Business Insider
5th February, 2011
A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people “multiple platoons” are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.
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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
Senior US marine says “multiple platoons” are headed to Egypt
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2011
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Nasrallah exposes Israel’s Egypt plot
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2011
8th February, 2011
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has revealed to the Arab and Islamic world another Israeli “scenario” regarding the Egyptian revolution.
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‘Egypt Revolution to change the world’
Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2011
7th February, 2011
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the Egyptian Revolution will leave an impact on all regional and global developments.
“It has always been said that Egypt is the mother of the world. This is right and you (Egyptians) who are there, you are the great people who can, with your will and solidarity, change the face of the world,” Nasrallah said in a speech on Monday.
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Counter-revolution brought to you by …
Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2011
Pepe Escobar
8th February
It will be a long, winding, treacherous and perhaps bloody road before the popular Egyptian revolution even dreams of approaching the post-Suharto Indonesian model (the largest, most plural democracy in a Muslim-majority country) or the currentTurkish model (also sanctioned at the ballot box).
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US military chief acknowledges surprised by events in Egypt
Posted by seumasach on February 6, 2011
We’ve got our military ready should any kind of response or support be required and that isn’t the case right now,’ Mullen said Thursday night on the Daily Show.
4th February, 2011
Washington – The top US military officer has acknowledged the United States was caught off guard by the uprising in Egypt and that the armed forces are closely monitoring developments in the country and region.
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Israeli spy arrest in Egypt points to high stakes for Washington and Tel Aviv
Posted by seumasach on February 5, 2011
Finian Cunningham
5th February, 2011
An amateur video showing the arrest in Egypt of an alleged spy belonging to the Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, the Sayeret Matkal, indicates how worried Tel Aviv is by the turmoil engulfing the Mubarak regime and suggests that attempts are underway by outside forces to destabilise the popular revolution.
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Dead men walking, with license to kill
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2011
Pepe Escobar
4th february, 2011
So Pharaoh Mubarak had to prove once again he’s a real superstar of the “war on terror”. Old habits die hard. He’s now unleashing terror against his own people.
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‘US, Israel tremble in boots over Egypt’
Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2011
2nd February, 2011
Egyptian protests continue across the country as pro-Mubarak allies Israel and the United States struggle to determine the outcome of Egypt’s popular uprising.
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The Brotherhood factor
Posted by seumasach on February 1, 2011
Pepe Escobar
2nd February, 2011
A million marching in the streets of Cairo this Tuesday, a million more marching towards the Egyptian presidential palace in Heliopolis in the upcoming “Friday of Departure”. The top graffiti – also scrawled on khaki-colored US Abrams tanks – as well as the top slogan, remains “the people want the system to fall”. The army seems to have chosen its side, tacitly affirming it “will not resort to use of force against our great people”.
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CrossTalk: Times of Uprisings?
Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2011
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US wants to clip Karzai’s wings
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2011
“Karzai is banking on a pan-Afghan alliance to support his audacious plan to reconcile the Taliban, and the US is using the ethnic card to unravel Karzai’s alliance system.”
“Washington finds Karzai increasingly acting as an Afghan nationalist rather than as a US surrogate.”
“Meanwhile, Karzai is making sustained efforts to develop ties with Iran and Russia, including military cooperation, so as to reduce his dependence on the US by the 2014 timeline. Moscow has proposed a key role for Kabul in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”
“Washington is negotiating a new Status of Forces Agreement with Kabul but Karzai is resisting the US plan to keep permanent military bases.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
25th January, 2011
The United States’ proxy war against Afghan President Hamid Karzai has taken a vicious turn, undermining the tenuous political equations in the country. Washington is displeased with Karzai’s moves to accelerate reconciliation with the Taliban, while his pitch for a regional initiative and his agenda of a multi-vector foreign policy challenge US regional strategies.
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