Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2011
Panic as US Warplanes Attack Southern Iraq
Two Days of Live Ammo Raids Have Locals Scared, Puzzled
Jason Ditz
20th July, 2011
The latest indication yet that the Obama Administration’s much vaunted “end” to the war in Iraq last year was entirely illusory, reports are pouring in from southern Iraq’s Maysan Province that US warplanes launched a number of live ammunition attacks just north of Amara.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
Lisa Karpova
21sy July, 2011
Part of the massive mainstream media campaign of lies and disinformation is the attempt to declare that Muammar Gaddafi is going to agree to go off somewhere into exile, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
John Glaser
20th July, 2011
The U.S. Navy is considering moving its Fifth Fleet from where it has long been stationed in Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Bahrain’s ruling al Khalifa family has beenviolently cracking down on pro-democracy protesters in recent months and rising allegations of systematic human rights violations are creating a public relations issue for the U.S., a longtime supporter and ally of the dictatorship.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
So there you have it: the so-called rebels have not taken Brega as widely trumpeted by desperate western media sources. It looks rather that they have suffered a defeat losing 60 fighters in the battle, a significant loss for what John Bolton describes as an insignificant force. Since Gaddafi is clearly winning and most of Libya has rallied round him, why should he step down? Only because of threats from NATO which are probably vacuous- the political will, the heart seems to have gone out the Atlanticist terror grouping.
21st July, 2011
Gaddafi insists he will neither step down nor flee the country he has led for four decades. With the Nato-led air campaign against Gaddafi’s forces entering its fifth month and the fighting in a stalemate, the international community is seeking exit strategies.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
There is no greater proof of the disastrous course of this war from a NATO point view than the fact that enemies of NATO such as ourselves are able to cite neo-cons like Bolton in defence of our case. His article is a futile rant against the inevitable ebbing of US power in the world.
But in the last four months, neither America nor its NATO allies have successfully identified and strengthened (quietly or otherwise), a truly significant cadre of pro-Western voices in Libya
This sums up the rebels: they are pro-Western but insignificant in terms of support from the Libyan people.
20th July, 2011
John R. Bolton, the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (from 2005 to 2006), is of counsel at Kirkland & Ellis and is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The opinions expressed here are his own —
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – With President Obama’s Libya policy staggering from one embarrassment to another, last week he and Secretary of State Clinton outdid themselves. They publicly welcomed Russia’s effort to insert itself as a mediator, an act of such strategic myopia that it must leave even Moscow’s leadership speechless.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
Within the context of the western press which has done so much to orchestrate a cacophony of lies around events in Libya, this is a remarkable recognition suggestive, not of a few rotten apples as Amnesty seems to want to imply, but sustained terror. The normally gung-ho Telegraph is showing disillusionment with this war, a reflection of just how disastrous it has been.
The headless corpse, the mass grave and worrying questions about Libya’s rebel army
21st July, 2011
The streaks of blood, smeared along the sides of this impromptu mass grave suggested a rushed operation, a hurried attempt to dispose of the victims.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
21st July, 2011
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says the Islamic Republic will not allow the UN special Rapporteur on human rights to enter the country.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2011
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
20th July, 2011
The Libyans have realized that they need to continue on a pan-African path and to follow a model of self-sufficiency. Many in Tripoli have also started thinking about the future. Old disputes and animosities may also be put aside with other global players that are opposed to U.S. hegemony and opposed to NATO.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
19th July, 2011
The participation by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the two-day conference on terrorism held at Tehran on June 25 was invested with political symbolism as a mark of displeasure towards the United States. But Zardari’s return to Tehran within three weeks on a second visit on Saturday unmistakably carried the stamp of Pakistan’s “strategic defiance” of the US.
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