Archive for the ‘Global peace process’ Category
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2013
This will be a disappointment to the British “anti-war” left who have seen fit to shun all contacts with Assad and anyone suspected of supporting him i.e. most of the Syrian population. However, Obama’s retreat from empire is gaining unstoppable momentum. After reaching a deal on Syria he will move onto the thorny question of an Israel-Palestine settlement. The left’s hopes in a new front against China are also likely to be disappointed as Obama is merely involved in a sort of rough-wooing: invest in America or we’ll bomb the hell out of you! The Chinese, however, are already only to eager to invest in America. Obama is also keen to trumpet the charge as he retreats on all fronts.
Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
25th November, 2013
Geneva II, the peace talks scheduled for June and repeatedly delayed, finally have a date, and both the Assad government and opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) have agreed to take part on January 22.
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
26th November, 2013
The tough-talking, no-nonsense US National Security Advisor Susan Rice met her match at the presidential palace in Kabul Monday evening over a “working dinner”. One would have loved to be a fly on the wall. But there was no need, because no sooner than the pomegranates and grapes were eaten after the rich meal of pilav and kebabs and Rice reported back to Washington her conversation with President Hamid Karzai, which lasted several hours, the White house released a curtly worded readout on what transpired.
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2013
Jim Lobe
Asia Times
26th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – Despite strenuous objections by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and mostly Republican lawmakers here, the new accord between the Iran and the US and five other major powers on Tehran’s nuclear program appears to be gaining support here and abroad.
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Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2013
PressTV
25th November, 2013
It would have been a “grave error” for western countries to walk away from the negotiating table with Iran, William Hague has told MPs.
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Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
25th November, 2013
It’s not clear why Britain’s Stop the War group invited Mother Agnes of the Mussalaha initiative (Reconciliation) to their annual conference. They must have known that any viewpoint other than that of Aljazeera, the BBC and Human Rights Watch would stir controversy in its ranks. Two luminaries of the left duly decided to boycott the conference if she was present on the grounds that she was an agent of the Assad “regime” and that she had questioned, some might say debunked, the official account of the the chemical weapons attack at Ghouta implicating the Syrian government.
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2013
by Abbas Edalat (interview with Kourosh Ziabari) (source: CASMII)
Campaign Iran
23rd November, 2013
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Posted by seumasach on November 20, 2013
PressTV
20th November, 2013
The upper house of the US Congress has acceded to the White House’s request to delay a vote on additional sanctions against Iran, as the Islamic Republic and six other countries are set to resume their nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.
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Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2013
Jim Lobe
Asia Times
5th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – On the 34th anniversary of the seizure by Iranian militants of the US Embassy in Tehran, a growing number of experts here believe Washington and the Islamic Republic may be moving toward detente, if not rapprochement.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
Victor Kotsev
Asia Times
4th November, 2013
The Israeli operations in Syria and the Gaza strip that took place almost simultaneously last week demonstrated just how fraught with tensions the relationship between the United States and Israel has become and how unpredictable and dangerous the period ahead is.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Nation
30th October, 2013
The Obama administration is working hard to head off a wrecking ball from Congress and the Israel lobby aimed at sabotaging negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. The talks, which resume in November, also include direct talks between the United States and Iran. The key issue: members of the House and Senate are trying to force-feed the administration yet another round of anti-Iran sanctions, at the very worst possible moment.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Campaign Iran
12th October, 2013
Editor’s note: This statement has been issued ahead of the new round of the 5+1 group with Iran jointly by the following NGO’s: Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support, Tehran Peace Museum
The comprehensive US/EU sanctions attacking the lifeline of Iranian economy is a criminal war of choice against the Iranian population. Far from the claims of sanctions as diplomacy aimed at the resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, sanctions are inflicting, both by design and default, unendurable pain and destruction on Iranian people, Iran’s infrastructure and civil society institutions.
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