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 alfied on July 20, 2008
Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008
CAIRO – The Arab League on Saturday slammed the International Criminal Court’s “unbalanced” prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, saying Sudan’s courts should judge alleged Darfur war crimes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2008
This, indeed, looks like the new Obama foreign as we seeit already unfolding under Bush. But, it has to said that it looks like utter fantasy, a wish list of targets from an ailing hegemon which looks destined to be checked at every stage by the diplomacy of Russia, South America, Iran, China and Africa; in short, by the movement of emerging and reemerging nations given such stimulus by US/UK aggression. Already, the latter are faltering in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Kosovo and Burma: the game is just too transparent. The shift is, after all, the result of military defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, from which the allies are retreating whilst sounding the charge. We can expect retreat to turn into a rout over the next year as the US/UK financial system implodes and all and sundry jump ship leaving the oligarchy high and dry.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008
This is a nice summary of the Obama school of foreign policy thinking, ommiting only the anti-Russian dimension.This policy seems already to be mainstream. Thus, in addition to the ongoing provocations in Burma, Zimbabwe and Kosovo, we have as Bhadrakumar puts it:
‘The strong possibility.. that the Bush administration will press the pedal on multiple fronts on the Eurasian geopolitical landscape and create a fait accompli of US-Russian mutual antagonism for Senator Barack Obama, should he become president.“
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military’s growing role in rebuilding war-battered nations has fueled concerns about a “creeping militarization” of American foreign policy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
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Posted by smeddum on July 19, 2008
WASHINGTON — The United States and Iraq have agreed to a “general time horizon” for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for troop withdrawals. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
| A day conference Saturday 19 July, London United Reformed Church Programme 10:30–11:00: Registration 11:00–13:00: Why we need justice for Iraq
13:00–13:45: Lunch 13:45–15:15: Workshops Workshop 1: Stopping the corporate carve-up
Workshop 2: The humanitarian crisis
Workshop 3: War crimes: ending impunity
15:15–15:30: Break 15:30–17:00: The way forward: Iraq solidarity for the long-term
17:00: Ends Entry by donation (suggested amount: £7/£5 unwaged) For more information download the event leaflet or visit the Justice for Iraq blog at: www.justiceforiraq.net. Justice for Iraq Facebook group >> Justice for Iraq will pressure Iraq’s occupiers to:
These demands do not represent a complete or final list. This campaign is in the process of emerging and we are reaching out to build a network of organisations and individuals who share a similar goal. Join us on 19th July to be a part of debating, building and launching this campaign. |
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
John Nichols
13th July, 2008
See also: Cynthia McKinney takes on Donald Rumsfeld
The Green Party has made a good deal of history this weekend.
The party has nominated a former member of Congress for the presidency, a coup for the party that itself has yet to elect a U.S. representative or senator.
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Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2008
Watch out for this as the new flashpoint as an Obama presidency brings new heights to US-Russian tensions.
Click here for more background
17th July, 2008
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Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2008
Opinion & Analysis
July 17, 2008
The Herald
LAST week, the world was treated to yet another display of the kind of supreme arrogance that has characterised the West’s engagement of Zimbabwe since the start of the Land Reform Programme. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2008
Ewen MacAskil
16th July, 2008
The US is planning to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years, a remarkable turnaround in policy by president George Bush who has pursued a hawkish approach to Iran throughout his time in office.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2008
IRNA
14th July,2008
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday predicted end of the US empire saying that the world countries should get ready for a situation when the US hegemony perishes.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2008
Tom Engelhardt
15th July, 2008
It was a tribal affair. Against a picture-perfect sunset, before a beige-colored cross and an altar made of the very Texas limestone that was also used to build her family’s “ranch”, veil-less in an Oscar de la Renta gown, the 26-year-old bride said her vows. More than 200 members of her extended family and friends were on hand, as well as the 14 women in her “house party”, who were dressed “in seven different styles of knee-length dresses in seven different colors that match[ed] the palette of … wildflowers – blues, greens, lavenders and pinky reds”.
Afterwards, in a white tent set in a grove of trees and illuminated by strings of lights, the father of the bride, George W Bush, danced with his daughter to the strains of You Are So Beautiful. The media were kept at arm’s length and the vows were private, but undoubtedly they included the phrase “till death do us part”.
That was early May of this year. Less than two months later, halfway across the world, another tribal affair was underway. The age of the bride involved is unknown to us, as is her name. No reporters were clamoring to get to her section of the mountainous backcountry of Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. We know almost nothing about her circumstances, except that she was on her way to a nearby village, evidently early in the morning, among a party 70-90 strong, mostly women, “escorting the bride to meet her groom as local tradition dictates”.
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