as markers of a two-decade-long shift in Arab constitutional design—moving from individual liberal rights toward a new regional social contract centered on social rights. The vision of a progressive society rested on two principles of collective welfare: solidarity—expre...

This study aimed to know the purity and suitability of drinking water produced from the Al-Numaniyah city water treatment plant, and to compare the properties of this water with Iraqi and international standard drinking water, and to know the presence of potential pollution points. Physical, chemical and biological tests were conducted on drinking...

The study was conducted between February and April 2022 with the aim of knowing the effect of agricultural activities on the condition of the honey bee population in middle Iraq 30%, 17% and 11%, respectively. A survey of a set of data on traditional beekeepers, honey sellers and farmers were conducted. The survey was conducted in three selected ar...

Corporate sustainability has emerged as a significant concern for businesses operating in high-risk sectors, particularly in economies facing political instability, economic volatility, and regulatory uncertainties. This study examined the impact of non-traditional financial disclosures, specifically environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disc...

يُعد موضوع الديمقراطية في العراق ، موضوعاً هاماً وحيوياً ، لِما له من دور أساسي في الحياة السياسية والإجتماعية والإقتصادية للمجتمع العراقي ، حيث شكل هذا المفهوم الحياة العامة والسياسية لكافة شرائح المجتمع العراقي ، وكان نقطة تحول في التاريخ السياسي العراقي ، بعد مرور عقود من الدكتاتورية والتي مارسها نظام حزب البعث بحق المواطنين العراقيين ، لذلك تُع...

هدف البحث الحالي إلى إختبار تأثير سلوكيات القيادة الكمومية في تحسين رحلة الزبون. تم ذلك من خلال إستطلاع آراء مجموعة من مقدمي الخدمات المصرفية العاملين في المصارف الأهلية في العراق والذين هم على إتصال مباشر مع الزبائن والبالغ عددهم (126) موظفاً، وذلك من خلال توزيع إستمارة إستبيان عليهم. تم تحليل البيانات التي تم جمعها بإستخدام برنامجي (SPSS V.22) و...

The quantitative genetic relationship between two populations of the fly, Calliphora vicina was studied, specimens of which were collected from some areas of Waist and Southern Iraq. In this study, the geometric morphometric system for wing shape and size was used to detect quantitative genetic variations in the shape, size and area of the right wi...

By using satellite images of Landsat 7 (Thematic mapper system) through thermal band in the several parts of northern Iraq such as Guwair, Makhmour,Hawija and west part of Mosul with special type of image processing software in order to explain the thermal anomalies on the surfaces of these areas. A geochemical analysis indicated a high concentrati...

There are different designs of the flat plate collector and each one performs a different thermal performance. The present work includes the serpentine and spiral collectors. The experiment was conducted in Duhok city in Iraq. The same material and dimension were used for the serpentine and spiral collectors. The absorber plate area was 1 m 2 and t...

Background: Cytokines have an essential contribution to the inflammatory response and the development of chronic inflammation. Therefore, they have a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Interleukins are closely related to rheumatoid arthritis, and the exact role of some interleukins in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis...

Hotel management plays a vital role in shaping the guest experience, ensuring operational efficiency, and sustaining competitive advantage in the hospitality industry. This study explores key components of effective hotel management by examining how service quality, human resource practices, technological innovation, and sustainability influence bo...

Abstract. Chemical stabilization is a typical method for enhancing salinity in soils. In this regard, an effort has been made to evaluate the effect of chemical substances and stabilizers of Portland cement on the geotechnical characteristics of salt soils. Due to their geologic makeup, textural characteristics, and climatic factors, the majorit...

Big Data analyses attract many researchers to create or develop new efficient statistical techniques to analyse big sets of data and deal with the problems that Big Data bring like noise accumulation and multicollinearity. This work presents an innovative approach to estimate the generic linear regression model of Big Data using several test proces...

This article aimed to review the resistance mechanisms in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and to conduct a comprehensive study of previous studies in all governorates of Iraq on the resistance of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae to imipenem using different clinical samples. The study demonstrated the prevalence of imipenem resi...

