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Balochistan: The Next Pro-Israel ‘Humanitarian’ Project?
Posted on16. Feb, 2012 by Maidhc O Cathail.
By Maidhc Ó Cathail With the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations having a hearing on human rights abuses in Balochistan, could Pakistan’s strategically located, resource-rich largest province be the next target of “humanitarian intervention”? On the website “Big Government,” Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) recently suggested: “Perhaps we should [...]
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Regime Change, Inc.
Posted on19. Jan, 2012 by Maidhc O Cathail.
Denies Its Own Existence By Maidhc Ó Cathail Almost three years ago, Richard Perle, also known as “Prince of Darkness,” brazenly attempted to deny his own existence as a leading pro-Israel architect of the Iraq war, when he stated, “There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy.” Now, the “nonviolent” manifestation of that [...]
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Who will watch the watchdog?
Posted on11. Dec, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
The pro-Israel NGO behind NATO’s war on Libya is targeting Syria By Maidhc Ó Cathail On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation there following what it called “a global [...]
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Sanctioning Syria: The Long Road to Damascus
Posted on17. Nov, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
Enforcing those AIPAC-endorsed sanctions has been the happy task of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Created in early 2004 after intensive lobbying by AIPAC and its associated think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the TFI unit has been aptly described as “a sharp-edged tool forged principally to serve [...]
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The ‘Humanitarian’ Road to Damascus
Posted on12. Nov, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
Pro-Israel Groups Outline U.S. Options to Assist Syrian Opposition By Maidhc Ó Cathail On November 8, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies jointly issued a discussion paper that outlines “policy options for the United States and like-minded nations to further assist the anti-regime Syrian opposition.” Entitled “Towards a Post-Assad Syria,” [...]
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Territory of Lies
Posted on04. Nov, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
The Israeli-Occupied Hearing on Alleged Iranian Terror By Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force – involving a bumbling, failed used-car salesman’s botched attempt to hire a reportedly Mossad-trained Mexican drug cartel – to blow up the Saudi [...]
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Provoking a Path to Persia
Posted on20. Oct, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
The Saban Center’s prescient paper on war with Iran Maidhc Ó Cathail In June 2009, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy published “Which Path to Persia?—Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran.” Writing in a tone strikingly reminiscent of the Project for a New American Century’s infamous pre-9/11 paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” the [...]
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Max Puts the Boot into Pakistan
Posted on07. Oct, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
Pro-Israeli hawk urges U.S. to “get tough” with sole Islamic nuclear power By Maidhc Ó Cathail While much attention has been paid to Admiral Mike Mullen’s allegations that Pakistan’s ISI was behind recent attacks on American targets in Afghanistan attributed to the Haqqani network, the subsequent call by an influential neoconservative pundit for the United [...]
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An Ill Wind From Norway
Posted on21. Sep, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
How Andrew Breivik Has Helped Assuage Abe Foxman’s Internet Nightmares By Maidhc Ó Cathail “‘Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,” wrote Christopher Bullock almost three centuries ago in his comedic farce, The Cobler of Preston. If he were writing today, however, the English playwright might consider adding a third [...]
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Q&A: Edward Luttwak
Posted on07. Sep, 2011 by Maidhc O Cathail.
The military strategist talks about Israeli security, Henry Kissinger, the Arab Spring, and the death of Osama Bin Laden By David Samuels Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. A well-built man who looks like he is in his mid-50s (he turns 70 [...]
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