4th December, 2013
The White House warns that a fresh effort by some US senators to impose new sanctions against Iran will send the signal that Washington negotiates in bad faith.
Posts Tagged ‘Obama agenda’
White House warns against new Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2013
Posted in Global peace process, Iran | Tagged: End of empire, Iran, Obama agenda, Obama v. congress, Obama's realist turn | Leave a Comment »
US-Israeli spat echoes in Syria and Gaza
Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2013
Victor Kotsev
4th November, 2013
The Israeli operations in Syria and the Gaza strip that took place almost simultaneously last week demonstrated just how fraught with tensions the relationship between the United States and Israel has become and how unpredictable and dangerous the period ahead is.
Posted in Palestine, Syria | Tagged: Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn, Palestine | Leave a Comment »
Can Congress, hawks and the Israel lobby wreck the US-Iran talks?
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
30th October, 2013
The Obama administration is working hard to head off a wrecking ball from Congress and the Israel lobby aimed at sabotaging negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. The talks, which resume in November, also include direct talks between the United States and Iran. The key issue: members of the House and Senate are trying to force-feed the administration yet another round of anti-Iran sanctions, at the very worst possible moment.
Posted in Global peace process, Iran | Tagged: congress v. president, Iranian diplomacy, No sanctions against Iran!, Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn | Leave a Comment »
White House Expected to ease sanctions targeting Syria …Iran to follow?
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
1st November, 2013
Pressure on Obama from Putin as part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role with bailing out the American president with the chemical weapons ‘redline’ which became a canard is one reason. Another reason is that the White House believes that it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations and even some cooperation are not completely destroyed as a result of the 32 month crisis still raging in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Posted in Global peace process, Iran, Syria | Tagged: Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn | Leave a Comment »
Obama administration presses Senate on Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Obama administration presses Senate to hold off on new round of Iran sanctions
31st October, 2012
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama administration officials convinced a number of senators on Thursday to hold off on another round of Iran sanctions as Western powers test Tehran’s willingness to scale back its nuclear aims.
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US gives up on Central Asian base
Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st October, 2013
The United States has turned its back on what could have been a thrilling episode in the Great Game in Central Asia. The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US is vacating Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan by July 2014, as demanded by Bishkek.
Posted in Global peace process | Tagged: Obama, Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn, retreat from empire, the great game | Leave a Comment »
How AIPAC lost its grip
Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013
M.J.Rosenberg
3rd October, 2013
have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy. At least I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful executive director, explained how it would happen.
Posted in Global peace process, Palestine | Tagged: AIPAC, Obama agenda, obama revolution, Obama's realist turn, Palestine | Leave a Comment »
Wal-Mart ‘Made in America’ drive follows suppliers’ lead
Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
25th September, 2013
(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc, whose focus on low-cost sourcing helped to fuel the offshoring of U.S. manufacturing, has been promoting a patriotic new image in recent months.
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Rouhani surfs the new WAVE
Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Pepe Escobar
25th September, 2013
He came. He listened. And he surfed.
“I listened carefully to the statement made by President Obama today at the General Assembly… [I’m] hoping that they will refrain from following the short-sighted interests of warmongering pressure groups and we can arrive at a framework to managing our differences.”
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Obama v. Wall Street
Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
21st Septemebr, 2013
I’ve already been called mad for my assertion over the last nine months or so that Obama is actually engaged in some kind of peace process involving a historic compromise with Russia in working a resolution of the Syria crisis as well as a broader Middle East settlement. I seem to be the only one who doesn’t know that Obama is a bad guy and that bad guys do bad things, like rocketing Syria at the first available opportunity. My detractors assessment of my mental health is about to become a lot worse since I now propose to suggest that Obama is readying to pit himself against Wall Street- yes, that’s right. Obama, the Manchurian Candidate with a chip in his brain. is about to take on the financial oligarchy of whom he is nothing other than a puppet! What could be the basis for such an exorbitant thesis?
Posted in Currency Wars, Financial crisis | Tagged: dollar collapse, Obama agenda, obama revolution, Obama v. Wall Street, Obama's realist turn | 3 Comments »
Obama again puts military strike – and vote in Congress – on hold
Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Obama again puts military strike – and vote in Congress – on hold to give Russian proposal a chance
10th September, 2013
US president Barack Obama went against the words of his advisers, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice Monday, and offered in TV interviews early Tuesday, Sept. 10, to “absolutely” put on hold military action against Syria, as well as the vote in Congress, if Bashar Assad abandoned chemical weapons. He said he found some positive signs in the Russian proposal [for Assad to hand over his chemical arsenal to international control] and said he was willing to run it to ground in the next few days to see if the Syrian issue can’t be solved without the military option.
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