Essentially, the unipolar world is simply a means of justifying dictatorship over people and countries. The unipolar world turned out too uncomfortable, heavy and unmanageable a burden even for the self-proclaimed leader. Comments along this line were made here just before and I fully agree with this. This is why we see attempts at this new historic stage to recreate a semblance of a quasi-bipolar world as a convenient model for perpetuating American leadership. It does not matter who takes the place of the centre of evil in American propaganda, the USSR’s old place as the main adversary. It could be Iran, as a country seeking to acquire nuclear technology, China, as the world’s biggest economy, or Russia, as a nuclear superpower.

Today, we are seeing new efforts to fragment the world, draw new dividing lines, put together coalitions not built for something but directed against someone, anyone, create the image of an enemy as was the case during the Cold War years, and obtain the right to this leadership, or diktat if you wish. The situation was presented this way during the Cold War. We all understand this and know this. The United States always told its allies: “We have a common enemy, a terrible foe, the centre of evil, and we are defending you, our allies, from this foe, and so we have the right to order you around, force you to sacrifice your political and economic interests and pay your share of the costs for this collective defence, but we will be the ones in charge of it all of course.” In short, we see today attempts in a new and changing world to reproduce the familiar models of global management, and all this so as to guarantee their [the US’] exceptional position and reap political and economic dividends.

But these attempts are increasingly divorced from reality and are in contradiction with the world’s diversity.

„Wir sind uns darüber im Klaren, dass die Welt in eine Epoche von Wandlungen und tiefgreifender Transformationen eingetreten ist. Daher müssten wir alle äußerst vorsichtig sein, um unbedachte Schritte zu vermeiden. In der Zeit nach Ende des Kalten Krieges haben sich die Teilnehmer der internationalen Politik etwas entspannt. Jetzt kommt es darauf an, sich an das Alte zu erinnern… Sonst wird die gegenwärtige Krise einen Zusammenbruch der globalen Ordnung einleiten“, warnte Putin.

Recent developments make Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani more than ever critical in shaping the regional politics. By being at the epicenter of US-PYD-Turkey relations, the Kurdistan Regional Government needs to capitalize on this moment of opportunity.

Mustafa Gurbuz is a policy fellow at Center for Global Policy at George Mason University and a research fellow at Rethink Institute in Washington, DC.

(23. Oktober) After 10 days of negotiations, the agreement was announced between the Kurdish National Assembly in Syria, or the ENKS, and the Western Kurdistan Democratic Social Movement or Democratic Society Movement, or the TEV-DEM. Both sides also held a meeting with the Kurdish regional government‘s leader, Massoud Barzani. (…)
The Kurdish National Assembly in Syria is considered close to Barzani.
Dohuk is the capital of Dohuk Governorate in Iraq.

(19. September) The first bill expresses a sense of the House of Representatives that it supports the intention of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to hold a referendum on independence. A successful referendum, according to the congressman’s initiative, would be honored by the United States, which would recognize Kurdistan as “an independent and sovereign country.”

Rohrabacher also introduced legislation to enable Kurdistan to sell its crude oil more freely and to send arms to its regional government, thereby bypassing Baghdad’s bureaucracy.

(25. September) Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5679) to „clarify the ownership of crude oil produced within the jurisdiction of the Kurdistan Regional Govern . . .

(23. Oktober) Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) has sponsored a bill that seeks to endorse the Kurds’ right to sell oil, including inside the U.S. “We need to ensure the Kurds are a force substantial enough to counter [Islamic State], but right now we’re trying to make them subservient to Baghdad,” says Rohrabacher, who in 2009 sponsored legislation to establish a U.S. consulate in the Kurdish capital of Erbil, which opened in 2011.

(23. Oktober) Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (krg.org) – Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani yesterday received France’s newly appointed ambassador to Iraq, Mr Mark Barety, and his accompanying delegation.

(17. Oktober) The Prime Minister, along with a number of senior Kurdistan Regional Government officials yesterday in Erbil welcomed the United States Deputy National Secretary Advisor Anthony Blinken and his accompanying delegation.

