“Yats” and “Klitsch”, the State Department’s point men in Ukraine are driving a hard bargain, nothing short of “all power to Yats and Klitsch”. However, it doesn’t look as if this is a true reflection of the balance of forces and Obama backing a neo-fascist coup in Ukraine remains an unlikely scenario since it would destroy at one fell swoop his entire foreign policy agenda over Iran, Syria and Palestine. This, however, could perfectly well be the goal of certain elements within the USA dismayed by Obama’s rapprochement with Russia.
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai on Saturday signaled that a deal to allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan was close to collapse as the NATO combat mission withdraws after a decade of fighting the Taliban.
The withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria is an elementary requirement of any peace process but it has taken the intervention of Iran to put it on the table. This peace process is in reality not between the Syrian “regime” and the “opposition” but between Syria and her foreign enemies hitherto intent on her destruction.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged the withdrawal of all foreign-backed militants from Syria, saying the Syrian people should be allowed to determine their own destiny without foreign interference.
“The Senate bill also calls for “diplomatic, military and economic support” to Israel in case Tel Aviv decides to launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear energy program.”
The White House says some American lawmakers want the United States to attack Iran as they are supporting a new bill to impose further sanctions against the country.
Immanuel Velikovsky was a controversial author, his views on astronomical and historical events have been widely rejected by the academic community, despite some of his ideas to be later proven true.
His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources to argue that Earth suffered catastrophic close contacts with other planets (principally Venus and Mars) in ancient times.
Russia may have made its most significant foreign-policy gain in the entire post-cold war era when the Kremlin decisively moved in on Tuesday to offer a rescue package for the beleagured Ukrainian economy and may have taken a leap forward in leading that country into the Eurasian Union, which Moscow is planning as the umbrella organization bringing together the former Soviet republics.
There never was any serious doubt that Senator John McCain was going to miss the gala event tomorrow (Sunday) in Kiev — a sea of people drawn from the western regions of Ukraine being brought to the capital to make a strong bid for a ‘color revolution’ even as people from the eastern regions lead a counter-protest against ‘color revolution.’
In a few weeks, Sotheby’s will be auctioning the draft of a speech delivered by King George the VI, announcing England’s entry into the Second World War.
On November 23, Beijing announced that a new air defense identification zone (ADIZ) would go into effect over the East China Sea, overlapping existing Japanese and South Korean ADIZ, requiring all air traffic passing through the zone to file flight information irrespective of its destination. Despite eliciting strong responses from Tokyo and Washington as well as restrained but negative responses from Seoul, Taipei and Canberra, China claimed the ADIZ was a routine measure for improving awareness of its airspace and protecting its national security without any ulterior motive.
Developments in Ukraine have exposed the senility of European leadership in as far as it exists at all. Europe has not shown a realistic appraisal of its relationship with Ukraine and seems hopelessly mired in a cold war mindset
We’re in the grip of a new addiction – high-speed, high-stakes gambling.
What’s fuelling this destructive habit is the fixed odds betting terminal(FOBT), a machine that allows people to bet £100 every 20 seconds for 13 hours a day.
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