Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2013
16th March, 2013
The United Stated is abandoning a key part of its Eastern European missile defense plan due to development problems and funding, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced. The focus, he said, will be shifted to perceived threats from North Korea.
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Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2013
lifting Syria arms embargo counterproductive: UN
16th March, 2013
The United Nations has criticized French President Francois Hollande for his proposal to lift an EU arms embargo on Syria, describing it as “counterproductive.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2013
Anglo-French plan to arm Syrian rebels meets wall of resistance at EU summit
15th March, 2013
The sudden Anglo-French move to overturn a European arms embargo on Syria in order to equip the rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime has run into a solid wall of resistance at an EU summit, with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, dismissing the policy U-turn and others warning of a regional conflagration from which Iran would emerge the winner.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2013
8th March, 2013
The visit of four parliamentarians of the main opposition Republican People’s Party [CHP] to Damascus on Thursday and their meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad has once again exposed an important weakness of the ruling Justice and Development Party [AKP] government.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2013
12th March, 2013
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu insists on flogging a dead horse. Having failed to persuade Washington during Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to Turkey to supply arms to the Syrian opposition, he is now working on the EU to lift its arms embargo on Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2013
Russia warns UK against sending weapons to militants in Syria
14th March, 2013
Russia says arming foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government is in violation of international law.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2013
“The pipeline agreement underlines that the US is isolating itself in the battle over Iran. US sanctions laws on Iran are simply rules without a game-plan, and the sooner the US lawmakers come to this realization, the better.”
Kaveh Afrasiabi
13th March, 2013
NEW YORK – Although the United Nations has never imposed sanctions on Iran’s energy sector, the US government has opposed a decision by Pakistan to proceed with a much-delayed pipeline from Iran on the grounds that this would put Islamabad in “violation of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program”. [1] It seems the US has once again mistaken its own laws for that of the international community.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2013
“The deputy prime minister in charge of the reform, Ma Kai, has explained that the purpose of restructuring is to give power to the markets and society, to reduce government intervention in small matters, and instead to improve the government’s ability to manage macro-economic matters and provide supervision.”
This is the complete opposite of the British system where the state renounces control of the commanding heights of the economy in favour micro-managing human behaviour
Francesco Sisci
13th March, 2013
BEIJING – There are two deep and long-term aspects to the administrative reforms announced at the end the plenary session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC). One appears to be fully in the imperial tradition of concentrating power to the center and stemming the centripetal forces that have brought domestic and foreign policy out of control. We pointed out this major problem earlier this year Too many cooks spoil foreign-policy stew (Asia Times Online, January 7, 2011).
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2013
3rd March, 2013
For almost 2 years western media and governments have been leveling a flurry of accusations against the legal and legitimate head of the Syrian state, against his government and against Syria’s military. They try to pass the victim off as the culprit, as they did in Libya and in other free and independent countries. Indeed armed groups some more organized than others, some coming from abroad are spreading terror in Syria. It is therefore normal for the legitimate regime of Syria to send in the police and the military to fight the uprising. According to the most basic legal principles which are the only way to secure peace between nations, governments have the duty to protect the people from domestic and foreign attacks. Ensuring law and order is a government’s main duty. What would our governments do if part of the population took arms to overthrow them with the help of foreign mercenaries ? Wouldn’t they send in the police and the military ? Would they step down without batting an eyelid as they ask the legitimate Syrian government to do ?
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
10th March, 2013
The implementation of the peace plan for Syria negotiated between Russians and Americans is running at a standstill. First there was the delay in the confirmation of the new U.S. security team by the Senate. Then, inconsistent if not contradictory statements by the new Secretary of State, John Kerry.
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2013
9th March, 2013
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