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Muos : Niscemi résiste à l’Empire

Posted by seumasach on May 23, 2013

Manlio Dinucci

Voltairenet

21st May, 2013

Une petite ville italienne résiste à l’implantation de Muos sur une base militaire. Muos ? C’est le système ultra-sophistiqué qui devra relier toutes les unités combattantes des États-Unis et de l’OTAN. Niscemi ? C’est le petit village sicilien qui résiste à l’Empire et défend la paix en Syrie…

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Obama faces war-mongering Congress

Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013

“Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus presented the White House with a plan to arm some elements of the Syrian opposition that was supported by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. The White House rejected the Clinton-Petraeus plan.”

Obama successfully marginalised the above but now faces a Congress intent on taking over the war-mongering baton

Senate Moves Toward Arming the Syrian Rebels

Daily Beast

22nd May, 2013

So far the Obama administration has pledged only nonlethal and humanitarian aid, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants to go much further—approving a bill Tuesday to arm the rebels.

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“Friends of Syria” to discuss peace proposal in Amman talks

Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013

Albawaba

22nd May, 2013

The core ministerial members of the “Friends of Syria” group is due to meet in Amman on Wednesday, in a bid to put forward a solution that will bring the ongoing violence in Syria to an end, officials said.

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The global peace process begins

Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013

Cailean Bochanan

21st May, 2013

As the Syrian army continues to reclaim its control over sovereign territory the West faces complete failure and humiliation. Failure because utter hubris has led us into overreach and  humiliation because defeat has exposed the nefarious nature of our engagement with Salafist terrorists and NATO death squads and our complicity with, amongst other things, the ethnic cleansing of Christians, our presumed co-religionaries. All that matters now is that realism prevail and we go into reverse gear. We must end our aggression against Syria and we can do so under the cover of a “peace process” being provide for us by the Russians. This allows us to pose as mediators between a legitimate government which we have tried and failed to overthrow and the armed gangs which we have sponsored to that end. We have been given a lifeline, a chance to repackage ourselves as bringers of peace rather than murder and mayhem. Let us take this opportunity with open arms!

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Palestinian resistance group warns US, Israel against invasion of Syria

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2013

“The path to the liberation of Palestine doesn’t pass through Doha.” 


FNA

28th April, 2013

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warned the US and its allies, specially Israel, to avoid a military attack on Syria, stressing that Palestinian resistance groups will join the Damascus army in case of a foreign military aggression.

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Obama Beats Bibi on TKO

Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2013

Philip Giraldi

Antiwar.com

28th March, 2013

As a long time commentator on American policy in the Middle East, I have been following with interest the discussion on the recent visit by Barack Obama to Israel, Jordan, and the state-or-non-state of Palestine.

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Obama makes direct peace appeal to Israeli public

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2013

Al Ahram

21st March, 2013

US President Barack Obama appealed directly on Thursday to the Israeli people to put themselves in the shoes of stateless Palestinians and recognise that Jewish settlement activity in occupied territory hurts prospects for peace.

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Will Bibi and Obama make history?

Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2013

YNet

28th February, 2013

During his next term as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu will have to do what he avoided doing in his previous terms: Draw boundaries and begin establishing two states for two peoples. This painful process, certainly from Netanyahu’s perspective, will commence soon.

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Obama demands a timetable for Israeli withdrawal

Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013

NSNBC

4th March, 2013

By Saed Bannoura (IMEMC).- American President, Barack Obama, demanded Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to present a timetable for the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, the World Tribune has reported.

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Obama, Putin keep the pot simmering

Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2013

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

2nd March, 2013

The Kremlin statement on the telecon between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama on Friday is not exactly euphoric; it was a ‘detailed’ conversation and ‘constructive’ Obama initiated the phone call.

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Mossad agents in the Al-Qaeda unit that attacked the Yarmouk camp

Posted by seumasach on January 2, 2013

Voltairenet

2nd January, 2013

The battle that raged starting December 9 in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp (south of Damascus) has revealed new alliances.

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