Archive for the ‘Syria’ Category
Posted by seumasach on September 28, 2015
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
28th September, 2015
The liberal hawks and the neo-conservatives have been unable to provoke the confrontation with Russia for which they were trained during the Cold War. Finally, the voice of reason has prevailed. While discrete negotiations are under way to seek an end to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia and China are preparing to convince the United States and their allies to participate in a global alliance against Islamic terrorism. After 5 years of tension, both the project for the seizure of power by the Muslim Brotherhood – the « Arab Spring » – and the proclamation of a Caliphate have failed. Peace is saved.
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2015
Robert Parry
Consortium News
22nd September, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has thrown U.S. policymakers what amounts to a lifeline to pull them out of the quicksand that is the Syrian war, but Official Washington’s neocons and the mainstream U.S. news media are growling about Putin’s audacity and challenging his motives.
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Posted by seumasach on September 22, 2015
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation ready to fight Daesh under the auspices of the UN
Voltairenet
15th September, 2015
Meeting in Dushanbe (Tadjikistan) on the 15th September 2015, the heads of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) strongly denounced terrorism in Iraq and Syria, particularly that of the phoney Islamic Emirate (« Daesh »).
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Posted by seumasach on September 22, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
21st September, 2015
The remarks to the media by the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and the visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry following their meeting in London on Saturday conveyed the sense of an overall easing of tensions between the West and Russia. This cannot but have ‘collateral’ effect on the search for solution to the Syrian conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2015
Sputnik
13th September, 2015
Several key German politicians have urged for close cooperation with the Russian president in solving the ongoing military conflict in Syria, saying it can’t be resolved without Russia’s support.
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2015
Whose “hidden agenda” is the crux of the matter. Probably not Obama’s but other elements inside and outside of his administration.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
13th September, 2015
The Syrian refugee problem was maturing slowly steadily and would have provided the perfect pretext for a US-led ‘humanitarian intervention’ in that country. But Russia is there first and the best-laid American plan may have gone awry.
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2015
SYRIA: GERMANY LEAVING THE RANKS OF THE US-ALLIANCE AGAINST RUSSIA
South Front
13th September, 2015
In a surprise move Germany left the anti-Putin-alliance formed by the USA: Germany is now officially welcoming Moscow’s readiness to act in Syria and is starting an initiative together with the Russians and the French to bring an end to the war. This is to stop the constant stream of refugees. Germany has ordered thousands of soldiers into readiness.
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Posted by seumasach on September 8, 2015
Russia’s Policy of Peace Should Serve as Framework for West
Sputnik
8th September, 2015
The West should lift all anti-Russian sanctions and support Moscow which could prevent a large-scale conflict in the Middle East, according to an article in Obserwator Polityczny.
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Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2015
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
24th August, 2015
After having negotiated a regional alliance against the Islamic Emirate which implied Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, Russia suddenly had to abandon its strategy after the Turkish turn-around. Ankara has in fact decided to break off its ties with Moscow, and has cancelled, without genuine motive, the contract for the gas pipe-line Turkish Stream, created, in partenership with Ukraine, an international Islamic Brigade intended to destabilise Crimea [1]. It has also come to the help of the Islamic Emirate in their fight against the Kurds of the PKK and the YPG.
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Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2015
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
13th August, 2015
For the last two weeks, the international Press has been full of rumours announcing the beginning of a US military operation against Syria. Thierry Meyssan, who has already denounced a manipulation by General John Allen and his friends, whose aim is to sabotage the USA/Iran agreements, revisists the absurdity of this charge. He explains why the strategic support offered by Russia and China to a secular Syria is not negotiable.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2015
“Russia’s top diplomat cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US-led coalition against ISIL, saying the United Nations Security Council should enter the equation in order to resolve the “ambiguities” of the campaign.”
Far News Agency
10th August, 2015
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Damascus would agree to be a part of the international coalition against ISIL Takfiri terrorists in case it receives such a request.
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