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US Switching From Afghanistan to Central Asia

Moscow (Russia) | 31 July 2011

The hypothesis that the US is planning a partial relocation of its military infrastructures from Afghanistan to Central Asia appears to be gaining momentum. A dead giveaway, according to columnist Aleksandr Shustov, is the heigthened intensity of Washington’s diplomatic transactions with (...)

Geo-Strategic Chessboard Pushing India Towards War With China

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Montreal (Canada) | 24 October 2009

Since 1947, India never fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. For over a century, New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its (...)

Iran: The threat of a nuclear war

by General Leonid Ivashov

6 April 2007

Strongly convinced that a US nuclear strike on Iran is imminent, General Ivashov analysis the probable outcomes of a United-Stator-Irani war. He confirms, for example, that such a conflict will lead to a military one between Tel Aviv and Tehran which will immediately evolve into a religious (...)

“U.S. must act now to end genocide in Sudan”

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

10 March 2006

In Darfur, we are witnessing a methodical kind of genocide which has claimed between 180,000 and 400,000 Sudanese lives and the displacement of 2 million people since the early 2004. That is the result of systematic elimination campaign launched by the Sudanese regime, whose target are the (...)

“We should be very worried about Iran”

by John Keegan

27 January 2006

I was in favour of the war against Iraq but had my doubts, which I still have. Those who are against it have their reasons and they could even use the Machiavellian argument that Saddam Hussein was a valuable allied against Iran. And today we have realized that Iran wants to become a nuclear (...)

“It’s time to end to the shame”

by James J. Zogby

20 January 2006

Three years ago, thousands of Arabs and Muslims were called to the Immigration offices to be registered, photographed, interrogated, and fingerprinted. It was the first stage of a National Security Entrance and Exit Registration System (NSEERS) – a program launched by John Ashcroft and (...)

“Has Syria been blixed?”

by Linda S. Heard

22 November 2005

Detlev Mehlis, head of the UN Commission investigating the assassination of Rafic Hariri, told Der Stern magazine that he knew his report would make the campaign against Syria easier and that he understood what Hans Blix has felt. However, contrary to Blix who has admitted he suffered (...)

“Punishing Syria will boomerang”

by Amir Taheri

22 November 2005

While the Security Council discusses the Mehlis report, thinking about the best and the worst of all possible scenarios is convenient. At the very best, the Security Council would ask Syria to cooperate and it will agree. Therefore, inspectors will be allowed to question the suspects. In the (...)

“Post-9/11 US foreign policy is in doldrums”

by Marwan Al Kabalan

19 September 2005

Four years after September is about time to look at the policy conducted by George W. Bush and to see if, in effect, it has made the United States a safer place. Bush’s revolution in foreign policy was outlined in the 2002 National Security Strategy, the US’s official response to the September (...)

“Turning Point in Middle East Peace”

by William B. Quandt, Zbigniew Brzeziński

5 July 2005

George W. Bush’s statements during his recent meeting with Mahmud Abbas deserve our attention. It had an impact on Israel, but not on the U.S. Bush said that Israel and Palestine final statute should “be the fruit of an agreement between the different parties and that the changes in the lines (...)

“Islamist Regime In Total Control”

by Amir Taheri

4 July 2005

The second round of Iran presidential elections has caused an earthquake. Mahmud Ahmadineyad has become president, defeating one of the regime’s greatest leaders since 1979. Ahmadineyad is the most learned of all Iranian presidents and is the first president of the Islamist Republic who has a (...)

“A barrier to Islamic evil”

by Reuven Daniel

1 July 2005

The recent developments in Uzbekistan, in which a lot of people died, were not, as interpreted by a great number of organizations and Western governments, a battle for human rights, a battle of the good against the bad. This uprising was organized by fundamentalists who claim to be an innocent (...)

“There is progress in Iraq”

by Kofi Annan

30 June 2005

I am in Brussels to join the representatives of more than 80 governments and institutions meeting to send a loud and clear message of support for the political transition in Iraq. A year ago, Resolution 1546 of the Security Council set out the time table that Iraq was expected to fulfill. (...)

“U.S. denial of Amnesty report is absurd”

by Adel Safty

28 June 2005

Amnesty International recently condemned the “war crimes in Iraq and the evidence of torture and ill-treatment in American prisons.” Amnesty said that considering the U.S. power in the world such actions were a global threat to right and security. George W. Bush rejected these accusations by (...)

“I had to defend Russia’s honor before the court of The Hague”

by General Leonid Ivashov

19 May 2005

I had to testify during 10 hours in the case of Milosevic. I still have to defend the former head of the General Staff of the Yugoslavian armies, General Dragoljub Oidanic. I was shocked by the record of my hearing; it was full of mistakes, omissions and incomplete phrases. With the military (...)

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