Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2013
15th February, 2013
El Sur de Libia ha declarado que van a liberar el sur de los grupos armados internacionales para volver a dar seguridad a las familias. Representantes del sur de Libia han declarado que van a crear su propia policía, nuestra propia gente que nos de seguridad a nuestras familias. Vamos a iniciar una resistencia activa para devolver la paz y seguridad a nuestras familias.
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Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
14th February, 2013
An impression has formed lately that, as government-owned China Daily newspaper commented editorially last week, the prospects of a peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis are looking up.
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Posted by seumasach on February 13, 2013
30th January, 2013
Bradford West MP George Galloway responded to Prime Minister David Cameron’s refusal to answer a parliamentary question, by resorting to a cheap insult, by detailing the Arab tyrannies and puppet presidents Britain backs.
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
11th February, 2013
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th February, 2013
It was an extraordinary week in the politics of the Middle East and it ended appropriately by being rounded off with a reality check lest imaginations ran riot.
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Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2013
“Non, la guerre ce n’est pas la France”
Dominique de Villepin
Source : Le Journal du Dimanche (France)
10th February, 2013
Le Mali, pays ami, s’effondre. Les djihadistes avancent vers le sud, l’urgence est là.
Mais ne cédons pas au réflexe de la guerre pour la guerre. L’unanimisme des va-t-en-guerre, la précipitation apparente, le déjà-vu des arguments de la « guerre contre le terrorisme » m’inquiètent. Ce n’est pas la France. Tirons les leçons de la décennie des guerres perdues, en Afghanistan, en Irak, en Libye.
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Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
Churkin: US Announcement on Non-involvement in Arming Opposition in Syria Does Not Absolve it of Full Responsibility
10th February, 2013
NEW YORK/ANKARA, (SANA) – Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin stressed that the US announcement about not arming the opposition in Syria does not absolve of full responsibility for what is taking place in the country or the practices of the armed opposition.
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Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
10th February, 2013
The United States has neatly sidestepped the remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which apparently shut the door on direct talks between the two ancient adversaries. In sum, the Barack Obama administration ran a fine comb through Khamenei’s remarks and estimated that it is not at all as if the door for US-Iran talks has been slammed shut and the key thrown away.
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Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
James M.Wall
7th February, 2013
On one side are fierce Hagel critics such as McCain and Bill Kristol (left), Washington’s neocon-in-chief, who refuse to back down from their belief that the Iraq invasion of nearly a decade ago was just, and who continue to support the aggressive projection of U.S. military power abroad, especially in Syria.
On the other side are Obama, Hagel, and others who warned—quite presciently—of the pitfalls of that policy, and who are running away from military intervention abroad at full speed, even as they ratchet up the “small footprint” use of drones.
And now the neocon hawks fear that, like Shakespeare’s Richard III, there will be no place for them at all in Obama’s “weak, piping time of peace.” It is truly the winter of their discontent.
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Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
7th February, 2013
At the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Cairo, the leaders of Egypt, Turkey and Iran came together to discuss a recent political initiative made by Syrian opposition figure Moaz Al-Khatib to initiate dialogue between Syrian opposition and the regime, in search of a political deal to end almost two years of bloodshed in the country.
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Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
8th February, 2013
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has defended an agreement with Iran to establish a “truth commission” to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires
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