[Mb-civic] Christian Parenti replorts from Iraq from "The Nation"

[Barbara Siomos]

Dear Email Nation Subscriber,

With violence continuing to plague the country and pressure mounting against the US occupation, Nation correspondent Christian Parenti reports from northern Iraq, where political tensions and stakes are running high. In "The Question of Kurdistan," Parenti vividly demonstrates that the new conventional wisdom about Iraq--that it is poised to split apart into three semi-autonomous mini-statesquickly disintegrates on the ground.  Not only are Kurdistan's ties to Iraq remarkably strong, he writes, but its internal divisions are surprisingly fierce. And the Kurds, he reports, "landlocked and surrounded by enemies, are candid about not wishing to alienate their new patron, Uncle Sam."
Click here to read his full report - http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/parenti

Parenti, who traveled to Iraq four times as a correspondent for The Nation, is the author of THE FREEDOM: SHADOWS AND HALLUCINATIONS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ, just out in paperback from The New Press ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565849485/qid=1131483971/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4082234-2969719?v=glance&s=books ).  Ground-level, gritty, and acutely authentic, THE FREEDOM  delivers an unsanitized account of post-victory Iraq.  Parenti achieves what few writers have: He gives voice to both the Iraqi people and the U.S. soldiers living and dying together in an unstable nation.

Ah the freedom. Look we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom. Akeel, a 26-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

The perfect guide through occupied Iraq: Honest, compassionate, and pissed off. Naomi Klein

Buy THE FREEDOM today - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565849485/qid=1131487119/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4082234-2969719?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

And, readers in New York City are invited to attend "True Stories From Iraq: Christian Parenti, War Reporter, joins John Crawford, 'Accidental Soldier' and Iraq Veteran," an event at the Housing Works Bookstore Caf.
Tuesday, November 15 at 7:00 pm
126 Crosby Street (b/w Houston & Prince)
New York, NY 10012
Parenti and Crawford, author of THE LAST TRUE STORY ILL EVER TELL: AN ACCIDENTAL SOLDIERS ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN IRAQ (Riverhead Books) will share their perspectives on the continuing occupation and strife in Iraq.

And don't miss other new Nation online exclusives:

Sam Graham-Felsen probes Robert Greenwald on his motives for making a documentary about Wal-Mart's business practices.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/robert_greenwald_interview

Nicholas von Hoffman wonders whether high energy prices are the result of price-gouging or good old-fashioned capitalism?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/vonhoffman

John Nichols reports on why the GOP is trying to pull a Swift Boat Attack on Senate candidate Bernie Sanders.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=34486

And Dave Zirin explains how a former Argentinian soccer star became the nemesis of President Bush.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/zirin

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Mike Webb, The Nation

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