Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Afghanistan, Multipolar world, Obama agenda, Russia-India-China (RIC), Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", 9/11, Afghanistan, CIA torture, Close Guantanamo!, Torture?-Yes we can! | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
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 »
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Afghanistan, China | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", 9/11, Afghanistan | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read more
Posted in Disband NATO!, Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, Death of Nato, missile defence system | Leave a Comment »