Schlagwort: USA

„Iran has not altered its posture on the global stage despite, over a year and a half ago, choosing to alter the nature of its controversial nuclear program, a senior White House official said on Thursday. (…) ‚Iran has not ceased its support for terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or its…

„Bei der Tat von Orlando scheint die Homophobie ebenfalls eine Rolle zu spielen. Möglich, dass ein homosexueller Täter aus Angst und Selbsthass gemordet hat, der IS lieferte ihm einen Ausweg aus Scham und Verunsicherung, mit der Tat eines machohaften Helden, der für den Übervater Allah tötet. Das Tabuisieren sexueller Themen…

„As a bilingual Arabic and English speaker from the Middle East, I took the liberty of browsing through Arabic news pages on Facebook earlier today; namely Al Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, BBC Arabic and a number of Egyptian news outlets to gauge how the Arab world was responding to the Orlando shooting.…

„Amerikanische Diplomaten kritisieren Obamas Syrien-Politik. In einer Protestnote haben 51 Mitarbeiter des amerikanischen Außenministeriums die Syrien-Politik der eigenen Regierung kritisiert. Sie fordern den Einsatz von Streitkräften gegen den syrischen Präsidenten Baschar al-Assad.“  (FAZ, weiter hier)

„Terroranschlag oder hate crime, Islamismus oder Homophobie? Auf diese vermeintliche Alternative schoss sich die mediale Suche nach dem Motiv des Attentäters des Massakers im schwullesbischen Club Pulse in Orlando schnell ein. Tatsächlich erweist sich das Attentat von Samstagnacht als eine Kombination aus beiden Motiven. Drängte offenkundig das homophobe Moment stärker…

„One of the unexpected results of President Barack Obama’s new opening to Iran is that U.S. taxpayers are now funding both sides of the Middle East’s arms race. The U.S. is deliberately subsidizing defense spending for allies like Egypt and Israel. Now the U.S. is inadvertently paying for some of…

Vor wenigen Tagen hat das US-State Departement seinen neuesten Bericht über globalen Terrorismus veröffentlicht. Und wie jedes Jahr führt der Iran mit Abstand:  „Iran remains the leading state sponsor of terrorism globally.“ Erneut auch wird, wie jedes Jahr, ein Iraner ganz besonders erwähnt: Quasim Soleimani, der Anführer der al-Quds-Brigaden. Über…

„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…

„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…

„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…

„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…

„Im Irak haben Demonstrierende Ende April das Parlament gestürmt. An die Spitze der bereits seit längerem existierenden, vormals säkularen Protestbewegung gegen die irakische Regierung hat sich mittlerweile der schiitische Kleriker Muqtada al-Sadr gesetzt. Dessen Miliz ermordete zahlreiche Sunniten und Andersdenkende. … Nun stellen sich in Bagdad viele die Frage, ob…

„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…

„In the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammed, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke in front of Ali Khamenei and many Iranian officials and Ambassadors from Muslim countries. In his speech, Rouhani attacked directly the United States and Israel (called the ‚illegitimate and usurper Zionist regime‘).…

„The Palestinian Authority is deceiving Western donor countries, falsely claiming to have stopped paying salaries to terrorist prisoners, and reaping more than a billion dollars/year in return. This special report by Palestinian Media Watch reveals a major fraud by the Palestinian Authority, through which it is reaping more than a…