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«Orient Tendencies»

Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...

Beirut (Lebanon) | 4 March 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry, the (Syrian National Coalition chief) Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and the Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi at a meeting of (Friends of the Syrian People) on February 28, 2013 in Rome. Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...
By Ghaleb Kandil (…)

Argentina’s President slams Israel Lobby

18 February 2013

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Salehi (R) and his Argentinian counterpart Héctor Timerman.
Last week, the foreign ministers of Argentina and Iran signed an agreement to establish a joint Truth Commission to investigate the 1994 bombing at the Jewish Community Center (AMIA) in Buenos (…)

Argentina: From Falklands Blitz to ‘Treaty of Versailles’

by Adrian Salbuchi

2 April 2012

Today, 2 April 2012, marks the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands (Malvinas) war between Argentina and the United Kingdom. Adrián Salbuchi analyses the bitter long-lasting consequences of Argentina’s capitulation to the Empire. Before being considered as best pupil of the IMF in (…)

A Message from Argentina: Our Sympathies to the People of Greece!

by Adrian Salbuchi

Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 14 May 2010

There are disconcerting parallels between Argentina’s catastrophic decade, 1991-2001, which ended in massive default, and Greece’s recent and impending difficulties. In both cases, international credit organisations were to blame and both countries were beset by widespread protests and riots (…)

“Let’s make sure we do better with Iran than we did with Iraq”

by Timothy Garton Ash

27 January 2006

The West has a new challenge. After Iraq, Iran now. While Teheran removes the seals of the nuclear facilities and gets ready to resume its uranium enrichment programme that could allow it to produce atomic weapons in some years, Europe and the United States must work on a common answer (…)

“Moving politics to the centre”

by Shmuel Sandler

1 December 2005

The announcement made on Monday by Ariel Sharon about the foundation of a new centre party is an act of courage. According to all observers, Sharon could have taken Likud to a new electoral victory but he abandoned it to be able to implement a policy that can allow Israel to have better security (…)

Once a “Pacifist”, Sharon is now a “Centrist”

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 1 December 2005

On the pretext of Ariel Sharon partly renouncing the Great Israel dream, the Western press, suffering from amnesia, has forgotten his past as leader of a killer commando, his role in the massacre of Sabra and Shatilla and his provocations which led to the second Interfada. The creation of a new (…)

“How the dreaded superstate became a Commonwealth"

by Timothy Garton Ash

11 November 2005

This week, the European Union did something remarkable. It chose to become an all-European Commonwealth, not the part-European superstate of Tory nightmares. Actually, the main objective of the opening –bitterly contested– of negotiations with Turkey is not to ensure that Turkey becomes a member (…)

“We Must Not Let Our Greatness Flicker”

by Aleksander Smolar, Michael Mertes, Timothy Garton Ash , Dominique Moïsi

24 June 2005

For historians, May 29th and June 1st, 2005, dates of the French and Dutch “no”, will be crucial and symbolic moments to Europe. They mark the symbolic end of an era that began after the Second World War, a period characterized by reverence to the European Union, associated with peace, (…)

The empire and the CIA against Latin America (First part)

by Tribunal Dignidad, Soberanía y Paz Contra la Guerra

Quito (Ecuador) | 9 March 2005

«The Corporation (Central Intelligence Agency -CIA) is the principal motor force of the international political maneuvering» (of the United States) Harry Ramson in the work: The Central and National Security.