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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Russia Urges Conclude To Syria Ultimatums
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November 29, 2011
Russia's foreign minister has dismissed calls for a UN arms embargo on Syria and explained the worldwide group need to end threatening Damascus with ultimatums.
Sergei Lavrov's responses arrived soon after the United States and the European Union on November 28 named for the UN Safety Council to get motion in reaction to alleged atrocities dedicated by Syrian routine forces for the duration of an 8-month crackdown on protesters.
Also on November 28, the UN Human Legal rights Council explained that Syrian troops and safety forces had dedicated crimes versus humanity, like murder, torture, and rape soon after orders ended up granted from the "greatest ranges" of President Bashar al-Assad's routine.
The Arab League has imposed sanctions on Syria around the violence which the United Nations states has killed far more than three,five hundred men and women considering that March.
Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, in a Television job interview on November 29 explained the worldwide group may possibly make a decision a buffer zone is essential in Syria if hundreds of hundreds of men and women consider to flee the violence there.
Meanwhile, the Turkish transportation minister, Binali Yildirim, explained that Turkey is taking into consideration employing Iraq as a transit route for trade with the Center East if the predicament in Syria deteriorates even more.
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US ships 21-tonne tear fuel cargo to Tahrir, Egypt claims no
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Port workers in Egypt have refused to receive a shipment of tear fuel ordered by the country’s Interior Ministry from the United States. They fear it will be used against protesters in Tahrir Square.
Employees at the Adabiya Seaport in coastal metropolis Suez revealed transport documents for delivery of a somme of 21 tonnes of the crowd-dispersal agent, local mediareport.
The revelation comes as the first 7.5-tonne shipment from the American port of Wilmington arrived to Egypt. Some of the port workers refused to accept the cargo and made the deal public, provoking an official investigation into their actions.
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Egyptian police have been regularly using tear fuel and other riot control equipment against the protesters who gather each day on Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Apparently the stocks have run low and had to be replenished.
The news angered many Egyptians, who asked why the interim federal government is buying tear fuel instead of food to feed those without the money to feed themselves and jobs to earn their dwelling.
Meanwhile the country has passed the first round of its a few-stage parliamentary election. The voting was marred by violence on Tuesday night time, in which some 80 protesters were injured.
Russian arms in US backyard: Back in Cuba
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Russia has launched a military partnership project with its Cold War ally Cuba, amid rising tensions over US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in Europe.
Russian contractors are to supply production equipment for manufacturing 6.52-mm rifle rounds, Kommersant daily reports. Cuban arms plant called Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara will also receive a license and technology for recycling used ammo.
The daily cites its sources as saying that Havana officials decided to purchase the equipment after visiting a similar production line in Venezuela. The insider did not reveal any details on the financial terms of the future deal, but said it was close to being sealed.
Russian arms producers further hope to win a contract for upgrading the whole ammunition plant in the future. It was built in late 1970s early 1980s with the help of Soviet specialists.
The United States are maintaining a decades-old trade blockade of Cuba. Russian companies, which would supply military equipment there, risk sanctions by the US.
Communist Cuba was a major ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, with an estimated gross value of arms supplied to Havana reaching $16 billion. The USSR delivered tanks, Mig fighter jets, helicopters, rocket air defense systems, submarines, small arms, communication equipment among other things. The close military collaboration resulted in the most serious tension of the period, when Moscow deployed its missiles on the island in response to a similar move by the US in Turkey.
The collapse of the USSR and the economic perils new Russia faced weakened its trade and military ties with Cuba. In 2001 Russia shut down the radio reconnaissance base in Cuba, the last of its military facilities there.
However in the late 2000s Moscow and Havana began to re-establish relations on many levels. In September 2008 two Russian strategic bombers carrying top Air Forces brass visited Venezuela. The aviation generals also visited Cuba and later voiced possible plans for renting and upgrading an air base on the La Orchila Island, which would allow Russian military aircraft patrol the Caribbean.
Also in 2008, Russian Army generals visited Cuba to inspect its air defense forces. Possible upgrade of the old equipment and supply of spare parts was on the table. The moves were viewed by many observers as Russian response to the Bush administration plans to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system in Europe.
The news on the upcoming round production deal comes as Moscow and Washington are reaching new heights of tension over AMD system. The US refuses to provide guaranties that the system would not be used against Russia.
Russia’s latest move in the row was to open a new early warning radar in its western exclave, the Kaliningrad Region. President Medvedev has also threatened deployment of short-range ballistic missiles capable of destroying American ABM facilities, should it be required.
Vladimir Anokhin, the vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, does not believe that signing the military contract with Cuba is some kind of Russian geopolitical answer to US plans to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system in Europe.
“This is a common business deal by Rosoboronexport,” Anokhin said.
Anokhin however noted that Cuba has always been in Russia’s “area of interest” and said that at this moment no one can hamper the improvement of Russia-Cuba military cooperation.
“As a sovereign state we will not fall under any sanctions from the US,” Anokhin said. “At this point the US is not in a position [to ban Russia trade with Cuba]. It will be more trouble for the US than it is worth.”
Strike 1: Uk civil servants cripple region
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A lot more than 2 million participants set the public sector on hold in the Uk, as unions stage a enormous public sector strike. It is the greatest of its sort in 30 a long time.
A public providers strike referred to as for by the United Kingdom’s Trades Union Congress (TUC), has taken result on Wednesday, the greatest perform stoppage of its sort in a lot more than 30 a long time. The strike targets public universities, the wellness sector, Uk court techniques and transportation techniques as properly. A lot more than 2 million staff are predicted to participate, in rallies and picket lines all across the region.
At the heart of the concern are cuts to public sector pension plans asking staff to add 3% a lot more of their very own funds into the method, raising the retirement age to the age of 66 by the 12 months 2020 and to amend pensions to be based mostly on the regular of a occupation fairly than the ultimate income. Unions are strongly towards the proposed reforms which the TUC argues would make staff pay out a lot more and perform more time for fewer rewards.
These adjustments in the pensions will suggest a good deal to public sector staff, public sector teacher Preeti Pancsar advised RT.
“I’ll have to perform till my late 60s, early 70s. And also I won’t be ready to find the money for holidays and this sort of items. The adjustments will make we will pay out a lot more and perform more time, and get significantly less at the stop of it,” she mentioned.
The government’s continually declaring that there is no funds, and that is the purpose for these pension adjustments. But at the identical time they are bailing out international locations in the eurozone, when Britain is not even a member of the eurozone.
Sinrit Birk, yet another public sector teacher, mentioned it is excellent to aid other international locations, but one particular wants to kind out one’s very own region very first.