(14. Oktober) Secretary Hammond also commented on bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and the Kurdistan Region, reflecting his country‘s interest in developing and consolidating the relationship acros all sectors. He added that this matter had been discussed with Prime Minister Barzani during his last trip to the United Kingdom. He highlighted the importance of continued cooperation to commence direct flights between London and Erbil, adding that they will work to complete this initiative in a way that suits both parties.

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Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin nimmt an der Schlusstagung des 11. Treffens des Internationalen Diskussionsclubs Valdai teil. RIA Novosti überträgt die Tagung zum Thema „Die neue Weltordnung: Neue Regeln oder keine Regeln?“ live mit englischer Übersetzung.

Die syrische Armee hat den Extremisten im Distrikt Shaer in der Provinz Homs die Erdölbohrung abgerungen, wie der libanesische TV-Sender „Al-Mayadin“ berichtet.

Dem TV-Sender zufolge setzen die Regierungstruppen die Offensive fort, um alle Erdöl-Reviere der Provinz, die in Zentralsyrien liegt, von Extremisten zu befreien.

Syria’s Permanent Envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that time has come for the UN to move and punish the terrorist coalition of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel which seeks to destroy Syria and eliminate the Palestinian cause in order to achieve the so-called project of “Israel as a Jewish state”.

Russian Foreign Ministry said the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization has seized US weapons because the US refused to cooperate with the Syrian government in the war on terror.

“There is no coordination whatsoever between the Coalition and Damascus because Washington insists on not acknowledging the Syrian government as a partner in the war against terrorism,” the RT website quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich as saying during a press conference in Moscow.

The motion called on the „Government to formally recognise the state of Palestine and do everything it can to help secure a viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so that citizens of both states can live in peace and security“.

It had cross-party support and passed without a vote.

‚Palestine 194‘: The energetic global diplomatic and public relations efforts toward Palestinian state recognition that largely bypasses the U.S. and leaves Israel to protest from the sidelines.

If Israelis like me are ‚radical left,‘ then there are no more moderates among us and the whole country is right, posing as ‚center.‘

List of speakers:
1.Belize
2.Tunisia
3.Zimbabwe
4.Indonesia
5.Observer State of the Holy See
6.Plurinational State of Bolivia
7.Malaysia
8.Namibia
9.Islamic Republic of Iran
10.Nicaragua
11.Kazakhstan
12.Cuba
13.Iceland
14.Sri Lanka
15.Algeria
16.Peru
17.South Africa
18.Bahrain
19.Maldives
20.Ukraine
21.Philippines
22.India
Israel (further statements)
Palestine (further statements)

List of speakers:
1. Lithuania
2.Argentina (President)
3.Lebanon
4.Egypt
5.Saudi Arabia
6.Syrian Arab Republic
7.Guatemala
8.Brazil
9.Japan
10.Pakistan
11.His Excellency Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting-Head of the Delegation of the Eupean Union to the United Nations
12.Morocco
13.Norway
14.Qatar
15.India
16.Turkey
Kuwait
17.His Excellency Mr. Fode Seck, Chairman of the Committee on the excercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

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He said a resolution would be put to the United Nations Security Council next month calling for a November 2017 deadline for the establishment of two states based on the boundaries that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza and seized East Jerusalem – the areas the Palestinians want for an independent state.

President Rivlin just called Israel a ‚sick society.‘ If he was an American politician, he‘d be probably forced out of his job.

According to the latest decision, passengers coming to Israel from any country in Africa have to fill out a questionnaire and have their body temperature checked. This new protocol is an expansion of a procedure that included only passengers from countries with incidences of Ebola: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leon.

As part of the new protocol, even passengers coming from Cairo ¬— only about an hour flight from Tel Aviv — are getting tested, as they come from “Africa.”

Earlier, a number of Turkish media outlets reported that an independent Kurdish state will be created after elimination of the militants of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization in the Syrian town of Kobani and other cities in northern Syria.

(22. Oktober) Die Terrororganisation „Islamischer Staat“ (IS) hat in der syrischen Stadt Kobane offenbar doch kein Giftgas eingesetzt. „Ein Allergiepatient litt unter dem durch die Bombardierungen verursachten Rauch“, sagte Rami Abd al-Rahman, Leiter der Syrischen Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte.

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