Schlagwort: USA

„Iran’s central bank must pay nearly $2 billion to victims of terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. In a 6-to-2 decision, the court said Congress had not exceeded its constitutional role in enacting a statute to make it easier for the plaintiffs to recover damages that had been…

Von Manfred Gerstenfeld Er selbst nennt sich einen Sozialisten, doch die meisten Amerikaner begreifen nicht, wofür dieser Begriff im heutigen Europa steht. 2014 führte die Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in hundert Staaten und Entitäten eine Studie über Antisemitismus durch. Die Top-Ten-Länder – in jedem von ihnen hegen über 80 Prozent der…

„Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks. The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the…

„Obwohl die Europäer die Kunst des Verdrängens und Verleugnens meisterlich beherrschen, lassen sich nach den Explosionen in Brüssel einige Fakten nicht ignorieren: Nicht mehr die USA sind der Hauptgegner der islamistischen Terroristen, sondern die Länder des alten Kontinents. Nach dem 11. September 2001 hatten sich nicht wenige Europäer damit beruhigt,…

„President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the ‚spirit‘ of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the ‚letter‘ of the pact. In comments following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Obama denied speculation that the United States would ease rules preventing dollars from being…

„Hezbollah Brigades fighters in Iraq have threatened to attack the American soldiers stationed in the country, following the decision by the US army to send reinforcements to Iraq to support the international coalition in its fights against ISIS. In a statement released Sunday, the Iranian-backed organization active in Iraq and…

„Der Artikel des Time-Magazins vom 15. Oktober 2015 befasst sich mit dem Tod von Baha Alijan. ‚Alijan, ein Grafik-Designer aus dem überwiegend palästinensischen Viertel Dschabel Mukaber, wurde von israelischen Sicherheitskräften getötet, nachdem er angeblich einen Terroranschlag in Jerusalem verüben wollte.‘ Die Überschrift des Artikels lautet ‚Die Verzweiflung, die junge Palästinenser…

„Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday Washington has continued its animosity toward Tehran, despite a friendly message by President Barack Obama marking the Persian New Year. In a New Year’s speech on Sunday in the northern city of Mashhad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had not kept to its commitment…

„As with the president’s comments, largely missing from this formulation was what the Palestinians have been doing. Neither the president nor the Times think the fact that the Palestinians have repeatedly turned offers of peace and statehood from Israel is significant. Nor do they seem to care much about the…

„Iran’s top cleric has declared that Tehran must establish relations with the ‚whole world‘ besides for the United States and the ‚Zionist regime,‘ the country’s semi-official state news agency Mehr reported on Thursday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the statement during a meeting of the newly elected Assembly of Experts, the body charged…

„The United States said on Friday air strikes by Syrian government forces that reportedly hit civilians were a clear violation of the cessation of hostilities.“ (Kurzmeldung auf euronews: „U.S. says Syrian air strikes a violation of truce deal“)

„The Romans had a word for it: principiis obsta, meaning ‚resist the beginnings‘ to avoid an unpleasant end. Syria is a perfect case study. Obama drew his vaunted ‚red line‘ over the use of chemical weapons in Syria before Bashar al-Assad massacred civilians with sarin, a nerve gas, in 2013.…

„U. S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized the silence of Palestinian leaders following a wave of Palestinian gun and knife attacks against Israeli Jews, including the stabbing death of an American tourist. The visiting vice president said there was no justification for Palestinians attacking Israelis and that the…

„‚Today we did not get any reports of ceasefire violations,‘ the US State Department spokesperson said dully on Tuesday, while even the Russians conceded that 18 ‚serious violations‘ of the ceasefire were committed, and social media had non-stop reports on dozens of battles with over 100 killed in Syria.  So…

„A combination of war fatigue, the financial crisis, energy self-sufficiency, and a desire to shift focus to Asia contributed to a scaling-back of American strategic engagement in the region. This was demonstrated most concretely by what regional allies saw as a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 and by…