Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2009
Larry Chin
1st August, 2009
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
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Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009
Having gone to all that trouble in invading Iraq the US can’t even use it to subvert neighbouring Iran using one of their favourite terrorist organisations.
29th July, 2009
US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely.
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Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2009
This is the logical outcome of Obama’s brilliant foreign policy of threatening both Russia and Iran
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
30th July, 2009
The United States may think of Russia as a strategic partner when it comes to Iran. In reality, the geostrategic tensions between Washington and Moscow are still powerful enough to warrant a common approach by Russia and its eastern neighbor Iran with respect to a deterrent strategy towards the intrusive Western superpower.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009
Stephen Gowans
24th July, 2009
United4Iran, which describes itself as “a non-partisan collaborative of individuals and human rights organizations” whose “aim is to support the Iranian people’s human rights,” has organized a Global Day of Action for July 25.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009
A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland
Justin Raimundo
24th July, 2009
An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.
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Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2009
Eric Wallberg
21st July, 2009
Obama’s geopolitical demarche in Russia’s backyard is moving ahead nicely… First there was the election in Bulgaria 5 July which brought a new party to power — Boyko Borisov’s Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. Borisov, or Batman, as he is affectionately called, was a Communist-era policeman who subsequently established a prosperous private security business and has been the mayor of Sofia since 2005. He campaigned on the usual — to fight corruption and secure a better economic future. The Batman bragged in an interview with Der Spiegel of receiving “letters of accolade” from the CIA and FBI, presumably for his battle with the dark forces. One of the first things he did as PM, however, was to suspend the existing energy contracts with Moscow, both the South Stream and a nuclear power plant project.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2009
Q. Is Obama better than Bush?
A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one.
By Stephen Gowans
17th July, 2009
US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal parts jaw dropping hypocrisy, outright fiction, sound advice for Africans if taken literally, and advocacy for institutions ideally suited to capital accumulation in Africa by Western investors. Africans should heed the US president’s call to embrace the idea that Africa’s future is up to Africans (and Africans alone) and to build their own nations, but the path Obama proposes, if followed, would condemn Africa to continued underdevelopment and perpetual dependence on the West.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
17th July, 2009
There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical “New Economy.”
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2009
F.Wlliam Engdahl rense.com
19th July, 2009
One of his first foreign visits as new President took Barack Obama to Ankara for a high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and other leading Turkish officials. Obama engaged in classical “horse trading” wheeling and dealing. “I give you support for Turkey’s EU membership; you open the diplomatic door to Armenia,” appears to have been the core of the deal. What other inducements the US President gave in the case of Turkish influence within NATO and such is secondary. Obama’s goal was to break a political deadlock in Turkey to construction of a major gas pipeline to Germany and other EU countries in direct opposition to Russian Gazprom’s South Stream pipeline. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Iran/Nicaragua : nouveau mensonge d’Hillary Clinton
Thierry Meyssan
16th July, 2009
La secrétaire d’État Hillary Clinton s’est publiquement inquiétée de la construction d’une méga-ambassade iranienne au Nicaragua. Sur les plateaux de télévision US, des « experts » ont disserté sur les opérations militaires secrètes que les Gardiens de la Révolution iranienne prépareraient en Amérique latine contre les intérêts états-uniens et israéliens. Mais quelle est la base factuelle de ce tintamarre médiatique ?
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Matti Friedman
15th July, 2009
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Israeli warships sailed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, Israeli and Egyptian officials said, a move that appeared to be a new signal to Iran that Israel’s reach could quickly extend to its archenemy’s backyard.
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