Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
1st November, 2013
Pressure on Obama from Putin as part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role with bailing out the American president with the chemical weapons ‘redline’ which became a canard is one reason. Another reason is that the White House believes that it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations and even some cooperation are not completely destroyed as a result of the 32 month crisis still raging in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Obama administration presses Senate to hold off on new round of Iran sanctions
31st October, 2012
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama administration officials convinced a number of senators on Thursday to hold off on another round of Iran sanctions as Western powers test Tehran’s willingness to scale back its nuclear aims.
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Posted by seumasach on October 31, 2013
The role of the US bases remains unclear. I would expect the SCO to play a major role in stabilising Afghanistan but perhaps there is an as yet undeclared US-Russian agreement here.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
30th October, 2013
There has been swift follow-up on the talks in Washington on September 23 between President Barack Obama and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif regarding the urgency of kickstarting the peace talks with the Taliban. The meeting in London earlier today hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron brought together Sharif and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, which is leading to a breakthrough.
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st October, 2013
Juxtaposing the interview with Wall Street Journal by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on September 27 where he called for a “new beginning” in ties with India with his remarks in London on October 19 calling for a robust intervention by the United States in the Kashmir problem, one doesn’t need much ingenuity to figure out that the Pakistani idiom has dramatically changed in a matter of three weeks.
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st October, 2013
The United States has turned its back on what could have been a thrilling episode in the Great Game in Central Asia. The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US is vacating Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan by July 2014, as demanded by Bishkek.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2013
16th October, 2013
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — The United States is trying to persuade a key Syrian opposition group to drop its refusal to join planned peace talks, saying its participation is essential, a US official said yesterday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
13th October, 2013
Writing recently in the Guardian John Pilger couldn’t have been more dismissive of US peace overtures to Syria and Iran:
“John Kerry’s farce and Barack Obama’s pirouettes are temporary. Russia’s peace deal over chemical weapons will, in time, be treated with the contempt that all militarists reserve for diplomacy. With al-Qaida now among its allies, and US-armed coupmasters secure in Cairo, the US intends to crush the last independent states in the Middle East: Syria first, then Iran.”
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2013
Jim Lobe
9th October, 2013
WASHINGTON – Last week began with a blistering denunciation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Iranian duplicity and ended with diminished prospects for Israel to take direct action to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities .”The Israelis find themselves in a far worse position now than they have been for several years,” concluded Elliott Abrams, a leading neo-conservative who served as George W Bush’s main Middle East adviser, in Foreign Affairs.
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Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
7th October, 2013
Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently ruin the Franco-British claims on the country.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013
M.J.Rosenberg
3rd October, 2013
have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy. At least I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful executive director, explained how it would happen.
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Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Pepe Escobar
25th September, 2013
He came. He listened. And he surfed.
“I listened carefully to the statement made by President Obama today at the General Assembly… [I’m] hoping that they will refrain from following the short-sighted interests of warmongering pressure groups and we can arrive at a framework to managing our differences.”
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