“I feel it is unfair to just take funds from the pensions when there are so several techniques they can do it and aid the eurozone, if it’s what they want to do,” she explained.
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Strain Mounts on Syria, Federal government Raids Carry on
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November 29, 2011
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Syria is dealing with elevated strain from globe powers to finish its crackdown on dissent, but activists say violence in the nation carries on to escalate.
An activist with the Syrian Observatory for Human Legal rights claims that Syrian forces have publicly executed 22 activists in a Damascus suburb, Rankus, and arrested about six hundred individuals. The opposition team claims the suburb had been below siege because Sunday, when forces backed by tanks pushed into the location.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and Germany say the U.N. Protection Council should reply to Syria's crackdown on anti-federal government protesters following U.N. investigators comprehensive grave legal rights abuses they say had been ordered by the "best amounts" of President Bashar al-Assad's federal government.
On Monday, a U.N. commission investigating allegations of human legal rights violations in Syria accused federal government troops of "summary execution, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, as nicely as violations of children's legal rights."
The report stated Syrian forces have killed 256 kids and that "torture was used similarly to grownups and kids." The group's findings will now go to the Human Legal rights Council and the U.N. Common Assembly, which will determine what to do subsequent.
Turkey stated Tuesday that it might shift its Center East trade routes to go via Iraq - reducing out Syria as a transit nation if unrest there worsens and embargoes in opposition to Damascus go into impact.
Turkey and Syria abolished visa needs in 2009 and had prepared to increase their trade quantity.
Also, the EU claims it ideas to impose extra sanctions on Assad's embattled federal government. EU foreign ministers will vote Thursday on proposals to additional limit trade and financial dealings with Damascus.
The United Nations claims much more than three,five hundred individuals have been killed because March in link with the uprising.
Some info for this report was supplied by AP, AFP and Reuters.
Damascus Mulls Arab League Sanctions
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November 29, 2011
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Syria claims it is thinking about methods to offer with sanctions imposed by the Arab League.
In a Tuesday information conference, the country's info minister Adnan Mahmoud stated the nation is "self-adequate" and has a "stockpile" of meals and fundamental materials.
The state-operate information company SANA claims the minister commented following a Cabinet meeting on the league's sanctions, which had been declared Sunday. There was no instant term on what methods Damascus is thinking about.
Sanctions could have way reaching impacts on trade and banking.
On Sunday, the 22-member league imposed unprecedented penalties that consist of asset freezes and journey bans. The league took the motion following Syria failed to take a strategy to permit global screens to enter the nation.
Syria is dealing with mounting foreign strain to finish its lethal crackdown on dissent, but violence has continued to escalate.
An activist with the Syrian Observatory for Human Legal rights stated Tuesday that federal government forces have publicly executed 22 activists in a Damascus suburb and arrested about six hundred individuals. The opposition team claims the suburb had been below siege because Sunday.
Meanwhile, the United States and Germany say the U.N. Protection Council should reply to Syria's crackdown, following U.N. investigators comprehensive grave legal rights abuses they say had been ordered by the "best amounts" of President Bashar al-Assad's federal government.
On Monday, a U.N. commission investigating allegations of human legal rights violations in Syria accused federal government troops of "summary execution, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, as nicely as violations of children's legal rights."
Turkey stated Tuesday that it might shift its Center East trade routes to go via Iraq -- reducing out Syria as a transit nation if unrest there worsens and embargoes in opposition to Damascus go into impact.
Also Tuesday, Saudi Arabia urged its citizens to depart Syria simply because of mounting unrest.
In an additional improvement, EU foreign ministers will vote Thursday on proposals to additional limit trade and financial dealings with Damascus.
The United Nations stated in early November that much more than three,five hundred individuals have been killed because March in link with the uprising.
Some info for this report was supplied by AFP and Reuters.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Not-so-friendly fire: US-Pakistan standoff rages on
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Much more fuel to the fire was added to US-Pakistani relations on Monday following the inside minister stated it was closing its border with Afghanistan following a US-led airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troopers.
Pakistan had currently closed the border trucks supplying American troops in Afghanistan in reaction to the airstrike but there had been no indications that the shutdown was long term. It also informed the US to vacate an air foundation on its soil. Because then NATO has been coming up with excuses and stating it will examine the “tragic and unintended” accessoire.
Earlier on Monday, a Pakistani army spokesman stated that the US-led motion continued in spite of a plea from Pakistani army commanders to quit. Also on Monday, an angry team of Islamist protesters took to the streets of Karachi to contact on the government to break its alliance with the West. “Whoever is a buddy to The united states is a traitor to the land” they chanted.
Nevertheless, there is proof pointing to the reality the accessoire was not an incident – from each sides. US media are quoting an unnamed Afghan intelligence source that is stating the airstrikes had been initiated only following a team of Afghan commandos and US Unique Forces had been fired on from the Pakistani side of the border. But a Pakistani army spokesman denied this, stating there had been no casualties on the American side to recommend Pakistan began the accessoire.
In an job interview with RT, Welsh author Phil Rees, who is a specialist on the topic of terrorism, expressed his perception that it was Pakistan or a militant team allied to Islamabad that began the skirmish.
"We’re speaking about hyperlinks to the Pakistani army, it is in their interest to provoke a firefight simply because, let us keep in mind, the interests of NATO and the interests of Pakistan are fundamentally various in this region. And consequently you have received an uneasy alliance that is been collectively for more than a decade but truly the finish objectives of each teams are various". He goes on to say that Pakistan desires to have a force comparable to the Taliban (namely, Pashtun-primarily based) managing Afghanistan as soon as the US leaves the war-torn nation in 2014. He believes the US is bound to fall short and that “the Taliban are going to return as the most political force as soon as the West is gone”. Pakistan, in his see, desires to be pulling some of the strings of the new government, which “will not be something like that, which the West had hoped when it entered Afghanistan in 2001”.
The newest bout of violence is not the initial time the armies of the United States and Pakistan arrived into immediate confrontation. Final yr two Pakistani troopers had been gunned down by a US helicopter close to the troubled Afghan-Pakistani border following Pakistani troops opened fire on American helicopters. Relations soured additional following the US carried out a covert operation close to the Pakistani richesse of Islamabad to destroy Osama bin Laden with out informing Pakistan.
Russian attorney Magnitsky 'tortured, beaten to death' – report
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The country's presidential human rights council states police torture could have led to the loss of life of a Russian attorney, who was imprisoned at the time.
This will come right after the Hermitage Money Conduite investment fund Magnitsky worked for sent the council a one hundred-page report based mostly on official documents, court components, and public statements.
