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Daily Links — Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Wednesday's desk leans hard on Kurdistan and Baghdad: an adviser to Barzani says the U.S. pullout from Kurdistan is part of an agreed plan, the Region's president is headed to Baghdad to meet PM al-Zaidi, and the KRG is tying its ASYCUDA customs rollout to formalizing the border — while al-Zaidi pushes pre-auditing contracts before they're signed and a fresh forecast warns of a liquidity gap in the back half of 2026. Overseas, Brent bounced after the Houthis sank a vessel off Yemen, and a draft U.S.–Oman deal could leave Iran with more Hormuz leverage than before the war. Add a growing COVID reckoning at home. Here's everything on the desk.
Iraq & the Dinar
- Barzani's adviser: the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Kurdistan is part of an agreed plan — Baghdad Today
- Kurdistan Region president heads to Baghdad to meet al-Zaidi — Baghdad Today
- KRG links ASYCUDA customs deployment to border formalization — Channel 8
- Al-Zaidi directs the National Audit Bureau to pre-audit contracts before they're signed — Shafaq News
- Liquidity-gap forecast for the second half of 2026 — Economy News
Money & Markets
Around the World
- Iran set to emerge with more Hormuz leverage than before the war under a draft U.S.–Oman deal — ZeroHedge
- New signals point to another possible migrant surge against Ceuta — ZeroHedge
The COVID Reckoning
- “This is going to surprise some people”: a leading Biden COVID-19 figure embraces the lab-leak theory — Jonathan Turley
- Fauci's time is up… — Modernity
- Americans know they've been lied to about the CV19 vax — Tom Haviland — USAWatchdog
Home Front
- Progressive El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic Senate primary — The Epoch Times
- Ranchers' hands tied as California wolf attacks grow — The Epoch Times
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