Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2013
30th January, 2013
In 17 March 2011, by resolution 1973, the Security Council authorized NATO to intervene “civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2013
29th January, 2013
Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
29th January, 2013
The involvement of China in the decade-long war on terror in Afghanistan by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been virtually nil. This was so despite the Western alliance’s repeated urgings on Beijing to raise its head above the parapet and become an active participant.
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Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2013
25th January, 2013
That’s from the fevered imagination of Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and yes, that would be Turkey he’s talking about.
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Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2013
Ghaleb Kandil
21st January, 2013
Western reports and press articles emphasize the rout of terrorist gangs in Syria and divisions that undermine their ranks. At the same time, the political Syrian opposition created by the West is bankrupt.
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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
21st January, 2013
A long time in the making and announced by François Hollande six months in advance, the French intervention in Mali was portrayed as an emergency decision in response to dramatic developments. This scheme aims not only at seizing Mali’s gold and uranium, but more especially at paving the way for the destabilization of Algeria.
Appetite comes with eating“, says the proverb. After having re-colonised the Ivory Coast and Libya, then having attempted to get a hold on Syria, France is now setting its sights on Mali in order to take Algeria from behind.
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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2013
There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark- but things are looking up! How anomalous and un-NATO- like for them not to plunge into a new bombing campaign.
NATO can’t be the world’s policeman, travelling from country to country, solving all the problems.
Wonderful news!
18th January, 2013
Against the backdrop of an unfolding hostage drama in Algeria, euronews spoke to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2013
Stephen Gowans
21st January, 2013
Always on hand when needed, cameleontic jihadists serve as enemies in Mali, friends in Syria, and air force in Libya.
In today’s New York Times, Steven Erlanger justifies the French intervention in Mali on these grounds:
• It responds to “a direct request from a legitimate government.”
• It combats “the spread of radical Islamists, some of them foreign jihadists, strongly connected to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
Meanwhile, back in the Benighted Isle the government strives to keep anti-Russian enmity alive. We’ve had our final “we will rule the world” flourish, and now we’re sulking.
19th January, 2013
Three thousand British sailors who braved arctic conditions and enemy bombers to deliver vital supplies to the Eastern Front during WWII have been denied medals for bravery offered by Russia for their outstanding service.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
President Obama effectively announces the end of the Syria destabilisation campaign
19th January, 2013
Killing Osama bin Laden (or rather, signing off on the ongoing military operation that killed him) might have given Barack Obama a great electoral pitch, but what exactly did it accomplish for the security of the United States and its interests? Al-Qaeda is back – big time.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
Talking about the role of the US in the Syrian crisis, al-Muallem stressed that “if the US wanted the violence in Syria to stop, it will stop.”
20th January, 2013
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says any discussion of the removal of President Bashar al-Assad in a future transitional government is “unacceptable.”
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