"The documents we possess testify to the illegal use of rubber clubs,” mentioned council member and human rights defender Valery Borshchyov, as quoted by Interfax. “It turns out that 8 prison staff have been beating one particular prisoner.”
An ambulance arrived at the prison on the day Magnitsky died, but medical doctors have been denied entry for about an hour.
“When they have been ultimately allow in, the medical doctors noted the loss of life time distinct from that cited by the neighborhood staff – it was an hour previously,” Borshchyov mentioned. “The medical doctors also located out that Magnitsky was not in the intensive care unit, as claimed the prison’s medical doctor. He was seated on the floor, leaning towards a bunk and handcuffs have been lying nearby.”
The human rights council offered images from the morgue, which showed deep wounds from handcuffs on Magnitsky's wrists.
"This sort of wounds can not be triggered by the straightforward putting on of handcuffs,” Borshchyov mentioned. “He need to have been making an attempt to break free of charge.”
Prison personnel insist they had to cuff Magnitsky, as he was making an attempt to commit suicide and injure himself.
Members of the council insist prosecutors search into the new evidence.
37-12 months-outdated Sergey Magnitsky, who worked for a foreign investment fund, was arrested on tax evasion fees in 2009. The gravely-unwell attorney died in a pre-trial detention facility numerous months later on.
Two forensic evaluations showed that Magnitsky died of acute heart failure. Professionals confirmed that Magnitsky was suffering from heart difficulties, but that it was not at an acute stage.
His loved ones and colleagues claim he was deliberately denied healthcare aid. Two prison medical doctors have been charged with negligence in the course of the ongoing investigation.
Magnitsky mentioned the criminal scenario towards him was retaliation for his testimony, alleging the involvement of legislation enforcement officials in the embezzlement of price range cash.
The lawyer’s loss of life prompted the US to blacklist a amount of Russian citizens which it back links to the scenario. Russia slammed the move and responded with related measures towards US officials.
Russian president warns area officers more than failures
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MOSCOW, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has threatened to punish officers accountable for current failures in the area business.
“The newest failures [in area business] critically damage Russia’s competitiveness,” Medvedev informed regional reporters on Saturday. “This indicates that we require to carry out a severe examination and punish these accountable.”
He recommended that the punishment could be doled out possibly in the type of hefty fines or, if the guilt is apparent, in the type of disciplinary or even criminal penalties.
The Russian aerospace business has confronted a collection of misfortunes more than the final eleven months. In December, 2010, a Proton-M booster rocket failed to set a few Glonass-M satellites into orbit.
The start of a Rokot booster rocket carrying a army geodesic satellite Geo-IK-two ended in failure in February.
Following the initial two mishaps, a quantity of senior area business officers had been fired and Roscosmos's chief, Anatoly Perminov, was compelled to resign.
Nevertheless, the issues persisted as the aerospace business failed to manufacture the prepared quantity of spacecraft and accessoire with the launches continued.
On August eighteen, a Russian Proton-M rocket missing a prized Specific-AM4 satellite that was created to offer electronic tv and protected federal government communications for Siberia and the Far East.
1 week following the Specific-AM4 went off program, a Soyuz-U booster malfunctioned, avoiding the Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft from reaching orbit. Its particles fell in south Siberia's Altai Republic.
The most current incident entails the Phobos-Grunt interplanetary probe, which has been caught in a reduced-Earth orbit following a effective start on November nine and would most likely by no means be recovered.
The reduction of Glonass satellites by yourself price the state four.three billion rubles ($152.two million).
Revolution fact-examine: West to reap fruit of Arab Spring
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The epic battle for democracy which unfolded in Egypt in February has turned to significant disillusionment. As the aspiring revolutionaries just take a fact examine, it would seem a pattern is emerging amid nations caught up in the Arab Spring.
Virtually a 12 months right after Mubarak’s fall, Tahrir Square is once again stained with blood as normal Egyptians battle to oust the military junta which has been in electrical power given that February’s uprising.
“It’s about the dignity of the Egyptian folks. We really don't want any a lot more humiliation," states Helmi Hassan, a protester at Tahrir Square.
The circumstance carries echoes of Libya, whose ousted leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was killed previous month. Folks there have been left with a region in ruins and a authorities they did not pick.
“I feel there is a reign of terror heading on towards individuals who disagree with the Libyan authorities,” states anti-war activist Brian Becker.“It is not offered that way in the Western media, but it is a reign of terror. If you talk up proper now towards the new authorities in Libya, you are probably to go to jail or be executed, or disappear.”
In the meantime, Libya’s interim government – brought to electrical power by NATO – is strengthening its grip on the region.
And it now seems as if Syria may well be joining the club as the demands of NATO and some Arab states for regime adjust expand a lot more vocal. Some say the louder they get in touch with, the a lot more violent the opposition turns into.
Russia's FM, Sergey Lavrov, states that some Western nations and are overtly recommending that the opposition to hold no talks with the Assad regime.
“It seems like political provocation on an worldwide scale,” he mentioned.
Civil war is brewing in Syria. The complete area would seem to be plunging deeper into crisis. Although folks on the ground bear the brunt of the continuing wave of violence in the Middle East and North Africa, some observers say specific powers may well be fascinated in maintaining the problems boiling.
Political analyst William Endgdahl believes that effective curiosity exterior the Middle East want to carry discontent and chaos to bear to pave the way for a NATO militarisation of the area so that“the oil sources of individuals oil-prosperous nations can be place immediately into personal palms,” he states.
It is obvious to any person with eyes to see that the so-referred to as “transition to democracy” in the wake of the Arab Spring is faltering.
A lot more blood is getting shed. We are seeking at an Arab Winter, and possibly yet another Arab Spring all around the corner. As tensions rise and as specific worldwide powers push for regime adjust in a lot more Arab nations, it seems as if the wave of revolutions is set to turn into an ocean of chaos.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Cairo’s bloody saga: Protester crushed by army vehicle
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A demonstrator was crushed to death by a military vehicle in Cairo on Saturday and another four injured when protesters tried to stop Kamal Al-Ganzouri, the new prime minister appointed by Egypt’s military regime, from entering a government building.
RT’s correspondent Paula Slier reported from the Egyptian capital that eyewitnesses had told her they had seen a man being run over and killed by a military vehicle.
Reports on the victim’s identity are scanty and conflicting. What is known, however, is that Egyptian officials have apologized to the dead person’s family.
"We issued a statement of apology for the death and expressed our condolences," Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Marwan was quoted by CNN as saying.
