Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2012
Jim Lobe
7th December, 2012
WASHINGTON – Increasingly distressed over the possible consequences of Israel’s recent steps to punish the Palestinian Authority (PA) and consolidate its hold on the West Bank, a number of prominent voices here are urging President Barack Obama to exert real pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse course.
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Posted by seumasach on December 1, 2012
“While the main goal is ousting Mr. Assad, the United Nations and some American officials talk of a negotiated deal to limit the bloodshed”
This article suggests to me that Obama is backing away in Syria even on the mantra “Assad must go”.
30th November, 2012
Syrian rebels are making headway against President Bashar al-Assad. In recent weeks, they have seized several military bases and shot down military aircraft, reportedly with shoulder-fired missiles, but there is no end in sight to the war. More than 40,000 Syrians have been killed, 2.5 million are now displaced and more than 600,000 are refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
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Posted by seumasach on November 30, 2012
Thierry Meyssan
28th November, 2012
Enjoying a legitimacy reinforced by his reelection, President Barack Obama is preparing to launch a new foreign policy – drawing the conclusions from the relative economic weakening of the United States, he has renounced the idea of governing the world on his own. US forces continue their departure from Europe and their partial disengagement from the Middle East in order to take up positions around China. From this perspective, he wants to weaken the developing Russo-Chinese alliance at the same time as sharing the burden of the Middle East with Russia. Consequently, he is ready to apply the agreement on Syria which was reached on the 30th June in Geneva – deployment of a UN peace force, composed mainly of troops from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, and maintenance of Bachar el-Assad in power if he is designated by his people.
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2012
Spengler
27th November, 2012
It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world’s population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2012
So, the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens at Benghazi has turned out to be a defining moment for the US’ Middle East strategy. Obama made it clear the US is nowhere near deciding to arm the Syrian opposition fighters.
This stance won’t go down well in Riyadh, Doha and Ankara. Interestingly, Obama is also refusing to endorse the enthusiasm shown by Britain and France.
15th November, 2012
President Barack Obama reiterated at his first press conference in Washington after election victory on Wednesday that his “top priority” will be far on the recovery of the US economy — “jobs and growth”. The only foreign-policy issues to figure were the Iran problem and Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on September 29, 2012
In fact, what is so remarkable is how little Romney has been able to take advantage of all this
Edward Spannaus
24th September, 2012
Sept. 24—Within days of the mass circulation ofLyndon LaRouche’s statement, demanding Obama’s immediate impeachment for his complicity in a new 9/11, and for ignoring specific warnings of a possible attack in Benghazi, Libya (see last issue), the White House coverup of the truth about the attack on the U.S. consultate there, began to unravel. The most noticeable shift was when, on Sept. 20, White House press spokesman Jay Carney was forced to admit that the Sept. 11 killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. employees was an act of terrorism. Just days earlier, he and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice had been desperately claiming that the attack was a spontaneous act of mob violence in response to a pathetic anti-Islam movie trailer posed on YouTube, and not a premeditated attack on the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2012
24th September, 2012
The “Benghazi moment” is likely engendering a rethink in the United States’ regional strategies in the Middle East. One is inclined to agree with the Time magazine’s assessment that a Libya-style intervention by the US in Syria now becomes highly unlikely. A curious aspect of Tony Karon’s analysis is that he tosses the Syrian ball into the court of the Arab governments.
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Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2012
Professor Soul Gaika Kuni
20th September, 2012
The presidential election campaign is reaching fever pitch in the United States, but for Africans the zeal, pomp, zest and funfair over Barack Obama’s prospects of winning is non-existent. Unlike Obama’s first election campaign, Africans have nothing to celebrate about, for, they now know Obama as just another American president, pushing the same natural resources exploitation agenda.
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Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012
Pepe Escobar
20th September, 2012
Willard “Mitt” Romney comfortably sees himself as the chief executive officer of a US$1 billion enterprise – the Republican Party election campaign that should place him as the next President of the United States (POTUS). Meanwhile, current POTUS Barack Obama is increasingly convinced he just needs to deploy a secret weapon to clinch re-election.
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Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2012
It takes , seemingly, an outside perspective to tell us what is happening in the West. The regime change programme had already failed. The US chiefs-of staff didn’t like the proposed no-fly-zone or the Banghazi-style safe havens. Now the Benghazi style has become very unfashionable overnight. The problem for the US is that “you can’t retreat” and especially you can’t retreat leaving your NATO allies, France and Turkey, twisting in the wind. The US has to abandon its Al Qaeda and Salafists allies in Syria without endangering the unity of NATO. The Benghazi attack gives them the pretext to do that and the allies will understand that there is no choice. Already the arch-hawk Fabius, French foreign secretary, is reduced to only calling for more sanctions against Assad. At the same time rotation is likely with Obama and left going down with the ship of regime change and the way opening up to a Romney presidency and whatever that might bring.
13th September, 2012
Washington, Sept. 13: The fatal attack on the American ambassador to Libya and three other US personnel at their consulate in Benghazi has had the immediate result of ending the prospect of any western military effort to change the regime in Syria in the foreseeable future.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th September, 2012
At a time when the United States-Russia “reset” lies in limbo, it should come as no surprise that President Vladimir Putin has made one of the most important statements of his four-month-old presidency, drawing attention to the commonality of interests between the two major world powers and indeed between Russia and the West on one of the hottest issues of current world politics – the Middle Eastern question.
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