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Russia, India and China go their ways

Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2009

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

5th November, 2009

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is virtually peerless. Only a handful of foreign ministers can match him in professionalism honed over decades in international diplomacy. He seldom leaves the ring empty-handed.
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US goofs the Afghan election

Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2009

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

3rd November, 2009

Abdullah Abdullah’s refusal to take part in the Afghan presidential election runoff on November 7 is a watershed event. From his point of view, the former foreign minister did the sensible thing, having carefully assessed he had no stake whatsoever in a runoff that he had zero chance of winning.
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Les USA, Empire de la barbarie Le secret de Guantánamo

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet.org

28th October, 2009

Vous pensez être informé sur ce qui s’est passé à Guantánamo et vous vous étonnez que le président Obama n’arrive pas à fermer ce centre de torture. Vous avez tort. Vous ignorez la véritable finalité de ce dispositif et ce qui le rend indispensable à l’administration actuelle.
Attention : si vous souhaitez continuer à penser que nous avons des valeurs communes avec les États-Unis et que nous devons être alliés avec eux, abstenez-vous de lire cet article.

Chacun se souvient de ces photographies de tortures qui circulaient sur Internet. Elles étaient présentées comme les trophées de guerre de quelques GI’s. Néanmoins, les grands médias, ne pouvant en vérifier l’authenticité, n’osaient pas les reproduire. En 2004, la chaîne CBS y consacra un reportage. Ce fut le signal d’un grand mouvement de dénonciation des mauvais traitements infligés aux Irakiens. La prison d’Abu Ghraib montrait que la prétendue guerre contre la dictature de Saddam Hussein était en réalité une guerre d’occupation comme les autres, avec le même cortège de crimes. Sans surprise, Washington assura qu’il s’agissait d’exactions perpétrées à l’insu du commandement par quelques individus non-représentatifs, qualifiés de « pommes pourries ». Quelques soldats furent arrêtés et jugés pour l’exemple. Le dossier était clos jusqu’aux prochaines révélations.

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Pat Buchanan: White House vs. Pentagon

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

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Taliban take over Afghan province

Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2009

Asia Times

29th October, 2009

The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.

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America, condoms and the Taliban

Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2009

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

23rd October, 2009

The Pakistanis use an earthy metaphor when they want to put their American interlocutors on the defensive. They complain that the United States used Pakistan like a condom, simply discarded it when it is no longer useful, as has happened time and again in the Cold War era. By saying so, they urge the Americans to be constant in friendship.
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China Becomes A Player In Afghanistan’s Future

Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2009

China Becomes A Player In Afghanistan’s Future
by ANTHONY KUHN

October 21, 2009

NPR

In search of a solution to Afghanistan’s problems, the United States is seeking help from several of Afghanistan’s neighbors, including China, which has become the largest commercial investor in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

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Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2009

David Ray Griffin

Global Research

11th October, 2009

Is Osama bin Laden still alive? I have dealt with this question in a recent little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?  The present essay summarizes the main points of this book.

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China maps an end to the Afghan war

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2009

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

2nd October, 2009

The article “Afghan peace needs a map” [1] which appeared in the English-language China Daily newspaper on Monday should receive careful attention. China Daily is government-owned and the article is a very rare piece of focused opinion that proposes concrete steps to be taken on the way forward in unlocking the Afghan stalemate.

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US-Russia: Cold War or Warm Reset?

Posted by seumasach on October 1, 2009

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If Afghanistan is its test, NATO is failing

Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009

John Feffer

Asia Times

1st October, 2009

Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [1] is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility. Despite the smiles and reassuring rhetoric at its annual summits, its internal politics have become fractious to the point of dysfunction. Perhaps like any sexagenarian in this age of health-care crises and economic malaise, the transatlantic alliance is simply anxious about its future.

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