Reportaje El Confidencial, 22.10,2015 Daniel Iriarte
- Wikileaks publica correos privados del director de la CIA John Brennan, entre ellos una recomendación de 2008 de tender puentes con Teherán.
- Obama parece haberla seguido al pie de la letra
Playing the Long Game on Iran: The Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Republicans Game the System
Artículo TomDispatch, 23.08.2015 David Bromwich, columnista y profesor de literatura (Yale University)“We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, made that declaration to Jack Goldsmith of the Office of Legal Counsel in the months after September 11, 2001. Goldsmith...
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...
“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Artículo TomDispatch, 20.08.2015 Noam Chomsky, académico y profesor emeritus del Departamento de Linguística y Filosofía (MIT)Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the...
¿Quién frenará al Estado Islámico?
Opinión La Vanguardia, 17.08.2015 Félix FloresEl acuerdo entre Estados Unidos y Turquía no promete avances en Siria | El EI ha perdido un 9,4% de territorio en medio año gracias a las milicias kurdas de Siria e IraqA falta de una estrategia global y de gran alcance para destruir o por lo menos minar al Estado Islámico, las armas siguen teniendo la...
The Geopolitics of the Syrian Civil War
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 24.01.2014 Reva Bhalla, analista de seguridad con MBA (Georgetown University)International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to hammer out a settlement designed to end Syria's three-year civil war. The conference, however, will be far removed from the reality on the Syrian battleground. Only days before the conference was scheduled...
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....
Quantum Geopolitics
Análisis Stratfor, 28.07.2015 Reva Bhalla, experta en relaciones internacionalesForecasting the shape the world will take in several years or decades is an audacious undertaking. There are no images to observe or precise data points to anchor us. We can only create a picture, and a fuzzy one at best. This is, after all, our basic human empirical...
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,...