Schlagwort: Obama

„The White House says it is fighting ISIS, but its Iranian and Iranian-backed partners say the war is about killing Sunnis. ‚There are no patriots, no real religious people in Fallujah,‘ said the leader of one Iranian-backed Shiite militia. ‚It’s our chance to clear Iraq by eradicating the cancer of…

Von Florian MarklAnlässlich seines Hiroshima-Besuchs erneuerte US-Präsident Obama den Aufruf aus seiner Prager Rede vom April 2009 nach einer „Welt ohne Atomwaffen“. Angesichts der Realität der vergangenen Jahre erntete er dafür viel Kritik. Schließlich sind die USA selbst gerade dabei, ihr Atomwaffenarsenal zu erneuern. Weit entfernt davon, sein Atomwaffenprogramm einzustellen,…

„In western Syria an Assad policy of mass homicide and collective punishment prevails; a policy that makes negotiations impossible. In eastern Syria ISIS is chased by airplanes and harassed by a Kurdish militia. The administration therefore has the worst of both worlds. In the west it has protected not one…

„In Afghanistan, he set a timetable for troop withdrawal, untethered to conditions. In Libya, he bombed the Gaddafi regime out of power but did not stay to help a new government get on its feet. In Iraq, he overrode his civilian and military advisers and declined to keep in the…

„Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an ‚echo chamber‘ of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the…

„It‘s virtually impossible to imagine Israel and the Palestinians conducting fruitful negotiations under the current circumstances. Mistrust is at an all-time high. Gaps on the core issues are wide. Talks have been in deep freeze for over two years. For months on end, young Palestinians have targeted innocent Israelis in…

„The campaign group Naame Shaam today said that it will stop all its activities after two years of exposing and campaigning against the Iranian regime’s role in Syria. Since its launch in February 2014, the group has helped change the narrative around what the Iranian regime and its militias are…

„Iran has been ‚enhancing‘ its nuclear program and bolstering its uranium enrichment capability, Iran’s atomic energy chief told a group of the country’s ambassadors and envoys in Tehran on Saturday. ‚We are enhancing the industrial section of Iran’s nuclear activities technologically with modern systems and machines,‘ said Ali Akbar Salehi,…

„Syria’s regime has used sarin nerve gas for the first time since 2013, dropping bombs laden with the chemical agent on Isil fighters outside Damascus, according to a senior Israeli official. This use of sarin would show that Bashar al-Assad has retained the ability to gas his enemies despite an…

„For a man of Barack Obama‘s evident humanity and values, surely there has been something of transcendent importance that has stayed his hand from protecting Syrian civilians; something of paramount national security significance that has stopped him from acting in support of American friends and allies trying desperately to deal…

Von Stuart Winer Freimütig bekannte Ben Rhodes, einer der engsten Mitarbeiter von Präsident Barack Obama, wie die US-Administration die Öffentlichkeit gezielt fehlleitete, um den Iran-Deal vom Juli 2015 in ein besseres Licht zu rücken. (Mena Watch hat gestern darüber berichtet.) In dem ausführlichen Beitrag des New York Times Magazines, der…

„At the heart of the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran is the notion that the regime is divided among hard-liners who foment its terrorism and regional aggression and more moderate forces who are open to cooperation with the West. The embodiment of the latter is said to be Foreign…

Von Florian Markl Die Obama-Administration hat die amerikanische und internationale Öffentlichkeit systematisch in die Irre geführt, um den im vergangenen Juli vereinbarten Deal mit dem Iran durchzudrücken. Das sagen nicht etwa republikanische ‚Falken‘ oder israelische ‚Hardliner‘, sondern das bekennt Ben Rhodes, der wohl wichtigste Mitarbeiter Obamas, in einem ausführlichen Porträt…

Hatte Saudi Arabien etwas mit den Anschlägen vom 11. September zu tun? Anlässlich des Staatsbesuchs von Barack Obama im Königreich in der vergangenen Woche wurde diese Frage wieder einmal breit diskutiert. Im Zentrum der Debatte standen bis heute geheim gehaltene 28 Seiten aus dem Bericht der 9/11-Untersuchungskommission, in denen, wie…

​„The 28 pages of a Congressional report detailing where the 9/11 hijackers got their financing have been classified for years, but what they contain is an open secret. Former Senator Bob Graham explained: ‚The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at…