The protests in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square intensified on Friday as people gathering for prayers got wind of the government’s decision to appoint a new prime minister.
Kamal Al-Ganzouri served as premier from 1996 to 1999 under the now-deposed president, Hosni Mubarak – a fact that was sufficient to infuriate protesters.
Hundreds had gathered to prevent him from entering the cabinet building and clashed with security forces who tried to disperse them. Three police troop carriers and an armored vehicle were chased off by rock-throwing protesters before security forces fired tear gas in return, Sky News reported.
Similar reports of security forces using tear gas have come from Alexandria, where protests continued outside the security building. The situation has caused leading human rights activists to start pointing fingers to try to bring international attention to the security forces’ use of what they say is an illegal substance.
‘Civil salvation government’
Cairo's Tahrir Square remains a sea of protesters this weekend, with tens of thousands having rallied overnight against Egypt's military rulers. More than 40 people have been killed since clashes broke out a week ago.
Sixteen Egyptian political groups issued a statement on Saturday saying that they have formed in Tahrir Square what they are calling “a civil salvation government”. They have named the former chief of the IAEA, Mohamed El-Baradei, as the head of this new government. El-Baradei is seen as a front-runner for the office of president, and as someone the army might approach with a request to become prime minister. A number of other high-profile people have been named by the new grouping his potential deputies.
A somewhat unusual situation is currently developing in Cairo, with one government having been declared on Tahrir Square and another one having been formed by the country’s military. It is worth mentioning that the influential Muslim Brotherhood is not supporting Mohamed El-Baradei in any way, adding into an already intense political rivalry among the anti-government factions.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s military regime is pressing ahead with parliamentary elections on Monday and says it will hold the presidential poll by next June.
However, the government’s concessions have not been enough to satisfy the people, whose fundamental demand remains the same – that the present regime be removed from power immediately.
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Chavez brings first shipment of gold to Venezuela from foreign vaults as global economy slides
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NATO accused of killing at least 14-25 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border assault
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S. 1253 will allow indefinite military detention of American civilians without charge or trial
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NATO helicopters hearth on checkpoint, thirteen killed – Pakistan army
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NATO helicopters have fired on a checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, in accordance to the country’s army. At minimum 13 Pakistani army troopers have been documented killed, 5 far more wounded.
The army claims the accessoire occurred on Friday night time in the Mohmand tribal place in the vicinity of the Afghan border, AP studies.
Two intelligence officers and a single federal government official, talking on problem of anonymity, explained Saturday that 5 troopers ended up also wounded in the assault.
Very last calendar year US helicopters unintentionally killed two Pakistani troopers in the vicinity of the border, prompting Pakistan to quickly shut the border to materials transported by way of the state to NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Impeccable-and-dime Xmas for NY?
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Tis the period as soon as once more and RT’s Lori Harfenist, “the Resident”, has been inquiring New Yorkers just how a lot of a strike their routines have taken simply because of the awful economic climate.
The international monetary rollercoaster has produced hundreds of thousands of individuals about the globe tighten their belts. With “Black Friday” more than, New York dwellers communicate out on whether or not it is heading to impact their vacation period. Some say absolutely nothing has altered as well significantly and they will appreciate buying as typical. Other people say they have merely tailored their spending budget to their decreased revenue.
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Tis the season once again and RT’s Lori Harfenist, “the Resident”, has been asking New Yorkers just how much of a hit their routines have taken because of the lousy economy.
The global financial rollercoaster has made millions of people around the world tighten their belts. With “Black Friday” over, New York dwellers speak out on whether it is heading to affect their holiday season. Some say nothing has changed too dramatically and they will enjoy shopping as usual. Others say they have simply tailored their budget to their reduced income.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Investigation opening up around Obama's drug offer
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A lawmaker from the very same social gathering as the president is inquiring for an investigation of Obama’s suspicious $433-million agreement with a democratic donor’s pharmaceutical firm for an unapproved, experimental smallpox drug.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a democratic representative from the state of Missouri, has asked the Office of Wellbeing and Human Companies to seem into the White House’s modern offer inked amongst the Obama administration and Siga Systems Inc, the company of a smallpox capsule that is coincidently owned by a key marketing campaign donor and crony of the commander-in-chief.
A report from before this thirty day period unveiled that Siga had secured a $433-million offer with the White Property to company an unapproved drug to be held in America’s surplus stockpile of smallpox treatment. The president’s connection with managing shareholder Ronald O Perelman has elevated eyebrows, but it has also been divulged that Siga was presented the sole agreement for the drug with no the federal government in search of out any levels of competition from fellow pharmaceutical firms.
The United States at the moment has $one billion value of smallpox vaccines on the all set, which is far more than ample to support the total state in circumstance of an epidemic. Even though the experimental drug, ST-246, has nevertheless to be proved powerful, it has also nevertheless to be evaluated or accredited by the FDA and is staying acquired at a whopping $255 for each capsule.
As the Siga scandal develops, Sen. McCaskill has asked the DHHS to check out, citing “serious questions” around their agreement. McCaskill also serves on the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting and Oversight she was also a single of the 1st senators to again Barack Obama for the duration of his marketing campaign for the presidency in 2008 and was rumored to be a likely applicant for jogging mate.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Dirty dozen: Iran claims arrest of 12 CIA agents
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Iran has arrested 12 US Central Intelligence Agency agents, the Iranian news agency reported on Thursday, quoting an influential parliamentarian who said the CIA operatives were intent on damaging Iran “from inside and outside”.
Parviz Sorouri, from the powerful committee on foreign policy and national security, reported the arrest of the spy ring to the official IRNA news agency.
He said the agents were co-operating with Israel’s Mossad and posed a threat to Iran`s security, military forces and nuclear program.
“The US and Zionist regime’s espionage apparatus were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside with a heavy blow, using regional intelligence services,” Sorouri was quoted as having said on Wednesday.
The lawmaker did not provide any further details of the arrests.
Earlier this week, there were reports that Iran and Lebanon together had unmasked several dozen CIA agents.
The operatives were reportedly exposed due to lack of professionalism. Many of them met with informants in the same pizzeria, making it easy for counter-intelligence services to track them down, the Israeli media claimed.
The alleged arrests closely followed what looked like a successful operation by Western secret services in Iran. On November 12, a major blast at an Iranian military base killed 17 people, including Brigade General Hassan Moghaddam, reputed to be the chief architect of the country’s missile program. Several commentators suggested that either Mossad or the CIA was behind the attack.
ISS group sensation gravity’s pull following 6-thirty day period mission
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Just back from a lengthy stint in area, ISS cosmonauts have shared with journalists their encounters of a tense mission extended by the Progress-M’s sudden crash.
