Bill Van Auken
16th April, 2011
Hundreds protested in Saudi Arabia Friday demanding an end to the Saudi occupation of Bahrain and the release of the dictatorial kingdom’s political prisoners.
Posts Tagged ‘Arab revolution’
Saudi Protests Against Bahrain Invasion, Repression
Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2011
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Saudi money wins Obama’s mind
Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
19th April, 2011
Twice during the past week senior United States officials have let it be known that the Barack Obama administration has chosen to adopt a highly selective approach to the ferment in the Middle East.
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Billion-dollar Obama rocks Yemen
Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2011
Pepe Escobar
6th April, 2011
Go, go, you coward; you are an American agent
– Protesters chanting in Sana’a, March 24
So far no R2P (“responsibility to protect”). No United Nations resolution. No no-fly zone. No “coalition of the willing”. No Tomahawks. No Predator drones. No C-130 gun ships. No humanitarian imperialism.
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The Mask of Anarchy
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
6th January, 2008
“Last came Anarchy: he rode
On a white horse, splashed with blood;
He was pale even to the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.
And he wore a kingly crown;
And in his grasp a sceptre shone;
On his brow this mark I saw –
‘I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'”
“The Mask of Anarchy”-P.B.Shelley
Just as Ariel Sharon’s visit to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque in 1999 prefigured US foreign policy under Bush, I have a sense that a new spirit already suffuses through US policy even though Bush still has a year to go in office.The high noon of the neo-cons has been and gone and the ultimate paroxysm of their madness, the bombing of Iran, no longer seems likely. But from Pakistan to Bolivia, from Kosovo to Kenya this new spirit is a work: the spirit of anarchy.
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Neo-cons target Assad regime
Posted by seumasach on March 31, 2011
Jim Lobe
1st April, 2011
WASHINGTON – Despite the clear opposition of the Barack Obama administration and apparent ambivalence on the part of the right-wing government in Israel, neo-conservative hawks here have set their sights on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who they hope will be the next domino to fall to the so-called “Arab spring”.
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Britain praises ties with the despot
Posted by seumasach on March 30, 2011
30th March, 2011
The ambassador, Jamie Brown, introduces visitors of the website of the British embassy in Bahrain to the “long history of… friendship” between London and Manama regardless of the ongoing bloody crackdown on Bahraini demonstrators.
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Turkey and the Middle East: the reshaping of regional relations
Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2011
Eric Walberg
25th March, 2011
Recent initiatives by its government attest to Turkey’s determination to bring a new realism to world politics, and events in the Arab world provide an opportunity to reshape regional relations.
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Million march for Gaddafi?
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2011
”All eyes will be on a “green march” now announced by the one million-strong al-Warfalla tribe, Libya’s largest; they had defected to the opposition but now are eager to show their loyalty to Gaddafi.”
If true, confirmation that NATO intervention has helped Gaddafi consolidate his power base, rendering more likely partition and defeat for Libya’s popular revolution. Isn’t this after all what the NATO intervention is about?
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Liberals March to War
Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2011
“Humanitarian” interventionists salute their commander-in-chief
Justine Raimondo
23rd March, 2011
Now that President Barack Obama has intervened in Libya, his army of apologists is mobilizing to defend his “humanitarianism,” declaring that his war isn’t at all like Bush’s wars. It’s something new, and different – and admirable.
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“Operation Odyssey Dawn” breaking for Washington
Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
20th March, 2011
The French strikes against Libya are not a French operation, but a subcontracting component of Odyssey Dawn Operation under the authority of U.S. AfriCom. Their objective is not to rescue Libyan civilians, but to serve as a pretext to pave the way for the landing of U.S. forces on the Black continent, notes Thierry Meyssan.
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Creepy mission- Sami Ramadani on RT
Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
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