As Gadaffi totters and Saudi Arabia, the Big One, comes into the Arab revolution’s sights, the hypocrisy that has long held the Arab states in bondage is coming home to roost. The West’s deal with the Arab dictators is coming unstuck, big time. Despite all the Western pretensions about democracy, women’s rights, cracking down on […]
Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Everything you’ve read about the Lockerbie saga is false
Feb 9th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Not for the first time the Lockerbie narrative is being distorted out of all recognition for political ends, by the US-UK governments in the 1990s, by the UK Government and the Scottish Executive in 2009, and now by Cameron in his statement on Tuesday. Cameron’s line was that Labour “had done all it could to facilitate” the […]
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Egypt Revolts: Al-Jazeera Reports
Jan 29th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Back in the 1960s, those who argued for military intervention in Indo China would often refer to the “domino theory”. If one pro Western Government fell to the Communists, the domino would fall, taking the next one with it and so on. The shakiest domino, after the fall of Dien Bien Phu and France’s scuttle […]
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Is Iran leading Israel into a trap?
Oct 15th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.A thought occurred to me last night as I watched BBC Diplomatic Correspondent, Mark Urban, on Newsnight. And it was that perhaps Iran is egging Israel on to attack her nuclear facilities? Urban’s report focussed on Iran’s big nuclear build out, and the fact that much of the new processing plant is now buried underground, […]
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US folly on Iran
Jun 10th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.When will the US ever learn that the Iranian problem is insoluble outside the framework of a wider non-nuclear agreement for the Middle East as a whole? The latest round of sanctions – the fourth since 2006 – won’t cut any ice with a determined and intransigent Iran at all. But there is […]
