- Voltairenet
- 19th April, 2010
- The departure of the CIA number 2 man should throw light on the inner functioning of the U.S. intelligence agency. Stephen Kappes, who had already left in 2004, epitomized the most despicable methods employed by the Agency but couldn’t produce any convincting results to justify them. Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the CIA’s “old wiseman” will throw in the towel so readily. Whatever transpires, the internal enmities should in the long run benefit Michael Morell, already well positioned to become the next CIA Director. In sum, though the indiscriminate post-September 11 methods may stand to be sanctioned, the men behind 9/11 can now look forward to seizing full control of the Agency.
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Posts Tagged ‘Obama agenda’
Clean sweep at the CIA
Posted by seumasach on April 20, 2010
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No Obama Administration plan in sight for closing Guantánamo
Posted by seumasach on April 20, 2010
16th April, 2010
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on 14 April 2010 turned sour.
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Obama Threatens Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Tehran’s Response. Full Text of Iran UN Ambassador Letter to UNSC
Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran’s UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee called for the Security Council and other UN related bodies to show serious opposition to the US President’s nuclear policies and his threat against an NPT signatory which does not hold nuclear weapons.
Following the US President Barack Obama’s remarks that America will not restrict conditions of using nuclear weapons against Iran and North Korea, Khazaee sent a letter to the presidents of the UN Security Council Yukio Takasu and General Assembly Ali Treki and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and said threats of the US officials against Iran are inhuman and go against international rules and commitments.
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L’administration Obama n’a plus de projet de fermeture de Guantánamo
Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2010
16th April, 2010
L’audition de l’Attorney General des Etats-Unis, Eric Holder, par la Commission sénatoriale de la Justice a tourné au vinaigre, le 14 avril 2010.
Interrogé sur la fermeture, toujours promise et maintes fois différée, de la prison de Guantánamo, M. Holder a été incapable non seulement de donner une date, mais d’indiquer ses intentions. Quinze mois après sa nomination, le secrétaire à la Justice n’a toujours aucune idée des détenus qui doivent être libérés et de ceux qui doivent être jugés par des tribunaux civils.
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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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A titanic power struggle in Kabul
Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2010
As befits the oligarchical mindset, US/UK seek to weaken central power, and therefore sovereignty, in Afghanistan thereby maintaining it as a base for operations to destabilise Russia and China; “the great game for the containment of Russia, China and Iran is about to commence in earnest”.
M K Bhadrakumar
13th March, 2010
The flurry of diplomatic activity in Kabul during the past week heralded the opening shots of a titanic power struggle, the outcome of which will largely determine the contours of an Afghan settlement.
In what is shaping up as a multi-layered power struggle, the principal protagonists are the United States and Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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The Rogue Nation
Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2010
Philip Giraldi
11th March, 2010
In spite of the fact that the United States faces no enemy anywhere in the world capable of opposing it on a battlefield, the Defense budget for 2011 will go up 7.1 percent from current levels. A lot of the new spending will be on drones, America’s latest contribution to western civilization, capable of surveilling large areas on the ground and delivering death from the skies. It is a peculiarly American vision of warfare, with a “pilot” sitting at a desk half a world away and pressing a button that can kill a target far below. Hygienic and mechanical, it is a bit like a video game with no messy cleanup afterward. The recently released United States Quadrennial Defense Review reports how the Pentagon will be developing a new generation of super drones that can stay airborne for long periods of time and can strike anywhere in the world and at any time to kill America’s enemies. The super drones will include some that can fly at supersonic speeds and others that will be large enough to carry nuclear weapons. Some of the new drones will be designed for the navy, able to take off from aircraft carriers and project US power to even more distant hot spots. Drones are particularly esteemed by policymakers because as they are unmanned and can fly low to the ground they can violate someone’s airspace “accidentally” without necessarily resulting in a diplomatic incident.
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Natural law brings AfPak crashing
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
“Second, unlike in the 1990s, the US’s influence is much diminished today, but its diplomats work as if they operate in a unipolar world. The plain truth is that regional powers like India, Iran or even Pakistan are far from convinced about the US’s AfPak policy. And they can be expected to do their utmost to safeguard their interests, no matter what the US diplomats prescribe as good enough.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
6th March, 2010
Be it a baseball struck in a neighborhood sandlot game or in high-wire diplomacy, an elementary principle of physics holds good – what goes up must come down. In a way, the sheer dynamics of the nosedive of the United States’ AfPak diplomacy in the four weeks since the London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 can be attributed to gravitational pulls.
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Afghan Resistance against US Invaders- US surge goes full steam ahead in Marjah
Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2010
Eric Walberg
25th February, 2010
Apart for Abu Ghraib, Fallujah is perhaps the Iraq war’s defining moment. The hatred and resentment of the occupied people found a catalyst in the four Blackwater mercenaries, who were killed and strung up, and no doubt deserved their fate, certainly as symbols of a cynical, illegal invasion. The US soldiers — who are just as mercenary, being a professional army invading a country sans provocation — came and “destroyed the village to save it.”
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Historical Facts: Orange, Rose, and Green uprisings failed to live up to their promise
Posted by seumasach on February 13, 2010
Paul Robinson
12th February, 2010
While many will no doubt see it as a source of consternation, the election of Viktor Yanukovych as president of Ukraine is really a cause for celebration. The defeat of the leaders of the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, is actually good news.
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Iran Speaks Up
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010
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In These New Times 