The re-supply module Progress-M crashed following its start in late August, shattering each ideas and hopes. The ship was supposed to deliver the cosmonauts important supplies of meals and important gear for the mission.
As a outcome, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, NASA astronaut Michel Fossum and Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa invested a complete of 165 days at the ISS – nearly a week much more than prepared.
Volkov informed journalists that in the wake of the crash the cosmonauts set about getting ready toprolong their flight for an indefinite time period – a contingency strategy produced feasible by emergency supplies.
"I talked to Michael and Satoshi, and we made the decision that we would fly as lengthy as essential," Volkov stated. “We had been provided a opportunity to depart the ship, but we recognized it was harmful for the station. We did not want to consider the danger.”
The crash of the Progress also resulted in a delay in obtaining the subsequent group up to the ISS as the Soyuz rocket had to go via a barrage of exams to make sure its safety prior to launching.
“Three of us had been applying a plan that is generally carried out by a 6-powerful crew,” Volkov stated. "I had so a lot to do that I frequently had to function on weekends."
In spite of the issues, the atmosphere on board was fantastic and complete of group spirit, the cosmonaut recalled. In the uncommon minutes of relaxation, the males had been watched their preferred films.
“Fossum confirmed us Lord of the Rings, and I was translating for the men the legendary WWII movie Only Previous Males Are Going to Fight,” the Russian cosmonaut added.
The astronauts had been not only viewing films, but also generating them. Volkov and Fossum compiled a video clip presentation out of pictures of the Earth taken from the ISS.
Now the group is adapting back to the Earth’s local weather and atmosphere a procedure physicians say will consider nearly as lengthy as they invested in area. Volkov, nevertheless, informed journalists that he discovered this flight – his 2nd – a lot simpler than his initial.
“I currently knew what I was to anticipate, so there was absolutely nothing to complain of,” Volkov stated. “My physique remembered how to behave in zero gravity. It also took a lot much less time to adapt.”
NATO forces dismantle Serb barricade in Kosovo
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NATO troops in northern Kosovo have fired tear fuel to disperse a crowd of neighborhood Serbs resisting the dismantling of a barricade around Mitrovitsa.
Late on Wednesday, the Kosovo Pressure moved to dismantle a concrete barricade and stretched barbed wire across the highway.
Tear fuel was fired shortly right after hundreds of neighborhood Serbs gathered at the spot and experimented with to get rid of the barbed wire.
According to neighborhood media studies, numerous folks have been injured.
Tensions in Northern Kosovo have been on the rise for months above disputed border crossings.
The federal government of the breakaway province would like to handle the border with Serbia to enforce an import ban – resisted by ethnic Serbs in Kosovo.
In July, a policeman was shot dead although Kosovo police have been making an attempt to just take handle of the border posts.
Then a momentary deal was achieved among Pristina and Belgrade to enable the global peacekeepers to guard the border, but was rejected by neighborhood Serbs.
Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008, however Serbia in no way identified the breakaway move.
Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and journalist, claims that the most recent move by NATO's Kosovo Pressure is a blatant signal of aggression.
“I actually really don't see a justification for what is occurring in conditions of the true information on the ground. I just see one particular a lot more act that’s a pattern of blatant global aggression by NATO and the United States.”
Tricks not Saif: Loss of life penalty danger for Gaddafi’s son
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Right after Colonel Gaddafi's battlefield execution previous month, there had been hopes his captured son Saif Al-Islam would get a truthful trial. Nonetheless, there are effective figures in the West who could affect the class of justice.
Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi is a male with a whole lot to say. He is the previous likelihood the planet has to locate out how the Gaddafi regime went from Public Enemy No 1 to bosom buddies with Britain and other Western powers.
The Worldwide Criminal Court in The Hague states it is not heading to get in touch with for his extradition, as an alternative enabling Libya to try out him on residence soil.
His potential may well in fact be bleak in the palms of Libya’s new rulers. Libyan officials are previously calling for the loss of life penalty in what several concern is a tactic to preserve individuals dirty tricks hidden eternally.
Political analyst William Engdahl advised RT believes matters have been arranged so that “the details about the relationships that Gaddafi and the CIA [had] above a long time will not arrive out.”
He believes Western powers are notoriously committed to defending their tricks. “Look at what transpired to the trial of Milosevic,” he mentioned.
Saif Gaddafi was his father’s proper-hand male and a vital mediating go-among with the West. He liked a playboy life-style in London, counting Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Prince Andrew amongst his friends. There are even reviews he was entertained at Buckingham Palace.
He studied at one particular of London’s best universities. He was even invited back again to give a speech there as not too long ago as previous 12 months, when he was launched by a professor as a person who "seems to democracy, civil culture and deep liberal values for the core of his inspiration" – a far cry from the Gaddafis’ earlier part as worldwide pariahs.
Libya’s oil wealth meant it had a whole lot to give, and some specifics of what Britain won in return have previously emerged.
Saif Gaddafi’s alma mater was provided 1.5 million lbs by his charitable basis as portion of a deal to educate hundreds of Libya’s potential civil servants.
And it wasn’t just Britain.
According to Saif Gaddafi, Libya funded Nicolas Sarkozy’s path to the French presidency in return for a seat at France’s table.
Nonetheless, the Gaddafis’ fall from favor was sudden and breathtaking.
And given that then, according to Saif Al-Islam, their former pals have been frantically making an attempt to cover up their previous backlinks with the loved ones, desperate to stave off a trial at the Worldwide Criminal Court.
“Under the table they are making an attempt to negotiate with us a deal, declaring if you take this deal we will just take care of the court. What does this suggest? It implies that the court is controlled by the nations that are attacking us,” he mentioned in one particular of his interviews.
British Labor MP Jeremy Corbyn advised RT he believes the ICC’s willingness to enable Saif Gaddafi to be experimented with at residence all but guarantees that any inconvenient truths he carries will be buried eternally:
“Libya insists it is capable of offering Saif Gaddafi a truthful trial regardless of its judicial program not getting independent for above 40 a long time,” states the MP. “It is nevertheless unclear regardless of whether he will be experimented with at all. Rival ruling factions are fighting above who gets to actual revenge. With the loss of life penalty probably, it would seem Saif Gaddafi and his tricks will be silenced.”
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Iran to use indigenous technique as a substitute of S-300 missiles, states guard Cmdr
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Iran to use indigenous program as an alternative of S-300 missiles, says guard Cmdr
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ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
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TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran would use domestically-developed "Bavar 373" missile program, a substitution for S-300 missile program, in its aerial defense, mentioned Commander of Khatamol al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier Basic Farzad Esmaili.
He created the remarks right after the 4-day drill completed in eastern Iran on Monday. The military maneuver incorporated making use of tactical surveillance program, mobile and fixed guards as properly as mobile radar and domestically-created techniques in confronting war recreation.
"The developing phase of Bavar 373 missile program savoring a lot more capabilities comparing to S-300 missile is to be completed soon," he continued.
"We do not feel about S-300 missile and we feel that the domestically-developed program is not a substitution for S-300 missile and it enjoys increased and a lot more sophisticated capabilities."
Russia has refused to promote S-300 missile to Iran beneath the excuse of sanctions imposed towards the region, though Tehran and Moscow had previously concluded an agreement on S-300 missiles. Iran mentioned it would pursue the concern legally.
Iran is beneath 4 rounds of the UN Security Council sanctions above its refusal to halt peaceful enrichment perform. Iran insists that it has the proper to use uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes as a NPT member state. The sanctions mostly target Iran's baking and insurance policy sectors as properly as vitality fields.
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Deputy IRGC Chief: Iran prepared for extensive encountering with enemies' threats
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Qom, Nov 22, IRNA -- Deputy Commander of IRGC mentioned right here Monday Iranian armed forces are prepared for extensive defense of Islamic Revolution, countrywide interests, and country's interests and countering the enemies' complete threats, such as military invasion.
According to IRNA, Islamic Republic Guard Corps Brigadier Basic Sardar Hossein Salami who was speaking for a group of clerics at Qom Seminary reiterated, 'From any stage that we would be threatened, we would be ready to damage that stage limitlessly militarily.'
He more stressed, 'From the naval stage of the watch, also, our forces are completely qualified above them from the land and the air, in addition to the sea.'
Salami reiterated, 'After the a long time of the sacred defense (towards Saddam's usurper forces), our complete defense theories have been based mostly on probability of encountering the worst achievable situations, and as a result, we are prepared for encountering any regional of ultra-regional threats.'
The deputy IRGC chief mentioned, 'Israel is seeing by itself entangled among loss of life and daily life how then can it threaten a electrical power like Iran?'
Salami additional, 'The Islamic Republic of Iran is so robust and effective nowadays, that as the Supreme Leader has rightly said, can decisively react to any achievable danger.'
The best military commander referring to the current day situations of the US forces in the area, arguing, 'The United States has nowadays misplaced its design part the two economically and politically, attending a political funeral in the area for one particular of its allies with the passage of each and every new day, accompanying yet another dictator to the graveyard of historical past.'
He reiterated, 'The United States is no more time a political pioneer and even the shaky regimes do not experience safe beneath their supportive umbrella. Nowadays the US is not any more time trustworthy ally for regimes like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, and so forth.'
Brigadier Basic Salami mentioned, 'The Usurper racist Zionist regime which has when the dream of capturing from the Euphrates to the Nile, has right after the defeats in the 33 Day War with Hezbollah and the 22 Day War in Gaza misplaced all its self-claimed exemplary may well, obtaining grow to be so shaky.'
He additional, 'The standing of this regime is these that they threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran, but when it refers to its historic memory and the affect of that forged regime, it will take back again its uttered words.'
Salami reiterated, 'We have been entangled with the US policies at all scenes, and nowadays the Islamic program is more robust than actually just before, ready to launch countless numbers of missile towards any stage from which we would be threatened.'
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In accordance to a UC Police Captain, linking arms to sort a human chain is an act of violence
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Militarization of police exemplified by "virtually unstoppable" APC at Occupy Tampa
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As predicted, Arab League and Turkey reportedly approach no-fly zone around Syria with U.S. logistical assist
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Tempo accelerates for convoy traffic out of Iraq
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November 21, 2011
By Pamela Proper
CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait (Nov. 21, 2011) -- Units started rolling in from the north in short bursts, but now with the deadline to be out of Iraq drawing ever closer, the pace has accelerated for Soldiers departing Iraq and for those taking over their hand receipts.
While it's the end of a mission for redeploying units, it's only the beginning for the many Soldiers manning the turn-in lanes at Camp Virginia, Kuwait.
Staff Sgt. Kwame Peterkin is the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of the 402nd Army Field Support Brigade's operational area. Units turn in tactical vehicles and communications equipment to Peterkin's team and business is brisk.
"My guys like to stay busy. It keeps Soldiers fresh," said Peterkin.
The turn-in involves some paperwork, and that, Peterkin said, is the biggest wrinkle.
"These units don't always come in here with the proper documentation. It's the biggest challenge. It halts the operation, but we work through it and we help them get it all in order so they can go home," said Peterkin.
This is Peterkin's third deployment so nothing rattles him, not even missing paperwork. He claims teamwork is what makes it all work.
"I came into Iraq when it started. I was here in the middle and now I get to see closure, the end of it, and this time I am working with a lot of AMC (Army Materiel Command) civilians and I am learning a lot from them. Most are retirees who bring a lot of knowledge and having AMC experience on a resume will be a plus," Peterkin said. "I tell my team, this experience you can put in your toolbox."
It is estimated that between October and December the AMC team will move approximately 19,000 tactical vehicles out of Iraq. It's a job that takes a coordinated effort that starts and ends with Soldiers and civilians in the lanes.
"We have great cohesion. That's what makes us a good team, makes the job easier," said Peterkin. "Civilians and military, we are all on the same sheet of music to do a mission."
Egypt cabinet resigns after three days of violent clashes
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Egypt’s government has resigned amid huge protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Since Friday up to 33 have died in clashes between protesters and security forces, with riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets against stone-throwing demonstrators.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's government handed in its resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. RT’s Paula Slier reports that the military is reviewing the offer to quit and does not want to accept it until there is a new formally-appointed prime minister.
There also have been reports that former head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei, might be considered as a candidate for that position.
According to RT’s correspondent Paula Slier, there is considerable chaos and confusion in the Egyptian capital. Protestors believe is it not enough for the government to simply step aside, they want the military to resign too.
Since Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's government came to power in March, it has been frequently criticized as inefficient and subordinate to the military.
Earlier on Sunday, Egypt's Culture Minister Emad Abu stepped down in protest at the government crackdown.
Clashes between rioters and military forces in Egypt pose a question about the legitimacy of the elections set to start on November 28.
Jeremy Corbyn, a British Labour MP and a member of the Stop the War coalition, told RT that the army’s behavior is designed to create an unacceptable atmosphere for the elections.
“If the elections are postponed because of the behavior of the military then presumably the military council will see itself being longer in power, if not permanently in power,” he said.
