Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
L’agonie du complot occidental contre la Syrie
Ghaleb Kandil
Voltairenet
11th June, 2013
La victoire enregistrée par l’Armée arabe syrienne dans la région de Qoussair n’est pas une exception mais une tendance générale confirmée. Les gangs terroristes takfiristes s’effondrent en raison du recul du soutien populaire à la rébellion armée. La règle historique indiscutable est que toute force militaire, même s’il s’agit d’une armée puissante, nombreuse et bien équipée, perd ses capacités de résistance si elle ne jouit plus d’un environnement social favorable. Que dire alors de groupes de mercenaires assoiffés de sang, venus de 82 pays différents, qui commettent les pires crimes contre les populations locales. Le dernier en date étant, dimanche, l’exécution d’un enfant de 15 ans devant sa famille pour blasphème (Voir ci-dessous). Plus grave encore, le peuple syrien a découvert que ces groupes sont étroitement liés à Israël.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
Voltairenet
12th June, 2013
While the military situation in Syria has turned around and Al-Qusayr (photo) has been liberated by the Syrian Arab Army, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called for an urgent shipment of weapons to the rebels to rebalance the correlation of forces.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
“The AP reported that officials at the White House, the Pentagon and in the intelligence community remain hesitant about providing weapons, ammunition or other lethal support. Instead, they are focused on non-lethal support, such as Wednesday’s decision by the Treasury Department to ease restrictions on Syrian telecommunications, agricultural and petroleum transactions that benefit the opposition.”
US considers Syria policy as John Kerry seeks ways to help civil war rebels
12th June, 2013
Guardian
National security advisers met in Washington on Wednesday, to consider what further steps the US can take to help Syria‘s struggling rebel groups.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
Bill Mundell
Asia Times
6th June, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
When Chinese President Xi Jinping meets President Obama tomorrow at Sunnylands, California, the agenda will likely be populated with the same issues that have dogged the relationship for years – currency values, North Korea, protection of intellectual property, human rights – and some newer ones that have heated up recently, such as cyber-security and conflict in the South China Sea.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
“The US needs to rebuild its infrastructure, which is putting a huge brake on its development; and China needs to hedge its US investments from inflation or devaluation. Then a part of the trillions of dollars of Chinese foreign reserves could be turned into minority stakes in US infrastructure.”
Francesco Sisci
Asia Times
11th June, 2013
BEIJING – Openings over the environment, closer collaboration on North Korea, and no mention of the prickly issue of human rights: at the weekend summit between US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US seemed to pick up where ties got derailed – that is, in Copenhagen in December 2009, when Obama and then prime minister Wen Jiabao failed to reach an agreement on the environment. Xi reciprocated by demanding respect for the new status of his country and reopening the sensitive and important military dialogue.
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2013
So this whole affair serves as a cue for Obama to “review” the Patriot Act which correlates with his apparent sidelining of Homeland Security
US lawmakers call for review of Patriot Act after NSA surveillance revelations
Guardian
10th June, 2013
The White House has said it would consider congressional calls to review the Patriot Act after conceding that revelations over the scale of US surveillance activity had sparked “an appropriate debate”.
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2013
Obama under pressure as senator denounces ‘act of treason’
Guardian
11th June, 2013
The Obama administration offered no indication on Monday about what it intended to do about Snowden. The White House did however say he had sparked an “appropriate debate” and hinted it might welcome revision of the Patriot Act, legislation introduced in 2001 which it claims gives legal authority for the programmes carried out by the National Security Agency.
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
10th June, 2013
For Thierry Meyssan, the Turkish people are not protesting against Recip Tayyeb Erdogan’s autocratic style, but against his policies; in other words, against the Muslim Brotherhood, of which he is the mentor. What started on Taksim Square is not a color revolution over a new building project, but an uprising that has spread across the entire country; in short, it is a revolution that calls the “Arab Spring” into question.
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2013
RT
10th June, 2013
Israel would accept “any force” that would take an “active part” in maintaining peace in the Syrian-Israeli border region of the Golan Heights, deputy head of the Israeli Interior Ministry Faina Kirshenbaum said. Israel “would not oppose” the sending of the Russian peacekeepers as well, Kirshenbaum added in a radio interview with Echo Moskvy, referring to an earlier suggestions by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow has proposed replacing Austria’s UNDOF contingent, which withdrew from the Golan Heights, with about 300 Russian peacekeepers. However, the mandate of the UN mission does not formally allow Russia to participate.
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2013
Iraqi News
10th June, 2013
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Aliya Nusaiyf of the Hurra Iraqiya Slate called the Arab League to criminalize the armed groups in Syria after proving their conniving with Israel and their using Israeli-made weapons in Qaseer war.
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2013
Guardian
7th June, 2013
The United Nations’ drone investigator says he expects a “significant reduction” in the controversial strikes by the US in the next 18 months.
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