Author: Idrees Ahmad
I am a Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling and a former research fellow at the University of Denver’s Center for Middle East Studies. I am the author of The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). I write for The Observer, The Nation, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, Dissent, The National, VICE News, Huffington Post, In These Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung (TAZ), Adbusters, Guernica, London Review of Books (Blog), The New Arab, Bella Caledonia, Asia Times, IPS News, Medium, Political Insight, The Drouth, Canadian Dimension, Tanqeed, Variant, etc. I have appeared as an on-air analyst on Al Jazeera, the BBC, TRT World, RAI TV, Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon, Alternative Radio with David Barsamian and several Pacifica Radio channels.
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There is a person in Canada named Wiebo Ludwig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiebo_Ludwig
Ludwig accuses the oil/gas industry of poisoning his family and farm, and being responsible for his daughter’s miscarriages, through its attempts to extract tox ic sour gas from the Peace River region of Alberta.
About a week ago, I viewed this particular video.
The battle for Kirkuk
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2010/02/2010224192645216199.html
The opening scene of the video shoed numerous flaming gas fires and it reminded me of Wiebo Ludwig.
Maybe these birth defects are because of increased oil/gas projects?
Just thinkin’
Calm