Corbyn says that this will provoke even more demonstrations and uprisings across the whole country.
As RT’s Paula Slier reports, the people in Tahrir Square that she spoke to, were saying they will not leave until they get what they want.
“I think what they want is the opportunity to decide their own future and their own government. What they have had is a military council running the country ever since Mubarak stepped down, essentially full of Mubarak appointees,” Corbyn says.
Dr Adil Shamoo, foreign policy expert from the US, has welcomed the Cabinet’s decision to resign as “a very good step.”
It will put the military on notice that they can no longer kill people and arrest people and wound people and torture some of them, and feel free to have extremely limited democracy as long as they stay in power and do whatever they want in terms of budget and secret trials,” Shamoo told RT.
Pepper spraying cop meme: Internet pokes fun at Lt. Pike
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Having started by pepper-spraying Occupy UC Davis protesters, Lt. John Pike, the campus cop, is now taking aim at famous works of art, with a little help from photoshop and an internet meme sending-up the notorious officer.
On November 18, Pike used pepper spray against students who were taking part in a peaceful “Occupy” campaign in front of the University of California, Davis. The incident was filmed, and in no time the video went viral. An enraged public decided to take revenge on the cop for his unwarranted use of forceful policing tactics. They created a special meme on the internet where Pike was pictured pepper-spraying characters on well-known works of art.
Over the following weekend Pike’s corpulent form found itself on numerous works like Edouard Manet’s “Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass) and Picasso's “Guernica”.
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The meme became extremely popular – only 12 hours after it was created, there were thousands of hits with people sending their own photoshopped pictures featuring Pike as well.
Pike is now on indefinite leave from the police force, and until he is back in the ranks, he will have the opportunity, it seems, to sharpen his aim while pepper-spraying the silent characters of Manet, Seurat and other famous artists.
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Pepper spraying cop meme: Internet pokes fun at Lt. Pike
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Having started by pepper-spraying Occupy UC Davis protesters, Lt. John Pike, the campus cop, is now taking aim at famous works of art, with a little help from photoshop and an internet meme sending-up the notorious officer.
On November 18, Pike used pepper spray against students who were taking part in a peaceful “Occupy” campaign in front of the University of California, Davis. The incident was filmed, and in no time the video went viral. An enraged public decided to take revenge on the cop for his unwarranted use of forceful policing tactics. They created a special meme on the internet where Pike was pictured pepper-spraying characters on well-known works of art.
Over the following weekend Pike’s corpulent form found itself on numerous works like Edouard Manet’s “Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass) and Picasso's “Guernica”.
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The meme became extremely popular – only 12 hours after it was created, there were thousands of hits with people sending their own photoshopped pictures featuring Pike as well.
Pike is now on indefinite leave from the police force, and until he is back in the ranks, he will have the opportunity, it seems, to sharpen his aim while pepper-spraying the silent characters of Manet, Seurat and other famous artists.
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Pepper spraying cop meme: Internet pokes fun at Lt. Pike
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Having started by pepper-spraying Occupy UC Davis protesters, Lt. John Pike, the campus cop, is now taking aim at famous works of art, with a little help from photoshop and an internet meme sending-up the notorious officer.
On November 18, Pike used pepper spray against students who were taking part in a peaceful “Occupy” campaign in front of the University of California, Davis. The incident was filmed, and in no time the video went viral. An enraged public decided to take revenge on the cop for his unwarranted use of forceful policing tactics. They created a special meme on the internet where Pike was pictured pepper-spraying characters on well-known works of art.
Over the following weekend Pike’s corpulent form found itself on numerous works like Edouard Manet’s “Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass) and Picasso's “Guernica”.
Image from peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com
The meme became extremely popular – only 12 hours after it was created, there were thousands of hits with people sending their own photoshopped pictures featuring Pike as well.
Pike is now on indefinite leave from the police force, and until he is back in the ranks, he will have the opportunity, it seems, to sharpen his aim while pepper-spraying the silent characters of Manet, Seurat and other famous artists.
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‘US military – source of instability in Afghanistan and region’
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With many Afghans opposing plans to extend US-Afghan partnership, a Pakistan-based expert says that the US military presence in the country has become a source of instability both within Afghanistan and in the region.
On Sunday, some 1,000 people took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal between Kabul and Washington. Many fear it could extend the US military presence in the war-torn country.
Ahmed Quraishi, a political analyst from Pakistan told RT that the Afghan people have no reason to welcome the American presence in their country as the US record over the past decade in Afghanistan is not very encouraging.
“The United States has failed to bring social harmony to Afghanistan, to bring political stability to the country and to stabilize the region.”
Nevertheless, the current Afghan ruling elite wants Americans to stay as they are totally dependent on them, the analyst explains.
“The moment the Americans are out, these people don’t really have a chance to stay in power. Many of them are proxies of various American organizations, NGOs, US military, intelligence and other departments of US government.”
As the US and officials in Kabul quietly discuss an extended American presence in the country, Afghanistan’s neighbors are “deeply concerned about a permanent state of instability in the region,” he argues.
According to Quraishi, Afghanistan is an important base of operations for the US and Washington will not let this strategic piece of land go.
“They are testing new weapons over there,” he says. “And they are sitting in the backyards of the major powers in the region, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.”
‘US military – source of instability in Afghanistan and region’
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With many Afghans opposing plans to extend US-Afghan partnership, a Pakistan-based expert says that the US military presence in the country has become a source of instability both within Afghanistan and in the region.
On Sunday, some 1,000 people took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal between Kabul and Washington. Many fear it could extend the US military presence in the war-torn country.
Ahmed Quraishi, a political analyst from Pakistan told RT that the Afghan people have no reason to welcome the American presence in their country as the US record over the past decade in Afghanistan is not very encouraging.
“The United States has failed to bring social harmony to Afghanistan, to bring political stability to the country and to stabilize the region.”
Nevertheless, the current Afghan ruling elite wants Americans to stay as they are totally dependent on them, the analyst explains.
“The moment the Americans are out, these people don’t really have a chance to stay in power. Many of them are proxies of various American organizations, NGOs, US military, intelligence and other departments of US government.”
As the US and officials in Kabul quietly discuss an extended American presence in the country, Afghanistan’s neighbors are “deeply concerned about a permanent state of instability in the region,” he argues.
According to Quraishi, Afghanistan is an important base of operations for the US and Washington will not let this strategic piece of land go.
“They are testing new weapons over there,” he says. “And they are sitting in the backyards of the major powers in the region, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.”
