Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2014
Pepe Escobar
15th February, 2014
Just before noon on Feb. 16, 25 years ago, Lieut. Gen. Boris Gromov, top Soviet commander in Afghanistan, solemnly walked across the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya River into Uzbekistan. He uttered the words: “Our 9-year stay ends with this.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2014
Rather than rabble-rousing in Ukraine and throwing in their lot with the CIA and US lobby representatives the EU should concentrate on overcoming its own, notorious, democratic deficit.
10th February, 2014
The European Union has called for the formation of a new government in Ukraine, to be followed by free and fair presidential elections. But it stopped short Monday of calling for sanctions. Anti-government protests erupted in November after President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of signing a trade deal with the European Union.
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Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2014
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on H. Res. 447, a resolution supporting Ukraine‘s protesters in a move to swing the Eastern nation toward the West.
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Posted by seumasach on February 6, 2014
Follow the money! There is now an unstoppable momentum behind Iran’s reintegration into the “international community”. Amidst reports of an official Iranian presence at the next round of Geneva talks, Kerry is careful not to appear to eager to embrace America and Israel’s long term bogeyman and continues to talk with forked tongue.
5th February, 2014
AFP: A visit to Iran by a 116-strong delegation of French business figures is “a bet” on the future and not “business as usual”, France’s finance minister said Wednesday, brushing off US criticism of the trip.
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Posted by seumasach on February 5, 2014
Licensed Opposition Parties Stress Need for All National Opposition Forces to Be Represented in Geneva Conference
5th February, 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- Licensed national opposition parties held a press conference on Tuesday at Dama Rose Hotel in Damascus, in which they said that the absence of internal opposition from Geneva 2 conference was a weak point and deficiency that should be remedied.
The parties said that certain sides’ adoption of the Doha coalition as the sole representative of the opposition at the conference was the primary cause of the lack of results during the first stage of the conference, SANA reported.
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Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd February, 2014
The year is 1979. The streets of Tehran heaved with the passions let loose by the revolutionary fervor. Imam Khomeini had just arrived from Paris a few days ago and the ten-day run-up began leading to the momentous turning point on February 11 when the armed forces switched loyalty from the Shah to the revolutionaries. By tradition, February 1 is the day Iran celebrates the return of Imam Khomeini from exile and this year is the thirty-fifth anniversary of the revolution. There is much symbolism that the first tranche of the frozen assets of Iran amounting to $4.2 billion was deposited in the Swiss banks on last Friday the eve of ‘Ten-Day Dawn’ ceremonies of the Iranian Revolution.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
This raises the possibility of a new French intervention in Libya to combat the reviving nationalist movement there.
France’s top military officer warns of security ‘black hole’ in southern Libya
27th January, 2014
PARIS – France’s top military officer says he favours an international operation to battle a security “black hole” in southern Libya.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
26th January, 2014
MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) – Official Moscow supports a proposed alliance between the Syrian regime and moderate opposition against the Islamists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2014
Thierry Meyssan
27th January, 2013
The question of the Syrian opposition’s representation at the Geneva 2 Conference may seem incongruous now that the inaugural meeting in Montreux is already behind us. On the contrary, it remains the central issue. The National Coalition, who spoke before the cameras, has been abandoned by almost all its components and has lost its antennas in Syria. The sole purpose of its presence at the public session was to satisfy Saudi Arabia. It should now quickly give up its seat to other players.
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
In order to save appearances France are negotiating with a “B” team, rather as the UK did when they sent a delegation led by Jack Straw
25th January, 2014
Iran and France are to work together in a fresh joint effort to help resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria, a senior Iranian official says.
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