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
Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2011
Sami Moubayed
21st January, 2011
DAMASCUS – The year kicked off on a very rough note for Lebanese prime minister Saad al-Hariri. First, 11 ministers walked out on his government, embarrassingly ejecting him from office while Hariri was at the White House meeting with President Barack Obama.
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2011
Rannie Amiri
23rd July, 2010
A crackdown on Israeli spy rings operating in Lebanon has resulted in more than 70 arrests over the past 18 months. Included among them are four high-ranking Lebanese Army and General Security officers—one having spied for the Mossad since 1984.
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Posted by smeddum on January 16, 2011
They’re finally getting wise to the empire racket
One has only to look at today’s headlines at Antiwar.com to see the trend:
Another news story details the results of a survey which shows a dramatic turnabout, on the war: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 15, 2011
By Daily Mail Reporter
14th January 2011
A furious row has erupted in Whitehall after a former Kabul envoy claimed British commanders committed troops to war in Afghanistan because they feared cuts if they did not use them.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles said he had been told by the former head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, that if he did not re-deploy battlegroups coming free from Iraq he would lose them in a future defence review. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2011
14th January, 2011
Lebanese opposition groups have reportedly conditioned their support for Saad Hariri’s reinstatement as premier to dismissal of US-backed tribunal set-up to probe his father’s assassination.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
14th January, 2011
Le Liban est à nouveau sans gouvernement. Selon la presse occidentale, le Hezbollah exerce un chantage pour ne pas avoir à répondre de sa culpabilité dans l’assassinat de Rafik el-Hariri. En réalité, observe Thierry Meyssan, l’opposition libanaise (qui représente la majorité populaire mais est minoritaire à l’Assemblée) vient de faire échec à la machine infernale mise en place par Washington en vue de provoquer une confrontation générale au Proche-Orient.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2011
Washington is, in essence, making a virtue out of necessity, which is of course good politics almost always. Ideally, the US would have liked Pakistan to robustly supplement the US war effort. But the heart of the matter is that if and when intra-Afghan peace talks begin stemming from a regional initiative by Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey (and, perhaps, grudging Iranian acquiescence), the entire US position will cave in and the Obama administration will find itself in an absurd and untenable position of adamantly insisting on pursuing a war which neither the Afghan people nor the regional powers want.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th January, 2011
The unscheduled visit by United States Vice President Joe Biden to Islamabad this week underscores Washington’s embarrassment and anxiety that it stands excluded from a regional initiative on Afghan peace process that could be about to take off. The rapid sequence of events over the past fortnight has taken Washington by surprise.
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Posted by smeddum on January 9, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2011
Kim Myong Chol
7th January, 2011
“The captured crew members of the armed spy ship USS Pueblomust be brought to Pyongyang for a photo session. Photos of thePueblo crew members arriving with their hands raised should be sent worldwide to show for all to see that the Americans are captured red-handed violating our sovereign territorial waters.”
– Kim Jong-il, January 1968
“The South Korean puppet regime of LMB [South Korean President Lee Myung-bak] and its American wirepullers have blinked at our prompt merciless counter-strike to their reckless provocation. They are again going to play with fire despite the mounting global objections. This time only a wiser course of action is to refrain from military retaliation at their face-keeping show of force, unless our territorial integrity is in direct jeopardy. We instead use the drill to expose LMB and his American masters to the world as dangerous, trigger-happy warmongers. ”
– Kim Jong-eun, December 2010
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
6th January, 2011
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send an additional 1,400 marines to Afghanistan, the first series of which could begin arriving on the ground as early as mid January.
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