The New Yorker 14 juni 2016
John Cassidy writes about President Obama’s impassioned [post-Orlando] speech about immigration, terrorism, and Donald Trump.
by Simon Jenkins Opinion The Guardian
Paranoid politicians, sensational journalists – the Isis recruiting officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity in Belgium
Quelle: ARTE TV http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/050296-000/taeuschung-die-methode-reagan Mit seinem Machtantritt im Jahre 1981 bestimmt Ronald Reagan die Strateg...
By T.C. Sottek on February 23, 2016 in The Verge
The funny thing about the FBI and tech writers accusing Apple of refusing to hack the iPhone as a "marketing strategy" is that siding with terrorists is a bad strategy. Apple is not doing that, of...
Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has called for a boycott of Apple until it cooperates with the FBI.
It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far," he said.
Yaalon’s counterpart, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, made similar statements, saying that a large part of the Islamic State’s oil trade, as well as the financing of terror, is going through Turkey.
Gilbert D. 30 Nov :
Europeans can take pleasure in the rare phenomenon these days of diametrically opposed narratives on major international issues being laid out...
"the switch at Euronews was very obviously flicked in time for President Hollande’s visit to Moscow on Thursday, 26 November to agree on the terms of Russian-French military cooperation. In its coverage of the press conference which followed, Euronews gave equal time to the French and Russian presidents and chose the most important assertion from Putin’s statements for airing, his answer to a French journalist on why Assad’s remaining in power is not an impediment to combatting the Daesh, but is rather an essential precondition: as Putin explained, the Islamic State forces in Syria can only be defeated on the ground, and there is only one military force in existence today, the regular Syrian Army of President Assad. This very reasonable logic just happens to fly in the face of everything Washington, and official France as well, has been saying about the Syrian civil war."
Pirate Party statement on 13 November 2015
"...cowardice and bigotry have bloodied the streets of Paris and our indignation is huge. Our thoughts are with the victims and their relatives."
Ian Fisher, NYT 18 Nov 2015: "No report or event can stand in hindsight as the single missed key to the now terrifyingly complex puzzle of the Islamic State. "
Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com 16 nov 2015: "former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren has brazenly stated that ISIS is the "lesser evil." They’re all "bad guys," said Oren, but "we always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran."
The Paris attacks are the signal for full-scale Western intervention in Syria, a “pitiless war,” as French President Francois Hollande put it, and the US is likely to follow in his wake. This will achieve another longstanding Israeli goal: the interposition of a substantial Western military force between Israel and its enemies. (Although the Israeli far right doesn’t necessarily agree.)
What we are looking at is a Western expeditionary force aimed at smashing the Islamic State, occupying Syria, and imposing a “negotiated settlement” of the civil war.
November 24, 2015 by Brad Hoff
While the document was referenced and analyzed in literally hundreds of independent/alternative and foreign media reports, major U.S. news maintained its silence, even after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), head of the DIA at the time the report was prepared, confirmed its accuracy and importance in an Al Jazeera interview with Mehdi Hasan.
The New York Times has finally acknowledged the 2012 DIA report a full six months after its release through FOIA , including new statements confirming its high importance, in a lengthy investigative piece about the rise of ISIS. To my great surprise the article sources my initial reporting of the Pentagon document...
By Peter Lee on November 24, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features: "the alleged and now reportedly deceased architect of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, did not fight “for IS.” He fought “with” Katibat al-Battar al-Libi, a Libyan outfit whose presence in Syria predates that of ISIS. Even after Katibat al-Battar al-Libi decided to pledge allegiance to ISIS, it retained its independent identity. And it would appear unlikely that Abaaoud, as a European of Moroccan descent, would be a central figure in the brigade, whose personnel, funding, and mission seem to have largely emanated from Libya"
Perpetrators of recent Western terror attacks have largely hailed from a small number of struggling European neighbourhoods. International expert and Globe columnist Doug Saunders has spent the last year researching approaches to building better communities. Here’s how we can avert extremism before it starts
"The places where refugees succeed are in countries that turn them into regular “economic” immigrants as soon as possible, as there is no more important form of safety than leading a normal life in work, education and housing."
A massive demonstration planned byenvironmental activists for the eve of this month's U.N. climatesummit in Paris is in doubt as organisers weigh the securityrisks - and the propriety - of gathering in huge numbers in acity where attacks killed 129 people.
Nafeez Ahmed: "So the US is not targeting the Islamic State’s financial lifeline - its black market oil infrastructure - but instead is teaming up with the same al-Qaeda affiliated groups that spawned IS in the first place, to undermine Assad. And Russia, for all its muscle-flexing rhetoric, sees its main priority as countering US-led efforts to topple Assad, by targeting his most immediate opponents.
This is, in other words, a New Cold War between competing empires, the unending victims of which are the Syrian people. As for the Islamic State, it is little more than the proxy bastard child of a conflict that looks set to escalate.