Die US-Regierung drohte nach der Doppelwahl von Sonntag mit weiteren Sanktionen gegen die Regierung von PrĂ€sident Maduro. Washington werde die wirtschaftliche und diplomatische Hilfe fĂŒr das GuaidĂł-Lager verstĂ€rken, hieĂ es von dieser Seite. „Die USA werden mehr unternehmen, um der Nationalversammlung und ihrer legitimen FĂŒhrung durch verstĂ€rkten Druck gegen die Diktatur, ihre FĂŒhrer und VerbĂŒndeten innerhalb und auĂerhalb Venezuelas zu helfen“, sagte der US-Sondergesandte fