Archive for the 'USA' Category
Iran and Israel
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009A well-written and nuanced article dealing with the historical dynamic that led to the current relations between Iran and Israel from Conflicts Forum
Imagined affinities, imagined enmities: The strange tale of Iran and Israel
By Alastair Crooke, Le Monde diplomatique, February, 2009
The early Zionists never believed they would be accepted in the Arab world and pinned their […]
The hypocricy over the Georgia debacle
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Although Russia is showing scary tendencies in its new and aggressive foreign policy, the American and European outcry that followed the Russian intervention in Georgia and the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, is hypocritical to the extreme.
First of all, what took place was that the president of Georgia chose to use force of […]
The never-ending mess of Iraq
Thursday, April 10th, 2008We are told that “The Surge” in Iraq has been a success as the increase in US troops, in addition to local agreements with wardlords, strongmen, sheikhs and mullahs, has brought the violence in Iraq down considerably. In reality, Iraq has become completely dysfunctional and decentralised and the central government has virtually no control on […]
Gearing up for war III, this time WW3?
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Referring to president Bush’ statement that allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons might lead to world war 3, Dennis Kucinich, congressman from Ohio said: ‘the White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to avoid.’
You might have noticed a small news […]
Gearing up for war II
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007From Syriacomment
“Policy Brief” by Alistair Crooke, circulated by the U.S./Middle East Project, of which Henry Siegman is the Director
TICKING CLOCKS AND ‘ACCIDENTAL’ WAR
BY ALASTAIR CROOKE *
9 October 2007
Editor: Robert Malley
In an article in Salon.com on 19 September, Steven Clemons describes a debate at a recent Washington dinner party attended by eighteen persons at which […]
Gearing up for war?
Saturday, September 15th, 2007I don’t know if this case has made much of an appearance in the Norwegian media, but the Israeli bombing of something in eastern Syria last week and the speculation of what actually happened later is not a good sign for the Middle East or peaceful resolutions of any of the numerous conflicts in the […]