Lasse Karlsson har sammanställt några presscitat kring toppkonferensen i Washington. bl a Chrstian Science Monitors ledare, Eva Selin Lindgren (cp) och ett citat ur Christian Azars bok. Reuters ger en inblick i spelet bakom kulisserna i en intervju med fö
"the 50th anniversary conference of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which led the sit-in movement of the 1960s. I attended SNCC’s founding conference at Shaw in April 1960. That meeting had been called in response to the February 1, 1
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
June, 2010. "Is it unimaginable that the Tea Parties might turn in that direction? Perhaps not, though much depends on the extent to which the Republican Party and people like Sarah Palin are able to co-opt the movement. If they do, the revolt will fizzle
By Philip Giraldi July 19, 2010 "If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification." "As this article was being written, a story broke reporting that
Gareth Porter "Under the administration's definition of the concept, combat operations will continue after August 2010, but will be defined as the secondary role of U.S. forces in Iraq. The primary role will be to "advise and assist" Iraqi forces. An offi
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel's leaders would calculate
Aug 2009 article by Elaine Grossman, final para: "Without clear direction from Obama, now president, "we essentially signal [to the world] that the president's nuclear elimination pledge is just another ultimate goal and not different from what any other
Israel is more likely than not by next July to take military action aimed at curbing Iran's disputed nuclear activities, more than three dozen present and former Israeli policy-makers and other U.S. and Arab state officials indicated in interviews with T
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Middle Eastern Affairs Colin Kahl and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Michael Corbin presented the administration plan for what they called a "transition from a military to civilian re
BENNIS: I heard one new thing, Paul, and that was President Obama's acknowledgment that this is now a trillion-dollar war in Iraq. Among those 50,000 troops are 4,500 special forces, [that] have two jobs. One is horrifying. They go around the country wit
CO2-raportti 18.10.2010 "Hallinnon ydinvoimapolitiikan epäjohdonmukaisuuden syistä on esitetty erilaisia väitteitä. The Economistin mukaan tietyt tahot epäilevät, että Obaman ydinvoimamyönteisyyden tarkoituksena oli voittaa republikaanit uuden ilmastolain
Björn Elmbrant: "När politiken alltså knappast kan lindra krisen alls, kom ändå amerikanska riksbanken, Federal Reserve, igår kväll till undsättning med ett gigantisk stimulanspaket för den amerikanska ekonomin. Riksbanken ska under ett år köpa upp statsp
MADRID (AFP) - President President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday."The whole chain of command who was aware of
Obama försöker nu få det nya START-avtalet ratificerat av senaten innan årsskiftet. Avtalet som slöts med Ryssland tidigare i år förutsätter en ytterligare begränsning av de kärnvapen som de båda länderna innehar
OBL's harddrive. "As they watched the historic images play out on a bank of monitors, the official photograph, released by the White House, showed the intense emotion of the situation.Dressed in a white polo style t-shirt, casual jacket and beige slacks,
Gareth Porter: Domestic politics dictated decision to assassinate bin Laden, not national security has protected himself now against, really, Republican efforts to portray him as weak on terrorism. He's really now in a very much stronger position polit
Wallerstein:" The United States today is, I would say, one of the least stable political entities in the world-system... there is a major drop in the belief in the United States, and its president, by traditional U.S. allies abroad, and by the president's Commentary No. 345, Jan. 15, 2013"The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables": "Nuclear weapons are essentially defensive weapons and therefore reduce, not increase, the likelihood of interstate wars."