Category: US Foreign Policy
That Firm Washington stance against Khadaffi in full
March 10th, 2011, No Comments
Hillary Clinton’s very own Rumsfeld moment:
Egyptian revolution continues
January 30th, 2011, No Comments
It’s been another eventful day in Egypt and more and more this feels like what watching the revolutions taking place in Eastern Europe in 1989 felt like — but hopefully Egypt won’t be another China. The best place to watch it all go down is still Al Jazeera,as the official Wikileaks twitter also acknowledges: Yes, [...]
The sort of “dialogue” the US so far has encouraged the Egyptian government in
January 29th, 2011, No Comments
“So I’m lying on the floor, stomach down, legs up, hands behind my back, my cheek on the floor, and then all of a sudden, the closest thing that I could think of really, to describe it, was someone pouring lava on my soles. That felt like nothing I could describe. I flipped from the [...]
You can’t make a sweet drink out of a rotten fish
January 28th, 2011, No Comments
The LBR’s Adam Shatz on Egypt’s anti-Mubarak protests and its reception abroad:
Despite the Mubarak regime’s efforts to invoke the spectre of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptians aren’t demonstrating for an Islamic government any more than the Tunisians were; they’re demonstrating for an honest government – one that will improve education and infrastructure, reduce poverty and inflation, [...]
Holland’s role in the world
January 14th, 2011, No Comments
As explained in a 2005 diplomatic cable from the American ambassador in Den Haag:
SUMMARY: With the EU divided and its direction uncertain, the Dutch serve as a vital transatlantic anchor in Europe. As one of the original six EU members, the Dutch ally with the British to counter Franco-German efforts to steer Europe off a [...]
QotD: Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks
December 9th, 2010, No Comments
Daniel Ellsberg was the man most responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers back in 1971, which showed that the US government had systematically lied about the War on Vietnam. It was a defining moment in American politics, as important if not moreso as Watergate and, like Watergate, it has become part of Boomer mythology. So [...]
Terrorists attack here
December 6th, 2010, No Comments
Wikileaks has released a list of locations of strategic interest to the United States which has prompted a flood of criticism from the US and its bootlickers, like Malcolm Rifkind accusing Wikileaks from aiding terrorists:
The list is “a gift to any terrorist (group) trying to work out what are the ways in which it can [...]
Cablegate: Holland has nuclear weapons
November 30th, 2010, No Comments
It’s been an open secret for years that there are still tactical nuclear weapons stationed in the Netherlands, probably at Volkel Air Base. Politically embarassing for both the Nehterlands and the US, their existence has never been confirmed or denied, though it is public knowledge that the Dutch airforce still has a nuclear strike task [...]
Leaked cables neither diplomatic nor surprising so far
November 29th, 2010, No Comments
I expect that browsing through the leaked diplomatic cables at Wikileaks will soon remind you of that old Bismarck saying about law and sausages; that if you’re fond of diplomacy, you’d better not know what went into the making of it. For those who think of aristocrats in powdered wigs spoiling their guests with chocolately [...]
Context dammit!
July 25th, 2010, No Comments
It’s nice that the Nation gets outraged about Obama approving cooperation between the US military and one of the more infamous Indonesian murder squads:
Yesterday’s announcement by the Obama administration that it is resuming military ties with the mass-murdering war criminals of Indonesia’s special forces ought to give us pause. Because the new relationship with Kopassus, [...]
