Justin Sirois's Blog, page 72
January 9, 2012
Western oil firms remain as US exits Iraq, Dahr Jamail
Baghdad, Iraq - While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain.
On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its pursuit of a massive gas deal in southern Iraq, the oil giant had its contract signed for a $17bn flared gas deal.
Three days later, the US-based energy firm Emerson submitted a bid for a contract to operate at Iraq's giant Zubair oil field, which reportedly holds some eight...
January 6, 2012
Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege
[Al Jazeera] Dahr Jamail
Fallujah, Iraq - While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital...
Fallujah, Iraq - While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital...
January 5, 2012
Falcons give aways!
If enough people like my FB post about extending this giveaway, I'll continue it for a few days. 
updated Baker Awards profile
9 more days to nominate yourselves, Baltimore artist, writers, and musicians. I'd love to see more literary people on this great resource. My offer still stands; if anyone needs help on refining their page, let me know. http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nominations/view/justin%20sirois/
Ethel (Laliberte) Sirois in black face
Yes, this photo was taken during a different time and era (1930's?), but this is the photograph my aunt chose to display, at a kid's eye level, at Ethel (Laliberte) Sirois's wake. A ten-yer-old 2nd couson of mine pointed it out to me. Classy right? I don't fault him at all, just whoever constructed the display. So, this is my grandma in black face, the same woman who told family members she "hopes I never have children" and apparently said some other colorful things I'll never know about.
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