2026-05-21 Transcription of Video from X.com

A comment on Mnt Goat’s Latest Newsletter links to this video on X. Iraqi talking heads discussing 1:1 reval. I desperately wanted to know what was being said! So, I had it transcribed (into Arabic text) and then had the transcribed text translated to English. This PDF is the result. I finally figured out how […]

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2025-02-13

Major news. US to cease shipping physical dollars to Iraq. See(mustaqila-com) America stops the dollar transfer to Iraq(APNews.com) Targeting Iran, US tightens Iraq’s dollar flow, causing pain Analysis and discussion at today’s MntGoat newsletter

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2023-07-16

MntGoat’s latest on July 13, 2023 is a mixed bag, optimistic and pessimistic. It seemed like the RV was all but in the bag, awaiting the inevitable project to delete the zeros, but something’s happened to delay it. We know the reinstatement is planned or should I say was planned. The project to delete the zeros was […]

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2023-04-19

MntGoat has been remarkably optimistic in her last 3 or 4 newsletters. https://mntgoatnewsusa.com/latest-mnt-goat-newsletter/ A point of confusion is her repeated assertion that the dinar-dollar rate is 1000:1 when the CBI’s site still says 1310:1. I firmly believe that the plan is to soon go to 1000:1 then revalue and forex shortly after; at 1000:1 revaluing […]

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2022-06-18

It was a topsy-turvy week. Thursday, MntGoat posted that she had a great deal of interesting news but she wasn’t going to share it with us because it seemed that none of us cared enough about the amount of work she puts into her newsletters. She didn’t feel appreciated. She was considering dropping the newsletter […]

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2022-05-11 New MG Link

MntGoat posted today but the old link doesn’t get you to the newest post anymore. She’s added a new “page” under her domain. Here’s the new link.

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2022-05-08

I can see by the surge in visitors to this site that MntGoat hasn’t posted in a few days. Her blog is here. In years past early May has seen her very busy with personal and community/cultural affairs; I imagine that is the case this year as Covid restrictions are lessened. The election drama continues […]

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2021-07-31 Update

Hi All! Greetings to all the new sign-ups, we appreciate your interest! Please, everyone, feel free to chime in with commentary on the material being presented. Comments on this site are moderated but the bar is pretty low: as long as your post does not appear to be gibberish spam or a link to a […]

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2021-07-01

This opinion piece, “Biden can checkmate Iranian influence in Iraq“, discusses water+electricity as well as Kadhimi’s apparent pivot toward Iran in the context of the tense relationship between Iraqi and Iranian Shi’ites. It concludes: Perhaps it is time to recognize that the key to delegitimizing and defeating Iran’s militias in Iraq is through not only […]

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