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
The matchless Nelson Report has updated the news about the prospective appointment of Dennis Ross as Special Envoy for Iran, and the update is even more concerning than the original report. Chris Nelson apparently got hold of an internal memo from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy(WINEP) in which its director, Robert Satloff, outlines Ross’ much-expanded job description. It reads as if Ross will be a sort of Middle East “czar”. Here it is, as quoted in the Report:
Zimbabwe: New Govt by February Posted: Monday, January 5, 2009
By Political & Features Editor
January 05, 2009 Race and History
The Herald
PRESIDENT Mugabe is pressing ahead with the formation of a new Government with the full consent of Sadc following invitations extended to the opposition to join structures agreed upon in the broad-based agreement signed last year. Read the rest of this entry »
An Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a target in the Gaza Strip on the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday. Defence analysis group Jane’s said Monday that an Israeli military victory over Hamas is not possible and Israel has a week to 10 days to wrap up its attack to eradicate the Islamist group ruling Gaza (AP photo) Read the rest of this entry »
2008 will be remembered as a turning point in Russia’s relations with the West. It was a tumultuous year, with Kosovo, missiles in Europe and NATO’s seemingly relentless march eastward like thunderclouds gathering on Russia’s horizon, which finally burst 8 August over South Ossetia, bringing tragedy to Georgians, triumph and tragedy to Ossetians and Russians, as the Russian army stopped short of Tbilisi in their defence of the plucky Ossetians.
But electoral benefits will only come with military success and that seems most unlikely. What has undoubtedly been achieved by this invasion is to compromise Obama, to lock him in to the neo-con agenda of endless conflict in the Middle East at a moment when he showed clear signs, under his mentors Brzezinski and Soros, of wanting diplomacy in the Middle East with a view to refocusing US aggression against Russia and China. His agenda is in ruins and the US remains hitched to an Israel veering out of control.
Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.
South Asians will watch the year end in a pall of gloom. The region is fast getting sucked into the vortex of terrorism. The Afghan war has crossed the Khyber and is stealthily advancing towards the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains. Read the rest of this entry »
Mahmood Mamdani’s largely sympathetic analysis of the Mugabe government, “Lessons of Zimbabwe,” published in the December 4, 2008 London Review of Books, has been met with a spate of replies from progressive scholars who are incensed at the Ugandan academic throwing out the rule book to present an argument based on rigor and analysis, rather than on the accustomed elaboration of comfortable slogans and prejudices that has marked much progressive scholarship on Zimbabwe. Their criticism of Mamdani has been characterized by ad hominem assaults, arguments that either lack substance or sense, and the substitution of cynicism for scholarship. Read the rest of this entry »
In political contests the objective of each side is to discredit the opposition, and when that can’t be done, to silence it. This is done to prevent the opposition from persuading others to take its point of view. If one side can persuade others to its position, it can count on their support and possibly gain an advantage over the other side. Read the rest of this entry »
This interview is dated 21st October on youTube. Subsequent events appear to have confirmed much of Tarpley’s analysis: we have already had the Georgia War, the Mumbai bombings aimed, it would appear, to bring India into the US/UK orbit, a renewed campaign against Zimbabwe and , now, warnings against Russia for selling missiles to Iran as well as renewed efforts to establish US military bases in Central Asia. I had tended towards scepticism with regard to Tarpley’s analysis on the basis that this agenda is completely mad. I now bow to Tarpley’s superior insight: this agenda exists in spite of , or, even, because of, the fact that it is mad.
In this interview, conducted by Deep Journal before the 4 November elections, Webster Tarpley expounds on the topic of his recently published book “Obama, The Postmodern Coup,The Making of a Manchurian Candidate”. Does Obama represent a real change or is it the same old imperialism with cosmetic surgery?
