Artículo TomDispatch, 08.09.2015 Tom Engelhardt, co-fundador del American Empire Project y miembro del National InstituteFourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental...
Yemen in Meltdown: Domestic and Regional Competitions and the Destruction of Nationhood
Artículo IDSA (Special Feature), 12.08.2015 Talmiz Ahmad, embajador (r) indioIn the third week of July 2015, the port, airport and presidential palace in Aden, the historic city at the mouth of the Red Sea, fell into the hands of forces representing the ousted Yemeni president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, marking the first success in the counter-assault mounted...
Why Many Muslims Hate the West
Artículo Consortiumnews, 05.08.2015 William R. Polk, consultor en política internacional, escritor y ex profesor en HarvardMany Americans and Westerners are baffled by the violent rage expressed by many Muslims, but the reasons for their anger are real, deriving from a “deep history” of anti-Islamic wars and colonial exploitation of the Middle EastThe issue of terrorist attacks on America...
Sirios, kurdos, ISIS: cuando las potencias echan lastre
Columna Clarín, 31.07.2015 Marcelo CantelmiConviene dedicar atención a las nuevas alianzas y movimientos que surgen desde el pacto con Irán y por la dimensión real que parece haber tenido ese convenio. Muchos de los instrumentos que fueron útiles antes dejan de serlo en este presente, el ISIS, los kurdos sirios y muy posiblemente el régimen de Damasco....
Comprendre les origines de la guerre au Yémen
Reportaje Le Monde, 18.04.2015Depuis le 26 mars, une coalition militaire menée par l'Arabie saoudite bombarde le Yémen. Elle agit à la demande du président Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, chassé du pays par une rébellion et réfugié à Riyad. Les rebelles houthistes, des chiites originaires du nord du pays, cibles des bombardements, sont quant à eux soutenus par l'Iran,...
The U.S. Hand in the Syrian Mess
Opinión Consortiumnews, 20.07.2015 Jonathan Marshall, investigador periodístico independiente(Part I) Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change”.Syria’s current leader,...
La geopolítica de tres ‘zonas calientes’ en el mundo
Juan Salazar Sparks[1]
Cualquier análisis sobre la actual situación internacional debería reconocer que hay tres grandes "zonas calientes" en el mundo, donde los intereses en juego están desembocando en peligrosos conflictos armados: Ucrania, el Mar de China meridional, y el Medio Oriente.En los primeros dos casos arriba mencionados, advertimos que se trata de pugnas...
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What Northern Ireland Teaches Us about Today’s War on Terror
Artículo GlobalPost, 15.07.2015 Corinne Purtill, corresponsal senior en el Reino UnidoIt was the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on London's transport system, and the memorial in Hyde Park was awash in flowers. Fifty-two metal plinths — one for each person killed on London Tube trains and buses on July 7, 2005 — rose against the sunny summer sky....
A Solution for Syria
Análisis OpenDemocracy, 16.07.2015 Bassma Kodmani, director ejecutivo de Arab Reform InitiativeSyria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian conflict through a political solution do not exist. An excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis. Creating the conditions for a political solution Syria is known to Arabs as the heart...
The Taliban
Resumen ejecutivo CFR "InfoGuide" Presentation, 22.01.2015
- The Taliban has outlasted the world’s most potent military forces and its two main factions now challenge the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- As U.S. troops draw down, the next phase of conflict will have consequences that extend far beyond the region.