2026

Iraq…dollars still clear through a New York account Washington can throttle, its banks still fight for the correspondent lines that connect them to the world, and its central bank still works […]

This week every major armed faction in Iraq agreed to hand its weapons to the state, and Lebanon signed the identical deal on Hezbollah. One order, two capitals. An exception that […]

Reform in Iraq used to be measured in years, which delivered zilch.  Al-Zaidi has done more in 19 days than his predecessors managed in a decade.  And all of it is leading […]