‘US military – source of instability in Afghanistan and region’
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With many Afghans opposing plans to extend US-Afghan partnership, a Pakistan-based expert says that the US military presence in the country has become a source of instability both within Afghanistan and in the region.
On Sunday, some 1,000 people took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal between Kabul and Washington. Many fear it could extend the US military presence in the war-torn country.
Ahmed Quraishi, a political analyst from Pakistan told RT that the Afghan people have no reason to welcome the American presence in their country as the US record over the past decade in Afghanistan is not very encouraging.
“The United States has failed to bring social harmony to Afghanistan, to bring political stability to the country and to stabilize the region.”
Nevertheless, the current Afghan ruling elite wants Americans to stay as they are totally dependent on them, the analyst explains.
“The moment the Americans are out, these people don’t really have a chance to stay in power. Many of them are proxies of various American organizations, NGOs, US military, intelligence and other departments of US government.”
As the US and officials in Kabul quietly discuss an extended American presence in the country, Afghanistan’s neighbors are “deeply concerned about a permanent state of instability in the region,” he argues.
According to Quraishi, Afghanistan is an important base of operations for the US and Washington will not let this strategic piece of land go.
“They are testing new weapons over there,” he says. “And they are sitting in the backyards of the major powers in the region, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.”
Sanctions useless against Iran?
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The West continues to increase pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear program. But will the latest set of sanctions help it reach its goals? Some experts believe the measures will only fuel nationalistic feelings in Iran and boost the regime.
Ivan Eland, an expert on political economics from the Independent Institute told RT the sanctions being pushed on Iran are a blunt tool and will probably hurt the Iranian people.
“When you bomb a country, it unifies the population with the government, even if they don’t like the government. In this case we are not bombing yet, but we are attacking them economically. It actually helps the regime because a lot of the people in Iran, especially the young, don’t really like the regime,” he stated.
The Russian deputy foreign minister said that recent events resemble an attempt to bring about regime change. And according to Eland, that is what the West really wants, though it is not going to work.
“Sanctions rarely work. Even in the case of South Africa, where regime change occurred and sanctions were used, people associated the two, but in reality most revolutions happen internally, not from external sources,” he explained.
David Lindorff, founder of the news blog "This Can't Be Happening", believes that pressure coming from the US and Israel could merely encourage Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons.
“If you really want a country to get nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with attack. Sooner or later they will do that because that’s the best defense they have against an attack.”
Lindorff believes the sanctions will have a negative impact on the US goal of trying to drive a wedge between the people and the government.
“If you look at Cuba, it’s probably the sanctions that have helped to keep the regime in power for all these years because people get so angry at those sanctions and see them as a threat.”
Sanctions useless against Iran?
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The West continues to increase pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear program. But will the latest set of sanctions help it reach its goals? Some experts believe the measures will only fuel nationalistic feelings in Iran and boost the regime.
Ivan Eland, an expert on political economics from the Independent Institute told RT the sanctions being pushed on Iran are a blunt tool and will probably hurt the Iranian people.
“When you bomb a country, it unifies the population with the government, even if they don’t like the government. In this case we are not bombing yet, but we are attacking them economically. It actually helps the regime because a lot of the people in Iran, especially the young, don’t really like the regime,” he stated.
The Russian deputy foreign minister said that recent events resemble an attempt to bring about regime change. And according to Eland, that is what the West really wants, though it is not going to work.
“Sanctions rarely work. Even in the case of South Africa, where regime change occurred and sanctions were used, people associated the two, but in reality most revolutions happen internally, not from external sources,” he explained.
David Lindorff, founder of the news blog "This Can't Be Happening", believes that pressure coming from the US and Israel could merely encourage Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons.
“If you really want a country to get nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with attack. Sooner or later they will do that because that’s the best defense they have against an attack.”
Lindorff believes the sanctions will have a negative impact on the US goal of trying to drive a wedge between the people and the government.
“If you look at Cuba, it’s probably the sanctions that have helped to keep the regime in power for all these years because people get so angry at those sanctions and see them as a threat.”
‘US military – source of instability in Afghanistan and region’
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With many Afghans opposing plans to extend US-Afghan partnership, a Pakistan-based expert says that the US military presence in the country has become a source of instability both within Afghanistan and in the region.
On Sunday, some 1,000 people took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal between Kabul and Washington. Many fear it could extend the US military presence in the war-torn country.
Ahmed Quraishi, a political analyst from Pakistan told RT that the Afghan people have no reason to welcome the American presence in their country as the US record over the past decade in Afghanistan is not very encouraging.
“The United States has failed to bring social harmony to Afghanistan, to bring political stability to the country and to stabilize the region.”
Nevertheless, the current Afghan ruling elite wants Americans to stay as they are totally dependent on them, the analyst explains.
“The moment the Americans are out, these people don’t really have a chance to stay in power. Many of them are proxies of various American organizations, NGOs, US military, intelligence and other departments of US government.”
As the US and officials in Kabul quietly discuss an extended American presence in the country, Afghanistan’s neighbors are “deeply concerned about a permanent state of instability in the region,” he argues.
According to Quraishi, Afghanistan is an important base of operations for the US and Washington will not let this strategic piece of land go.
“They are testing new weapons over there,” he says. “And they are sitting in the backyards of the major powers in the region, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.”
Sanctions useless against Iran?
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The West continues to increase pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear program. But will the latest set of sanctions help it reach its goals? Some experts believe the measures will only fuel nationalistic feelings in Iran and boost the regime.
Ivan Eland, an expert on political economics from the Independent Institute told RT the sanctions being pushed on Iran are a blunt tool and will probably hurt the Iranian people.
“When you bomb a country, it unifies the population with the government, even if they don’t like the government. In this case we are not bombing yet, but we are attacking them economically. It actually helps the regime because a lot of the people in Iran, especially the young, don’t really like the regime,” he stated.
The Russian deputy foreign minister said that recent events resemble an attempt to bring about regime change. And according to Eland, that is what the West really wants, though it is not going to work.
“Sanctions rarely work. Even in the case of South Africa, where regime change occurred and sanctions were used, people associated the two, but in reality most revolutions happen internally, not from external sources,” he explained.
David Lindorff, founder of the news blog "This Can't Be Happening", believes that pressure coming from the US and Israel could merely encourage Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons.
“If you really want a country to get nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with attack. Sooner or later they will do that because that’s the best defense they have against an attack.”
Lindorff believes the sanctions will have a negative impact on the US goal of trying to drive a wedge between the people and the government.
“If you look at Cuba, it’s probably the sanctions that have helped to keep the regime in power for all these years because people get so angry at those sanctions and see them as a threat.”
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