9th April, 2010
Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders have said they intend to remove a US military base, which currently serves as the premier air mobility hub for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, from their soil.
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Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base
Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2010
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Georgian opposition threatens to repeat Kyrgyz uprising
Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2010
The dominoes are falling as the orange revolutions go into reverse, and the US are being eased out of the former soviet republics.
8th April, 2010
Georgian opposition leaders warned the authorities on Thursday that the country could see a Kyrgyz scenario if opposition activists continue to be arrested.
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Obama, Medvedev press Iran, differ on Kyrgyzstan
Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
“But their attempt to display a united front faltered over Kyrgyzstan, with a senior Russian official saying Moscow would urge the new leaders who toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Wednesday to shut a strategic U.S. air base in the former Soviet central Asian republic.”
8th April, 2010
The United States and Russia pressed Iran on Thursday to renounce its nuclear ambitions or face new sanctions as they signed a landmark strategic nuclear disarmament treaty, but differences flared over Kyrgyzstan.
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Russia throws weight behind provisional Kyrgyz govt.
Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
Rick Rozoff, writing in Voltairenet, views this as a likely US backed coup– it doesn’t look that way to us at ITNT. Rozoff points out that Roza Otunbayeva supported the tulip revolution in 2005 as well as coloured revolution in Georgia and claims that she has already supported the continuation of the agreement with the US over the Manas air base. Past affiliation with the empire means nothing as its foundations crumble, witness the case of Karzai in Afghanistan, and Otunbayeva seems rather to have called for a review of the agreement regarding the base. Bakiyev has not crossed the US as far as we’re aware and the fact that he has sought to maintain power at all costs suggests that they haven’t ditched him. Rather, it would appear, his power base has eroded completely and Russia has not hesitated to recognise and support the provisional government, sensing a strengthening of their position in “the Great Game”.
If sour grapes are a good indicator of ebbing Anglo-American power then this piece in the Guardian confirms our thesis.
8th April, 2010
Russia on Thursday threw its weight behind the provisional Kyrgyz government, which took power in the capital and several regions of the ex-Soviet Central Asian state after two days of violent protests in which 74 people died and more than 500 were injured.
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Buchanan: Iran sanctions pave way to new war US can’t afford
Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2010
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Karzai threatens to join the Taliban
Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2010
6th April, 2010
President Hamid Karzai has threatened to step down and join the Taliban if outside pressure for reform continues, Afghan lawmakers say.
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Karzai steps up attack against US war policy
Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2010
5th April, 2010
Afghan President Hamid karzai says there will be no military operation in the southern province of Kandahar unless the Afghan people support it.
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Night raids belie McChrystal’s new image
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2010
Gareth Porter
2nd April, 2010
General Stanley McChrystal has recently acquired the image of a master strategist of the population-sensitive counterinsurgency, reducing civilian casualties from air strikes and insisting that troops avoid firing when civilians might be hit during the recent offensive in Helmand Province. One recent press story even referred to a “McChrystal Doctrine” that focuses on “winning over civilians rather than killing insurgents”.
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Tarpley-US strategic position crumbling worldwide
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2010
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Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
24th March, 2010
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.
Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it.
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Vladmir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasian empire
Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2010
In this cretinous piece of paranoia, a completely normal and logical development comparable to the setting up of Asean, the Eurozone , ALBA or indeed NAFTA is presented as a bid by the evil Putin to rebuild the Soviet Union. But wasn’t the USSR,,,er, communist? This reds under the beds piece is in fact a venting of frustration about what is happening in the world: it’s multipolarity with several centres of power balancing each other, rather than “full spectrum dominance’ with US/UK the global masters, much to the chagrin of Murdoch. So much for us being good losers.
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