Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th September, 2012
At a time when the United States-Russia “reset” lies in limbo, it should come as no surprise that President Vladimir Putin has made one of the most important statements of his four-month-old presidency, drawing attention to the commonality of interests between the two major world powers and indeed between Russia and the West on one of the hottest issues of current world politics – the Middle Eastern question.
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Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2012
Ronda Hauben
10th September, 2012
[This is an updated and edited excerpt from a talk I gave in Beijing in July 2012 at a program sponsored by April Media.]
Part I – The Houla Massacre
The Houla massacre occurred in Syria on May 25, 2012.
This was but a few days before Kofi Annan, who was at the time the joint Arab League-UN envoy, was scheduled to visit Syria.
Immediately after the massacre, there was a media campaign in much of the western media to blame the Syrian government for the deaths. There were 108 deaths reported which included men, women and children. A short time after the massacre, an alternative account was made available by a Russian online media group, Anna News.(1) The day following the massacre, a news team for this online site visited the area where the massacre had occurred. Their report appeared on a number of alternative news sites soon after the massacre.
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Posted by seumasach on September 8, 2012
Liberalism’s old world order
The liberal way to run the world – ‘improve’ or we’ll kill you
John Pilger
5th September, 2012
WHAT IS THE WORLD’S most powerful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons, such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only “superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged,” because only one ideology claims to be non-ideological, neither left nor right, the supreme way. This is liberalism.
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Posted by seumasach on September 8, 2012
Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker
7th September, 2012
David Petraeus visited Turkey alongside the senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman whereby many important issues related to the geopolitics of America will have been discussed. Petraeus is the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and with the rocky ties of Israel and Turkey worrying Washington then this was part of his remit. However, issues related to Syria, Iran, Iraq, terrorism and a possible conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, would also have been on the agenda given the current volatility throughout the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus region.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
2nd September, 2012
Military intervention in Syria would mean a complete failure of all diplomatic efforts already taken to settle the conflict, the UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi told Al Arabiya on Saturday.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
Israel does not expect anything useful to come out of the Petraeus visit – or even any alleviation of the bad feeling between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama. High-placed officials in Jerusalem were of the view that the CIA chief fits the US president’s bill at this time. His visit is a non-binding gesture of goodwill for Israel which does not require the White House or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey to backtrack or apologize for his derogatory remarks about the IDF’s capacity for taking Iran on. Another advantage is that any words passing between the CIA chief and Israeli leaders may be classified.
2nd September, 2012
President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director David Petraeus to Israel in a hurry Monday, Sept. 3, in an attempt to quench the flames of discord between Israel and his administration on the Iran issue. He will fly in from a visit to Ankara Sunday, where too he faces recriminations for US handling of the Syrian crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
Checkmate! As the US top brass veto overt military intervention in Syria Cameron, Hollande and Erdogan are left twisting in the wind.
30th, August, 2012
Dempsey warned against the viability of creating safe zones and helping bring rebels with terrorist ties to power in Syria
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
1st September, 2012
The Turkish People are taking to the streets in support of the Syrian people and against the USA. They are now getting fed up with Erdogan helping the USA starting wars. The USA are now making more and more enemies around the world because of Hillary Clinton’s actions and Obama’s foreign policy.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
But observations made by German journalist Daniel Etter during a recent visit to rebel-controlled towns near the embattled city of Aleppo suggest that there is no mere “presence” of jihadists among the rebels: religiously-inspired mujahideen is what the rebels are. The real question is whether there is a presence of anything else.
John Rosenthal
14th August, 2012
Asia Times
There has recently been a small stir in the American media, as media organizations from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to the Associated Press have finally gotten around to acknowledging a “presence” of al-Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups among the Syrian rebel forces seeking to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
2nd September, 2012
The UN Security Council’s push for a human corridor in Syria, which critics say could bring military intervention, has sparked protests in Germany. About 1,000 people gathered in Frankfurt demanding an end to foreign meddling in the Syrian conflict.
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