M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th February, 2013
It was an extraordinary week in the politics of the Middle East and it ended appropriately by being rounded off with a reality check lest imaginations ran riot.
Khamenei plays hardball with Obama
Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
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Israel fuels Syrian fire, risks contagion
Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2013
Nicola Nasser
8th February, 2013
The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target that has yet to be identified coincided with hard-to-refute indications that attempts to achieve “regime change” in Syria by force, both by foreign military intervention and by internal armed rebellion, have failed, driving the Syrian opposition in exile to opt unwillingly for “negotiations” with the ruling regime, with the blessing of the US, EU and Arab League.
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Dominique de Villepin-No, France is not about war
Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2013
“Non, la guerre ce n’est pas la France”
Dominique de Villepin
Source : Le Journal du Dimanche (France)
10th February, 2013
Le Mali, pays ami, s’effondre. Les djihadistes avancent vers le sud, l’urgence est là.
Mais ne cédons pas au réflexe de la guerre pour la guerre. L’unanimisme des va-t-en-guerre, la précipitation apparente, le déjà-vu des arguments de la « guerre contre le terrorisme » m’inquiètent. Ce n’est pas la France. Tirons les leçons de la décennie des guerres perdues, en Afghanistan, en Irak, en Libye.
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Market Collapse In Process?
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
Billionaires Continue To Dump U.S. Stocks, Traders Are Betting Against U.S. Economy!!
9th February, 2013
Despite the 6.5% stock market
rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
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Churkin on US involvement in Syria
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
Churkin: US Announcement on Non-involvement in Arming Opposition in Syria Does Not Absolve it of Full Responsibility
10th February, 2013
NEW YORK/ANKARA, (SANA) – Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin stressed that the US announcement about not arming the opposition in Syria does not absolve of full responsibility for what is taking place in the country or the practices of the armed opposition.
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Kerry makes overture to Iran
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
10th February, 2013
The United States has neatly sidestepped the remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which apparently shut the door on direct talks between the two ancient adversaries. In sum, the Barack Obama administration ran a fine comb through Khamenei’s remarks and estimated that it is not at all as if the door for US-Iran talks has been slammed shut and the key thrown away.
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Hamdeen Sabbahi defies death threats, vows to continue revolutionary path
Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2013
8th February, 2013
Opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi said on Friday that peaceful protests will continue until the revolution’s goals have been achieved and until retribution for all slain protesters has been achieved.
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GOP descends Into Its winter of discontent
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
James M.Wall
7th February, 2013
On one side are fierce Hagel critics such as McCain and Bill Kristol (left), Washington’s neocon-in-chief, who refuse to back down from their belief that the Iraq invasion of nearly a decade ago was just, and who continue to support the aggressive projection of U.S. military power abroad, especially in Syria.
On the other side are Obama, Hagel, and others who warned—quite presciently—of the pitfalls of that policy, and who are running away from military intervention abroad at full speed, even as they ratchet up the “small footprint” use of drones.
And now the neocon hawks fear that, like Shakespeare’s Richard III, there will be no place for them at all in Obama’s “weak, piping time of peace.” It is truly the winter of their discontent.
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Egypt looks to new regional plan on Syria
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
7th February, 2013
At the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Cairo, the leaders of Egypt, Turkey and Iran came together to discuss a recent political initiative made by Syrian opposition figure Moaz Al-Khatib to initiate dialogue between Syrian opposition and the regime, in search of a political deal to end almost two years of bloodshed in the country.
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End of European Gene-Potatoes after Consumers assured that they won´t end up in their bags
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
8th February, 2013
The German newspaper NEOPresse informs that the German multinational corporation BASF has stopped all projects with genetically manipulated potatoes. BASF gave gene-potatoes projects the red card after protests against the release of the genetically manipulated crop in the environment continued flaring up.
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Argentine president backs agreement with Iran on AMIA bombing
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2013
8th February, 2013
See also:
ITNT Archive: Israeli Embassy and AMIA bombings
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has defended an agreement with Iran to establish a “truth commission” to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires
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