Thierry Meyssan
11th February, 2013
Posts Tagged ‘Obama agenda’
In Washington, no one is responsible for the Syrian fiasco
Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
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Khamenei plays hardball with Obama
Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th February, 2013
It was an extraordinary week in the politics of the Middle East and it ended appropriately by being rounded off with a reality check lest imaginations ran riot.
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Kerry makes overture to Iran
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
10th February, 2013
The United States has neatly sidestepped the remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which apparently shut the door on direct talks between the two ancient adversaries. In sum, the Barack Obama administration ran a fine comb through Khamenei’s remarks and estimated that it is not at all as if the door for US-Iran talks has been slammed shut and the key thrown away.
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Why Obama is heading for Israel
Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
7th February, 2013
President Barack Obama’s decision to make Israel his first official visit abroad after the inauguration is both symbolic as well as hugely substantive. Symbolic in the sense that he will be underscoring the centrality of the Middle East in the United States’, foreign policy agenda, and signaling that carrying Israel along is useful.
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John Kerry enters the stage
Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
4th February, 2013
Hillary Clinton’s departure was carefully orchestrated to preserve her chances of becoming the Democratic Party’s candidate for the next presidential election. The former first lady still contemplates returning to the White House and all the bets are on for a spectacular duel in 2016 between the two political dynasties, with Jeb Bush (GWB’s elder brother) as the other contestant.
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Munich conference breaks Iran-US ice
Posted by seumasach on February 6, 2013
Kaveh Afrasiabi
5th February, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Iran and the United States are on the verge of a historical opportunity to repair their frozen relations and thus reverse the spiral of conflict spiral that for years has dominated their interactions. It is the right thing to do and at the right time, given the fact that more often than not past opportunities were lost simply because one side or the other was not “ready”.
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Obama gets it right(for a change)
Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
23rd January, 2013
You don’t have to regard Barack Obama as the the embodiment of ultimate virtue to support the recent shift towards a certain realism in Washington. He has declared an end to “war without end”. It doesn’t matter that this is only an accommodation to new realities and not the reflection of some inherent goodness in the US leader. What matters is that he is aware of reality and is accommodating to it: this is what leadership is about. He has recognised that the policy options chosen by his administration have not worked. They could have worked perhaps but they didn’t . The government of Bashar-al Assad has not collapsed in the face of Western sponsored Islamist movements and is not going to. The eurozone is not going to collapse to accommodate the US dollar. America is not going to dictate the course of world events over the coming years. The New World Order, at least not the one envisaged by Washington, London and Tel Aviv, will not come into being.Let us then applaud Barack Obama for providing us with change we might even believe in: a shift in Washington towards an acceptance of the facts, of a return to planet earth.
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David Cameron: Piggy-in-the-middle
Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
20th January, 2013
Every cloud has a silver lining and the terrible events in Algeria at least enabled David Cameron to postpone his long-awaited speech on Europe. He must be hoping he could call it off altogether and that the leaking of its contents by dribs and drabs would steal some of its thunder and render its eventual delivery a relative non-event. But what has got him into such a quandary? “Events, my dear boy! Events!”
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US Navy pulls two aircraft carriers from Syria shores
Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2012
18th December, 2012
Two aircraft carriers stationed off the Syrian coast were sent back to the US this week in a move that the Obama administration thought would ease tensions, but angered Turkish officials who hoped for significant US military presence in the region.
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Obama expected to nominate anti-Israel Hagel as secretary of defense
Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2012
16th December, 2012
US President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former Senator Chuck Hagel, an outspoken critic of Israel, as the next Pentagon chief.
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Will US Vision of Middle East Change on the Road to Damascus?
Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2012
Ben Tanosborn
11th December, 2012
will an enlightened Obama now on his second and final term in office fall off his horse on his way to Damascus… and get a new vision on America’s role in the Middle East and, hopefully, beyond that region? Asks Ben Tanosborn.
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