RT | 13 April 2015 The Russian president has repealed the ban prohibiting the delivery of S-300 missile air defense systems to Iran, according to the Kremlin’s press service. The ban was introduced by former President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. “[The presidential] decree lifts the ban on transit through Russian territory, including airlift, and the…
NZ Herald | 7 April 2015 The Prime Minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, has repeated his call for New Zealand to be kicked out of the Pacific region’s main decision-making body. Mr Bainimarama’s foreign affairs minister told Australian officials on the weekend that either New Zealand or Australia should cease to be full members of…
The National Interest | 28 March 2015 A deal on nukes won’t be enough. America needs to change its geopolitical view of Iran. Stakes in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 couldn’t be higher for the countries involved—especially for the United States. After nearly a decade and a half of disastrously self-damaging wars,…
Al Jazeera | 24 March Israel denies eavesdropping on confidential negotiations that it used to lobby Congress, undermine an Iran deal Washington has accused Israel of spying on closed-door international talks with Iran about its nuclear program and relaying information from the meetings to the U.S. Congress as a way to build a case against…
Newsweek | 16 March 2015 An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, despite both being consistently included as threats in previous years. The unclassified report, issued by…
Mike Whitney | CounterPunch | 6-8 March 2015 “The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the only constraint on Washington’s power to act unilaterally abroad…. Suddenly the United States found itself to be the Uni-power, the ‘world’s only superpower.’ Neoconservatives proclaimed ‘the end of history.’” — Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US…
NSNBC | March 6, 2015 In 2008 NATO and the UN signed a Secretariat Coordination Treaty that implies that NATO has become the de facto military enforcement instrument of the international body Russia has invited all NATO member States and the NATO leadership to attend a security conference in mid-April, said the Russian Deputy Defense Minister…
VT | 26 Feb 2015 Benjamin Netanyahu is almost certainly having a mid-life crisis. He probably has lots of different medications in his file cabinet. Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has reported that the Netanyahu administration contacted Arab ambassadors “to come to his boss’s speech, emailing them personally to plead for their attendance.” They all…
Oliver Tickell | The Ecologist | 19 Feb 2015 While mainstream media promulgate a fictitious message of Russian threats in the Baltic, Vladimir Putin’s next big play lies far to the south, writes Oliver Tickell. The gross intransigence of the EU, the IMF, the European Central Bank and Germany are forcing Greece into a powerful new…
Vox | 16 Feb 2015 US officials believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized his government to release secret details of the US nuclear negotiations with Iran to the Israeli press, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The alleged leaks would appear designed to undermine the negotiations, which Israel opposes. In response,…