Day: February 13, 2019

The Redirection [2007]

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?

The New Yorker, March 5, 2007

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Efforts to curb Iran’s influence have involved the United States in worsening Sunni-Shiite tensions.

A STRATEGIC SHIFT

In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

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VENEZUELA DEFINES THE FUTURE OF THE REGION BY CLAUDIO KATZ

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

H/T William Bowles

13 February 2019 — MROnline

by Claudio Katz

Originally published: Claudio Katz Blog – Translated by Nicolas Allen (February 8, 2019)

Guaidó’s self-proclamation as Venezuelan president is the most ridiculous and dangerous coup attempt in recent years. With the shameless backing of Washington, the Venezuelan rightwing intends to place a complete stranger at the helm of the state.

This time around, the starting signal was neither a terrorist attack nor an assassination attempt directed against Maduro. Trump has chosen a group of conspiracy experts (Abrams, Pence, Bolton, Rubio) to pursue escalation and has opted to seize the Venezuelan oil enterprise operating in the United States (CITGO). He has brushed aside all principles of legal guarantee in his quest to appropriate the world’s largest concentration of crude oil reserves.

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