The current research is entitled The Role of Digital Marketing in Developing Institutional Performance A Case Study in Maysan Oil Company. The purpose of the research is to develop institutional performance as a whole or some of dimensions through the optimal use of digital marketing channels and dimensions. To achieve this purpose, data were colle...

The research deals with measuring and analyzing how the fiscal and monetary is related to inflation and rates of unemployment in the economy in Iraq between 2005-2022, and this topic has been addressed to find out the role played by these two policies in achieving economic stability. This can happen when inflation and unemployment rates are control...

This study aimed to investigate the removal of methyl green (MG) dye from aqueous solution on activated pomegranate peels and low-cost activated date kernels as an effective adsorbent sourced from Iraq. The two surfaces of the absorbent materials were examined using a scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and the dose of the adsorbent was determined...

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Lecture notes on applied electromagnetics for the second year students of electronic and communication engineering department, Uruk University, Baghdad, Iraq.

The education sector is one of the most important sectors related to building the future, achieving renaissance and comprehensive development of society. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine the nature of the distribution of schools in Baghdad governorate of Iraq using Geo-statistical tools of Geographic Information System (GIS). The...

The diversity of chemical elements present in the soil and their complex composition makes it more difficult to determine the presence of a specific element. In this report, LIBS technology was used to analyze Si ion plasma in soil using an Nd:YAG laser that emits a wavelength of 1064 nm. The optical emission from silicon ion plasma was measured an...

يساهم الذكاء الاصطناعي ونظم المعلومات الجغرافية في رصد ومراقبة الغازات الدفيئة بدقة وكفاءة عالية من خلال تحليل البيانات البيئية وتتبع مصادر الانبعاثات. إذ يعتمد الذكاء الاصطناعي على خوارزميات متقدمة لتحليل مستويات الغازات في ظل الظروف الجوية المختلفة مما يسهم في التنبؤ بالتغيرات المناخية بدقة. كما تساهم نظم المعلومات الجغرافية بنشاء خرائط تفاعلية ت...

Despite major advances in environmental security research, non-experimental observations typically rely on methods that retrieve or validate specific linkages, rather than uncovering broader causal mechanisms underlying environmentally driven armed conflict. This article demonstrates how recent advances in causal methodology can be applied to more...

This study investigates the complex challenges of managing heritage sites in Iraq, focusing on the Prophet Tho Al-Kifl Shrine in Babylon due to its religious, historical, and architectural significance. The site exemplifies critical management issues, including institutional fragmentation, limited technical and financial resources, and insufficient...

Hydrodynamics is the interpretation of subsurface fluids and pressures to explain and predict hydrocarbon occurrence and trapping. Different models of fluid flow and hydrocarbon entrapments were constructed for the Mishrif Formation in (Rumaila South RU, Rumaila North R, West Qurna WQ, Majnon MJ, and ZubairZB) oilfields in Basra, southern Iraq. The...

In Iraq, vast deposits of kaolinite-rich clay occur in several geological formations across western and southern regions. These clays, typically rich in alumina and formed through natural weathering processes, are largely untapped for modern industrial use. Despite their latent potential, the lack of beneficiation and transformation infrastructure...

The consistency of our values and perceptions are reinforced daily by the media we consume. The way in which a piece of media is framed can entirely shift one’s perspective. In the case of villainization, the framing of a news article can push someone away from a cause and entirely dismiss it, or draw them in by capturing their sense of care. The m...

This research explores the impact of the globalization of architectural styles on local communities, focusing on whether these changes are beneficial or harmful. It argues that while globalized architecture—especially the international style—facilitates technological integration and sustainable practices, it often leads to the erosion of cultural i...

This study examines the role of agile marketing in enhancing marketing efficiency within the telecommunications sector, specifically focusing on Asia Cell in Baghdad, Iraq. Addressing a critical theoretical gap, this research explores key dimensions of agile marketing—including iterative experimentation, cost efficiency in core operations, and enha...

The present study aims to determine secondary school students' awareness of the psychosocial consequences of Internet addiction and to investigate differences in the level of awareness based on students' sociodemographic characteristics (Sex, grade level, number of family members, parent's marital status, education and occupation of the parents, an...

Purpose This study aimed to assess the medical care strategies for primary Hypertension in Iraqi adults through a hospital-based problem-oriented plan to improve patient outcomes by identifying and addressing medical problems. Methodology This cross-sectional study was conducted in a hospital setting of Iraqi adults diagnosed with primary hyperten...

This study investigates the factors affecting implementation and perceived changes in the New Social Studies Curriculum across Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Duhok regions in Iraq. Through semi-structured interviews with twenty social studies teachers, the research identifies and analyzes key implementation factors including resource availability, time c...

Farmers in the north part of Iraq still practice traditional ways in agriculture, and often perform in multi passes for land preparation with heavy tools generating hardpanning which can become a serious problem.One of the most effective and fast methods to control plough pan is subsoiler. Subsoiling is one of the most agricultural operations that...

The present study aimed to evaluate the physiological and root morphological responses of six distinct snake melon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus) genotypes under varying salinity levels. The experiment was implemented in a hydroponic system within climate-controlled environment in 2024 growth season. Six genotypes (Badem, Ege, Iraq 1, Iraq 2, Kerem,...

This study investigates the phonological process of contextual elision in Spoken Iraqi Arabic (SIA) in terms of Optimality Theory (OT) by Prince & Smolensky (1993).The variety examined in this study is used in the southern part of Iraq since it is the native dialect of the researcher.The analysis of the data concludes that all the types of contextu...

The experiment was conducted in the lath house covered by saran belonging to the preparatory school of agriculture in Abu Gharaq for the spring season 2022/2023. The Hibiscus tiliaceus plant is considered the latest type of tree to have spread recently in Iraq, due to its ability to withstand harsh environmental conditions and the beauty of its lar...

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The prevailing practice in Iraq and the Middle East involves the flaring of gas into the atmosphere by a majority of oil and gas industries. This practice, however, is causing significant harm to the environment, personnel, and equipment. Consequently, determining the optimal location for the flare stack within an oil field has become a primary con...

The topic of education is one of the most important economic topics that are prominent and greatly influential on economic growth and economic stability, given the importance of this variable on the level of household income, which represents two crucial elements in the foundations of economic welfare in any society. The problem of the study includ...

World War II was a landmark in the development and deployment of technologies of mass destruction associated with air power, notably the B-29 bomber, napalm and the atomic bomb. An estimated 50 to 70 million people lay dead in its wake. In a sharp reversal of the pattern of World War I and of most earlier wars, a substantial majority of the dead we...

The shutdown of the DPRK plutonium reactor, the New York Times noted angrily recently, shows that ‘real nonproliferation diplomacy can produce real results’ as long as it is stripped of ‘empty, ideological posturing’. The target of the Times' fulminations was not, as is usually the case, and as it will probably be again tomorrow, the government in...

By drawing attention to Iraq and the obvious role oil plays in US policy today, the George W Bush-Dick Cheney administration has done just that: it has drawn the world's energy-deficit powers’ attention firmly to the strategic battle over energy, and especially oil. This is already having consequences for the global economy in terms of US$75-a-barr...

Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 18 January 2007. Good afternoon, Senator Biden, and members of the committee. It is a grave responsibility to testify before you today because the issue, the war in Iraq, is of such monumental importance.

SEONGNAM, South Korea – The image of a South Korean hostage, Kim Sun Il, blindfolded and kneeling at gunpoint before his death in Iraq last week was a chillingly familiar one for us back in his homeland – despite the orange jumpsuit, the masked faces and the foreign tongue.

[This posting consists of a two part article by Wall Street Journal Correspondent Jess Bravin on the rights, and abuses of those rights, of POWs under the Japanese in World War II and under the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, and the pertinent legal and criminal issues. The analogy should be a chilling one for a nation that...

The essayist Okabe Itsuko (1923-2008) readied herself for death throughout her life and, when it came in the early morning hours of April 29, with her died an independent woman's voice of conscience for postwar Japan. The translation which follows is of an address she gave at the annual service in memory of “all the war dead” held by Higashi Hongan...

As the United States gears up for an attack on Iran, one thing is certain: the Bush administration will never mention oil as a reason for going to war. As in the case of Iraq, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will be cited as the principal justification for an American assault. “We will not tolerate the construction of a nuclear weapon [by Iran],”...

