Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2014
15th January, 2014
DUBAI (Reuters) – The intelligence services of some Western countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have visited Damascus to discuss security cooperation with his government, Syria’s deputy foreign minister said in remarks broadcast on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2014
UN Chief Reiterates Iran’s Participation in Int’l Geneva II Talks on Syria
15th January, 2014
“I insisted on the necessity of Iran’s participation in (my) negotiations with all regional and international sides, who are involved in Syria’s issue, because in my opinion Iran is a major player,” Ban stressed in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian on the sidelines of the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Kuwait on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2014
13th January, 2014
The US president Barack Obama lost no time to greet the agreement reached yesterday between Iran and ‘P5+1′ opening the Iran nuclear program to “new and more frequent inspections”. Obama knows — and he knows we know — that, finally, slowly but surely, the historic legacy of this extraordinary statesman is taking shape in front of our eyes.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2014
9th January, 2014
Avigdor Lieberman, the hawkish Israeli foreign minister widely regarded as a major obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, has urged his country to accept the deal currently being brokered by Washington as the best offer it will ever receive.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2014
M.K.bhadrakumar
8th January, 2014
The stunning occupation of the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in Anbar province by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Lebanon over the weekend carries grim warnings for Afghanistan. Yet, it is important that the lessons learnt should be the correct ones.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2014
11th January, 2014
The Iraqi security forces along with local Sunni tribesmen have cleared parts of the flashpoint city of Ramadi from al-Qaeda-linked militants as the UN Security Council voices support for their operations.
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2014
“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.”
Congress wants war against Iran, White House asks
11th January, 2014
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.
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Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2013
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.
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Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th December, 2013
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.
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Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2013
Barak Ravid
13th December, 2013
A senior European diplomat met with an Israeli counterpart a few weeks ago and one of the topics they discussed was the continued European Union sanctions against the settlements. They raised in their conversation the possible scenario that Israeli produce from the West Bank would be marked as such in European supermarkets. The conversation points to one of the gravest threats Israel will face in the coming year, namely its growing international isolation.
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Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
15th December, 2013
On the eve of the Geneva 2 Conference, the American organisers no longer have any puppets to play the role of Syrian revolutionaries. The sudden disappearance of the Free Syrian Army shows those who believed in it that it was a fiction. There has never been a popular revolution in Syria; just foreign aggression staged by mercenaries and billions of dollars.
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