Pepe Escobar
21st June, 2011
Forget about the Hollywood Transformer franchise; as facts on the ground go, the ultimate transformer in real life is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
NATO, the ultimate transformer
Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2011
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Why Karzai lashed out at the US
Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2011
Anglo-American power is now hemorrhaging on all fronts, the attack on Libya having provoking a deep reaction. Karzai is meant to be their man, but is proving his own man and engaging with the American’s enemies. With a retreat from empire on the order of the day the total absence of sound and sane leadership in Anglo-American is the outstanding feature of the current reality. Will impending Anglo-American economic collapse focus our minds and force a rethink or will we simply sink into greater incoherence and violence, the lost, violent souls of Elliot’s “The Hollow Men”.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st June, 2011
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai sprang a surprise on Saturday by affirming for the first time publicly that the “United States is involved in peace talks with the Taliban”. The statement comes against the backdrop of growing tensions over Washington’s efforts to get him to agree to a strategic partnership agreement allowing permanent American and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military bases.
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NATO admits killing civilians
Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2011
Jason Ditz
19th June, 2011
NATO has admitted a missile strike hit a civilian home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli today, killing a number of civilians including at least two toddlers. Though far from the first strike to kill civilians in the Libyan War, it is the first that NATO officials have admitted to.
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German defense minister rips NATO’s military mission in Libya
Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2011
18th June, 2011
Talking to the Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, the minister whose
country is not part of the western military alliance’s war in Libya, said NATO’s
planning of the whole mission in the North African state was short-sighted.
‘Of course, when you start something, you always have to know, how long you can sweat it out,’ de Maziere was quoted saying.
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Gaddafi in talks with Libya’s rebels
Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2011
17th June, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is in direct talks with Libya’s rebels, a Russian envoy has indicated, as the strongman’s son said the way out of a months-long conflict is the staging of elections.
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SCO steps out of Central Asia
Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th June, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) marked its 10th anniversary at the summit meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. Anniversaries divisible by five or 10 are almost sacrosanct occasions in international politics – especially for Central Asian countries and the adjacent capitals of Moscow and Beijing that have been weaned on the formalism of Marxism-Leninism. Much expectation was placed on the occasion at Astana.
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Phantom of the Gaddafi opera
Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
Gamal Nkrumah
9-15th June, 2011
Day after day, the night sky is shattered by the blinding flash of NATO firepower in the playing out of a surreal drama scripted in hell. Hundreds of innocent civilians ripped apart by NATO’s attack helicopters, so-called Apaches, in yet another defilement of First Nation peoples. It’s almost like they hope Libyans would just disappear as did the Native Americans.
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Nature & politics: tinpot bombadiers
Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
16th June, 2011
The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed this past March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO’s eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press coverage, it has rapidly mutated into an overt bid to destroy Qaddafi’s regime, specifically to murder Qaddafi, by missile or bombardment, with land-based teams of Special Force assassins doubtless deployed in the desert, assigned the same task.
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US missile shield plans shot down by Prague
Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
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Shanghai bloc calls for Libya cease-fire
Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) called on Wednesday for a cease-fire in Libya, and urged all sides to strictly abide by UN Security Council resolutions.
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Le plan de destabilisation de la Syrie
Posted by seumasach on June 15, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
14th June, 2011
La tentative de renversement du gouvernement syrien ressemble par bien des points à ce qui a été entrepris en Libye, cependant les résultats sont forts différents en raison de particularités sociales et politiques. Le projet de casser simultanément ces deux États avait été énoncé le 6 mai 2002 par John Bolton alors qu’il était sous-secrétaire d’État de l’administration Bush, sa mise en œuvre par l’administration Obama 9 ans plus tard, dans le contexte du réveil arabe, ne va pas sans problèmes. Read the rest of this entry »
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