BEIRUT – The dramatic abduction of three Japanese civilians in Iraq – hostage bargaining chips – is reverberating throughout Japan, casting a long shadow over the future of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Iraq policy of dispatching troops on a humanitarian mission to help the United States there. It evokes memories of hostage-taking during...

Investigating how English language instruction is viewed and approached in Iraqi universities is the aim of this study. It is a common misconception among most students that learning English is hard, tedious, and useless for speaking the language fluently. Moreover, most teachers deal with the English language like any other science in the teaching...

In this interview, Wang Jisi, Dean of International Studies at Beijing University and a leading Chinese specialist on international relations, tackles the question of the end of US hegemony and US-China relations. The interview, conducted prior to the October financial pandemic in the US and globally, and prior to the election of Barack Obama as pr...

On April 1st, journalists from the Okinawa Times and the Ryukyu Shimpo were stunned to learn that they would not be allowed to participate with other media covering the return of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit from Iraq. With a combined circulation of over 400,000 catering to a population of 1.3 million people, the newspapers believed they had...

At a time when the Iraq war continues to be a defining issue on the American scene, it is ironic that the most powerful and uncompromising documentary on the subject remains almost entirely unknown and unseen in this country. It took Japanese filmmaker Watai Takeharu a year and a half to film more than 123 hours of footage in Iraq, which he managed...

With a proud high-heel clatter not becoming a military runway, she rushes forward, followed by her children with slightly shy looks on their faces. A pilot in flight suit awaits them, arms spread. Embraces, kisses, tears. …

The United States needs to keep the focus on al-Qaida while targeting Iran. It isn't easy. There's no escaping Iraq. Two incidents in recent days bear heavily on the unending conflict in that country. More broadly, they reveal how the United States administration's definition of its "war on terror" (or “long war”) reflects entrapment in a way of th...

George and Junichiro, two great buddies (if the Japanese media is to be believed) meet again, on 15 and 16 November, in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto. Since Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro is one of the dwindling band of ever-faithful Bush supporters, and since officials on both sides have been working hard to clear away all possible o...

In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while U.S. soldiers stood by smiling. As this scandal grabbed headlines around the globe, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that the abuses were “perpetrated by a small number of U.S....

[This is the second article posted on the consequences of weapons, including nuclear weapons, proliferation, for contemporary warfare. It follows Gabriel Kolko's The Great Equalizer. Lessons From Iraq and Lebanon.] The events of September 2001 disproved the assumption that only a state could make war on another state. Now Hezbollah's confrontation...

[As Japan and South Korea strengthen and expand the scope of their subordinate security relations with the United States, in China's shadow other moves are afoot across the Asia Pacific. Here Paul Kelly assesses the deepening Japan-Australia security bond that grows in part from their engagement in support of US war aims in Iraq.] John Howard has l...

Fresh from a serious setback in Iran, where it lost its controlling stake in the huge Azadegan oilfield, Japan has launched diplomatic efforts in earnest to secure petroleum in neighboring Iraq. Recently, Tokyo invited Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to Japan and they issued a joint communique pledging Japanese assistance for improvements...

This is the first of a two article series on developmental and cultural nationalism. The articles by Radhika Desai and Laura Hein are both substantially excerpted versions of essays that form part of a special issue of Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2008, pp 397 – 428. Other essays in the collection discuss China, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri L...

In a New York Times op-ed following the public's rejection of president Barack Obama's call for air strikes on Syria, Michael Ignatieff, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and former leader of the Canadian liberal party, sought to reaffirm the doctrine of humanitarian intervention, stating that while the public had become weary over the fail...

This study aims to assess the radioactive concentration of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in elected oil and gas facilities in Maysan / southern of Iraq (Al-Bazerkan and Al-Fakkah oil sites) of selected of produced water samples. The radioactivity characterization of the oil sites included laboratory measurements and analysis of t...

It is often said that 9/11 has changed the world. Certainly, the world being swayed by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of that event appears to prove the saying correct. But as far as the basic structure of today's international politics is concerned, the world underwent a drastic change when the Cold War ended. 9/11 served as a cataly...

