12th June, 2011
Russia has protested against the presence of a US Navy cruiser in the Black Sea which is preparing for joint naval exercises with Ukraine.
Posts Tagged ‘Obama agenda’
US cruiser in Black Sea angers Russia
Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2011
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Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey
Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2011
26th May, 2011
When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”.
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US breathes life into a new cold war
Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
7th June, 2011
There might have been a difference of opinion between the classical Greek dramatist Aeschylus and British romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the circumstances of the release of the Titan god Prometheus from captivity: whether it followed reconciliation with Jupiter, as the classicist thought, or a rebellion, as the romantic insisted. In either case, Prometheus was “unbound”.
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Middle East rift mars US-Russia ‘reset’
Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th May, 2011
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus.
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The voice of an empire in decline
Posted by seumasach on May 23, 2011
Jody McIntyre
20th May, 2011
Why do we tune in to watch a North American President giving a speech about the “Middle East”? Can we change the channel and watch the President of China pontificating on the “Far West”, or an African President telling Europeans that they have a choice between hope and hate? In the words of hip-hop artist Lowkey, Barack Obama’s speech was not much more than “the eloquent voice of an empire in decline”.
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What Obama could not possibly say
Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2011
Pepe Escobar
21st May, 2011
Facts on the ground will decide whether the United States really “values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator”.
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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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Obama’s Middle East narrative
Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2011
“The Middle East is an issue which has plagued the region for…. centuries”
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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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Mullah Omar gets a Russian visitor
Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
24th March, 2011
He can be disarmingly charming. Like any ethnic Uzbek. Plus he has cultivated a great sense of humor, especially the sardonic variety that is a Russian trademark, which sees you through adversities. He was trained in the tricks of his trade at the best professional schools in Moscow.
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Clinton off the mark on Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
23rd February, 2011
The Barack Obama administration’s choice of Marc Grossman as successor to the late Richard Holbrooke, former special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is significant for three reasons. If Grossman’s diplomatic career spanned Pakistan and the Afghan mujahideen at a time when Pakistan was a “frontline” state for the United States, his two stints in Turkey in a bygone era, including as ambassador, make him an “expert” on the strange workings of a political democracy run by the country’s military.
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