Foreign Service
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Obama keeps hold of the Syrian ball By M K Bhadrakumar
Moscow now admits that the current controversy over the chemical weapons attacks near Damascus might be a pre-meditated one choreographed carefully with a political objective. But then, it is too late, since it emerges that Sellstrom is unbound already and is at large, and Moscow cannot easily circumscribe his future activities in Syria. Continue reading
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Egypt's Sisi banishes wild dogs By M K Bhadrakumar
It doesn’t look good for the bedraggled Syrian dogs of war, now that Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattel al-Sisi has ordered Syrian National Council leaders to leave Cairo. They aren’t going to be safe in Istanbul either. With strange things beginning to happen all over the Middle East, it looks like the Syrian-regime-hugging Russian bear is… Continue reading
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Pharaoh al-Sisi sits tight By M K Bhadrakumar
Both Washington and Moscow have chosen to view the Egyptian developments largely through the geopolitical prism and their respective self-interests, singularly devoid of any human compassion or political morality. Their credentials to take to the high ground on the Middle East issues – Palestine problem or Syria or the Arab Spring – have now come… Continue reading
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‘Turkey should show evidence for their complaint’
Syria has refuted as “absolutely untrue” Turkish allegations that a civilian plane headed for Damascus was carrying Russian-made munitions. Meanwhile, analysts doubt the Turks could have found anything compromising enough to back their claims. Continue reading
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Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State
Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, and how the has already charged more people under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. Continue reading
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Run-up to proxy war over Syria By M K Bhadrakumar
If a date needs to fixed marking the end of “post-Soviet era” in world politics, it might fall on February 4, 2012. Russia and China’s double veto of the Arab League resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council constitutes a watershed event. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 