As American troops became bogged down first in Iraq and then Afghanistan, a key component of U.S. strategy was to build up local police and security forces in an attempt to establish law and order. This approach is consistent with practices honed over more than a century in developing nations within the expanding orbit of American global power. Fro...

The diary of Victor Klemperer, who had repeated tragic experiences in the 1930s as a German Jew, provides a valuable record of that epoch. In the diary he frequently asks why “extreme nationalism” has become so rampant in Germany and some other countries at a time when “modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances.” Klemperer remained basic...

On October 31, 2008, General Tamogami Toshio, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force [ASDF] Chief of Staff was abruptly dismissed from his post in the Defense Ministry, but allowed to retire with his full pension rather than be summarily fired. At a press conference several months earlier, Tamogami, who had also been the superintendent of the SDF Joint Sta...

This review provides a comprehensive overview of heavy metal and lead analysis in environmental, drug, cosmetic, and food pollution samples, focusing on research conducted in Iraq. The explore of the co-occurrence of heavy metals and analytical chemistry techniques in published studies over the last ten years was achieved by using bibliometric anal...

From a river engineering perspective, sand bars are often problematic due to their tendency to cause bank erosion and sedimentation, which can obstruct navigation and elevate flood risks. This study investigates the morphological changes that occur downstream of the Al-Kut Barrage (Tigris River in Al-Kut City, Wasit Governorate, Iraq), where variat...

On December 8, 2005 Prime Minister Koizumi announced that Japan's Self-Defense Forces would remain for another year in Samawa in support of the US war in Iraq. Their mission: to provide “reconstruction and humanitarian assistance”. What has the 500 person SDF mission accomplished and at what cost? How have local people responded to its presence?

On May 23, 1988, in Arlington, Texas, Bell Helicopter unveiled with much fanfare a new combo-aircraft; a fixed-wing plane that could climb and hover like a helicopter, but also rotate its giant propellers forward and fly like an airplane. On that day, Peter Van Sant, then correspondent for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, called the plane a “revol...

The demolition of a French empire at Dien Bien Phu is inspiration to a Taliban aiming to erode the resolve of the United States and its allies, writes Paul Rogers. There have been many suggestions among media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that ended so humil...

Like the Gulf War of 1991, the Iraq War of 2003 sent tremors through Japan's foreign policy establishment in the face of widespread Japanese opposition to the U.S. invasion, and particularly to U.S. invasion in the absence of an authorizing U.N. resolution. This article, written on the eve of invasion, explores the Japanese government decision to s...

The Okinawa Friday Assembly is an informal group several score strong of Americans, Okinawans, and other Japanese that has held a weekly anti-war rally in front of the U.S. Consul General in Naha, Okinawa since the fall of 2001. When the first peace delegation from Okinawa visited Iraq in early 2003, members of the group held a hunger strike and vi...

The US global “empire of bases” has been well analyzed by Chalmers Johnson, especially in his Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, 2006. The complex of bases in Okinawa, ever since the islands fell into US hands in 1945, were central to the 20th century wars in Asia from Korea and Vietnam to the Gulf and Iraq. Okinawa was (and is) in th...

Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. “The cities are the problem,” he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as director of the Joint Urban Operations Office at U.S. Joint Forces Command. He sees the war in the streets of Iraq's cities as the prototype fo...

The U.S. government has filed a protest over Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio's remarks last week criticizing President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, diplomatic sources said Saturday.

“How we defend our sovereignty, our citizens and our interests – and our success in doing so – shapes the future of our nation.” The opening words of Brendan Nelson's Preface to the 2007 Defence Update are the most accurate of all those in this seriously flawed document - though quite likely not as Nelson had in mind when he wrote them. The Defence...

It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with. The excuse for bypassing normal legi...

This article assesses the significance of China's recently announced investments in large copper and oil development in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively, with potential significance not only for development and peace in the two war-torn nations, but also for China's global role and the US-China relationship. With foreign and domestic investment in...

A government-sponsored bill to send the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq to take part in postwar reconstruction cleared the Lower House last week. There is little doubt this legislation is a demonstration by Japan of its willing cooperation with the U.S. global strategy.