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West’s poker face at Middle Eastern grand chessboard

February 19, 2012 16:21

The planned neo-colonial takeover of the Middle East is gearing up. As the heat rises, the West finds it increasingly difficult to proceed with its grab for dominance and maintain a brave face, says political analyst Adrian Salbuchi.

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John Ellis 18.04.2012 13:40

There can be no secular solution to a criminal government,
until there is a moral solution to an immoral society Can you name a single international controversy involving Empire USA, that if resolved would result in more wealth for the American corporate rich? No for --- (1) Keeping Israel a terrorist state allows US corporations to maximize profits in the trading of Middle-East oil for war materials made in USA. (2) Keeping the Iraq, Palestine and Afghan civil wars in a state of maximum violence, this for the US Military Industrial Complex generates the maximum profit. (3) Keeping Russia and China constantly provoked with things like a first-strike missile shield in Europe and troop deployment to Australia, this allows the US to keep its 800 military bases active and to be a legalized killer for any oppressive dictatorship that will allow US merchants of death to plunder cheep labor and natural resources. ROOT CAUSE
US voting majority is the 51% most educated and wealthy, the upper half of society that loves to keep the lower half in minimum wage poverty and by wars of imperial aggression plunder the world. SOLUTION
The rich ruling class, the 25% most wealthy, do not allow them to vote or have anything to do with politics.

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LETS BE CLEAR ABOUT THE FACTS 18.04.2012 11:04

Whilst it is true to say that the zionist colonialists have installed puppets in 90% of middle eastern nations you can hardly call the past 10 years a geopolitical success!. Today more middle easterners than ever are becoming muslim s due to a unity around a common enemy. All the puppets are at risk of being overthrown, the zionists are much more in the spotlight than ever before, and the western economy has suffered a heart attack and a stroke combined. These are not the signs of what i would call a successfull geopolitical zionist campaign. I would call it a disaster of epic proportions for zionism and the west but dont mention this in govt as its a bit of a sore subject for our zionist masters at the top.

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J (unregistered) 23.02.2012 17:04

How do you call this "news"? It even start off very unobjective - "The planned neo-colonial takeover of the Middle East is gearing up."

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Catherine 23.02.2012 08:58

Please ignore my friend Bob here, he is a little obnoxious. He has been thick-skulled and indoctrinated, ever since he has grown up in the luxuries of NATO/WEST benefit system  plunde red from non-alligned nations.

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Catherine 23.02.2012 08:45

Great analysis (CON) to an equally great article (SALBUCHI).

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Bob (unregistered) 22.02.2012 07:07

Mr. Salbuchi,   Great of you to write back. Let me address some points you made and get right to the underlying   issue. So being culturally Italian/Spanish aut omatically makes you a part of the West. I do not get that logic. Somehow I just cant picture Venezuela, Columbia, Peru or Brazil, all South Americans, as part of the West. Second point, using past events like the highly civilized Romans and  the nomadic Anglo-Saxon is a desperate last ditch attempt to glorify the present day Italians and Spaniards. It just tells me there is nothing worthy of mentioning about Italy/Spain in our last century. Ultimately , that reflects badly on Argentina, since Argentinians apparently look up to mother Spain and father Italy. (Yet mother Spain and father Italy, so busy keeping up with the Jones in Europe, really never had much time for baby Argentina. Wasn’t it a love-hate relationship with those two?) Frankly, it’s pathetic to use ancient history to make your point that country A is better than B. Thirdly, own up to your mistakes and past failures. Don’t be saying that foreign country A this did that to Argentina along with “local treacherous officer s” therefore the world must excuse Argentina for being so mediocre in today’s world. Own up and cast away the excuses. Those “treacherous officers” is Argentina and Argentina is those treacherous officer.   The real issue here is a failure of the article to filter out the emotion from the analysis. Logic gets muddled in the process, and so the truth gets distorted. An idea was formulated and then facts and examples are cherry picked to fit and strengthen the one idea.   Have good day. Thanks for the insights.

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Richard (unregistered) 22.02.2012 03:04

Actually Middle East countries need good government instead of democracy,that is when all calculations went wrong.Now with Arab spring,Middle East has become an area of minefields and would bring troubles to the whole world,time will tell its people that democracy might not be solution to its problem

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bert 21.02.2012 17:42

RTrocks wrote in #18
@bert

Some enlightenment for your own good...

peopl e read what RT has to say because their government is failing them badly... by failing to report what is going on in their own backyards.

If you find that RT publishes lies, WTH are you doing here. You are just lucky RT doesn't filter out the negative comments on this site as the Western media does with all its major publications.

Now you compare the information on this site with the lack of information on other sites... if a person doesn't warn you that you are in the path of an on-coming train do you blame that person for trying to convey to you some facts which might help your cause for survival.

Wha t's the saying again, "you can't teach people who plain refuse to listen". Do so at your own risk... but democracy was killed off by the very institution you trust to protect you many, many moons ago.... which is why people from Western countries are taking what RT has to say very, very seriously.

