Posts Tagged ‘Obama agenda’
Posted by seumasach on January 9, 2009
Is this the fruit of Israel’s terrorist assault on Gaza?
by Jim Lobe (source:
IPS)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The matchless Nelson Report has updated the news about the prospective appointment of Dennis Ross as Special Envoy for Iran, and the update is even more concerning than the original report. Chris Nelson apparently got hold of an internal memo from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy(WINEP) in which its director, Robert Satloff, outlines Ross’ much-expanded job description. It reads as if Ross will be a sort of Middle East “czar”. Here it is, as quoted in the Report:
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
“Remember, he was supposed to change the mood, tone, music with respect to America in the Arab and Muslim world,” said Miller, now apublic policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Institute.
“Well, guess what? This guy is coming into office against a backdrop of incredible bitterness and anger against Israel and, by implication, the United States,” Miller said
Yahoo
8th January, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) – When he becomes president in two weeks,Barack Obama will have little breathing room to deal with “the horrible mess” left by his predecessor George W. Bush over Israel’s war inGaza, analysts say.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
A setback for Obama’s plans
By Jim Lobe
Asia Times
6th January, 2009
WASHINGTON – Israel’s massive week-long aerial assault on Gaza and subsequent ground invasion are likely to complicate president-elect Barack Obama’s hopes of aggressively pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and risk inflicting greater damage to Washington’s standing in the Arab world, according to most analysts in Washington.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
But electoral benefits will only come with military success and that seems most unlikely. What has undoubtedly been achieved by this invasion is to compromise Obama, to lock him in to the neo-con agenda of endless conflict in the Middle East at a moment when he showed clear signs, under his mentors Brzezinski and Soros, of wanting diplomacy in the Middle East with a view to refocusing US aggression against Russia and China. His agenda is in ruins and the US remains hitched to an Israel veering out of control.
Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
31st December, 2008
Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.
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Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008
This interview is dated 21st October on youTube. Subsequent events appear to have confirmed much of Tarpley’s analysis: we have already had the Georgia War, the Mumbai bombings aimed, it would appear,
to bring India into the US/UK orbit, a
renewed campaign against Zimbabwe and , now,
warnings against Russia for selling missiles to Iran as well as renewed efforts to establish
US military bases in Central Asia. I had tended towards scepticism with regard to Tarpley’s analysis on the basis that this agenda is completely mad. I now bow to Tarpley’s superior insight: this agenda exists in spite of , or, even, because of, the fact that it is mad.
Webster G. Tarpley
21st December, 2008
Click on above link to view interview
In this interview, conducted by Deep Journal before the 4 November elections, Webster Tarpley expounds on the topic of his recently published book “Obama, The Postmodern Coup,The Making of a Manchurian Candidate”. Does Obama represent a real change or is it the same old imperialism with cosmetic surgery?
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Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States and Ukraine have agreed on strategic partnership in economic development, energy and defense aiming to strengthen Kiev’s potential as a NATO aspiring state.
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Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008
Gareth Porter
Asia Times
20th December
WASHINGTON – United States military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete pullout of all US combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.
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Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
20th December, 2008
The measure of success of president-elect Barack Obama’s new “Afghan strategy” will be directly proportional to his ability to delink the war from its geopolitical agenda inherited from the George W Bush administration.
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Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2008
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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