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Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
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 21, 2013
Stephen Gowans
Voltairenet
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
President Obama effectively announces the end of the Syria destabilisation campaign
Telegraph
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.”
PressTV
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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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2013
Allain Jules
18th January, 2013
Avec la fougue de la jeunesse, une logique réelle et sans langue de bois, le député indépendant belge Laurent Louis, 33 ans bientôt, s’oppose, seul contre tous les autres parlementaires, à la participation de la Belgique à la guerre au Mali. Il dénonce la manipulation internationale, le mensonge de la lutte anti-terroriste, le soutien des Occidentaux aux djihadistes en Libye, Tunisie et Syrie et dévoile les véritables raisons, selon lui, de cette opération militaire néo-colonialiste.
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2013
The shift in US policy is now clear. Realism has dictated that Assad will not be overthrown in Syria and that the euro will not collapse. By relaunching the “war on terror” against Al Qaeda Washington signals a diplomatic settlement in Syria and , at the same time, seeks to reforge its alliance with Europe and strengthen NATO.Hollande’s Mali campaign and Cameron’s travails over Europe both flow directly from Washington’s new stance.
Guardian
18th January, 2013
The outgoing US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, has said there must be a fundamental change in the transatlantic alliance, as the west faces challenging global threats, including that from al-Qaida terrorists.
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Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2013
SANA
17th January, 2013
DUSHANBE, (SANA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov strongly criticized the statements on the responsibility of the Syrian government forces for the terrorist attack which targeted Aleppo University on Tuesday, describing them as “repulsive and unscrupulous”.
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Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2013
“How on earth has France sided with islamists to commit mass murder in Libya and Syria? Under the false pretext of protecting civilians, France has returned to colonialism. For Andre Chamy, France should not betray French ideals and the values of the left, he should change direction.”
Lettre ouverte au président François Hollande
Andre Chamy
Voltairenet
16th January, 2013
Comment diable la France s’est-elle embarquée aux côtés des islamistes dans des crimes de masse en Libye et en Syrie ? Sous le prétexte fallacieux de protéger les populations civiles, Paris renoue avec le colonialisme. Pour Me André Chamy, François Hollande ne peut trahir les idéaux français et les valeurs de la gauche, il doit changer de cap.
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Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2013
Coordination pour la souveraineté de la Syrie et contre l’ingérence étrangèr
Voltairenet
14th January, 2013
Une coordination d’associations françaises anti-impérialistes vient de se constituer à Paris pour s’opposer à l’intervention française en Syrie. Dans son manifeste, elle affirme son attachement au « droit inaliénable du peuple syrien à donner lui-même une solution nationale et souveraine à la crise » et souligne l’identité du combat pour la souveraineté de la Syrie et pour celle de la France.
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Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
9th January, 2013
The Russian and American diplomats are to hold joint consultations in Geneva on Friday with the United Nations special envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. Is the crunch time coming?
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2013
Franklin Lamb
Counterpunch
7th January, 2013
Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center, the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address, was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife,
completing a project of his late father, Hafez, who actually planned the
opera house in detail, but which had been put on hold since the late 1970’s.
Located off Umayyad Square, the multipurpose culture center complex,
presented its most recent opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s, The Marriage
of Figaro, just months before the current crisis erupted.
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