I' ve tried to link many news stories to RT and youtube in my postings to MSM but it just keeps getting blocked. Please RT, can we also have you establish more RT news centres across the Western world... because as sure as night follows day, the MSM definitely won't publish material that uncovers the true agenda of Western governments.


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bert February 20, 2012, 07:26 quote -6

Yeah, go on RT, bring lies into the world. Only fools lie to themselves. The west has a free press. I know lots people from countries in the Middle East. All are jealous of that free press in the west.

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Adrian Salbuchi 21.02.2012 15:19

Hi, Bob... Great humor!! So "West" is just US-UK-Aussie and NZ? FYI Argentina is culturally Italian (Roman Empire, ever hear of them?) and Spanish. These were highly civilized whilst the Anglo-Saxons were running around naked grunting through the forests of Nottingham with sticks and stones... Argentina developed jet fighters after WWII (Pulqui), we fully locally developed nuclear technology (we exported a nuclear reactor to Australia a couple of years ago) and even began introducing our currency into Europe after WWII (triggering US Marshall Plan). But... we were stopped dead in our tracks by UK-US financed military coups consisting of local trecherous officers. Get your facts right, Bob. Regards - Adrian Salbuchi   &n bsp; Bob (unregistered) wrote in #4
Hi Mr. Salbuchi,
Thanks for writing back, emotionally but charming.Getting to the point, unless one is afraid of it, why would the truth hurt? Does the truth hurt you? Sounds like you speak from personal experience? Respectfully, it's nonsense what you said about about "impossible for me to have a grudge with the West (because I live in the West)." It's like saying impossible for me to hate Argentina because I am Argentinian.You follow my drift? Any way, the West is not a geographical term the way you make it out to be. Where you live in Argentina is not the West, it's called Latin America. The West is mainly Australia(how strange) Europe, U.S., and Canada...nations that share similar values.Sorry, but Latin America is NOT the West.  For a ship like Dauntless, designed to be one of the most effective killing machine, you come up with adjectives like wonderful and admirable? Would it be appropriate to say the hydrogen bomb is a wonderful and admirable weapon? On a side note, where the heck will the govt of Argentina will find the money to acquire "many Dauntless"? Even IF Argentina has the money, who is going to give Argentina the technology? Argentina has homegrown technology of the likes? It's no accident that Britain has many Dauntless.  The only language London and Washington understand is through the barrel of a gun? If that's your attitude, it's no wonder all you will get are their barrels pointing back at you, bigger ones too.  In my humble opinion, there isn't enough truth nor logic in what you wrote in your article.  I do realize you have to play up to your constituents. Thanks again for your response.

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Bob (unregistered) 21.02.2012 06:18

Hi Mr. Salbuchi,
Thanks for writing back, emotionally but charming.Getting to the point, unless one is afraid of it, why would the truth hurt? Does the truth hurt you? Sounds like you speak from personal experience? Respectfully, it's nonsense what you said about about "impossible for me to have a grudge with the West (because I live in the West)." It's like saying impossible for me to hate Argentina because I am Argentinian.You follow my drift? Any way, the West is not a geographical term the way you make it out to be. Where you live in Argentina is not the West, it's called Latin America. The West is mainly Australia(how strange) Europe, U.S., and Canada...nations that share similar values.Sorry, but Latin America is NOT the West.  For a ship like Dauntless, designed to be one of the most effective killing machine, you come up with adjectives like wonderful and admirable? Would it be appropriate to say the hydrogen bomb is a wonderful and admirable weapon? On a side note, where the heck will the govt of Argentina will find the money to acquire "many Dauntless"? Even IF Argentina has the money, who is going to give Argentina the technology? Argentina has homegrown technology of the likes? It's no accident that Britain has many Dauntless.  The only language London and Washington understand is through the barrel of a gun? If that's your attitude, it's no wonder all you will get are their barrels pointing back at you, bigger ones too.  In my humble opinion, there isn't enough truth nor logic in what you wrote in your article.  I do realize you have to play up to your constituents. Thanks again for your response.

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Adrian Salbuchi 21.02.2012 01:20

Hi, Bob!   No distortions, mate: the Truth hurts!!!  Get used to that...  Also, it´s impossibl e for me to have "grudge with the West" (where the heck do you think Argentina lies, in Asia???).  Regarding the HMS Dauntless, she is a truly WONDERFUL and admirable ship.   I don't complain about the UK.  I complain at my own government of Argentina that is so stupid and weak that they don't understand WE should have many "Dauntless" warships.  THAT's the ONLY language London and Washington seem to understand.  Cheers!  Adrian Salbuchi  (Buenos Aires - Argentina)   Bob (unregistered) wrote in #3
A distorted article laced with ulterior motives. Guessing that the author has a grudge over theWest, in particular, a ship named Dauntless.

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bilal 20.02.2012 22:37

great article, even greater comments.

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Bob (unregistered) 20.02.2012 21:01

A distorted article laced with ulterior motives. Guessing that the author has a grudge over theWest, in particular, a ship named Dauntless.

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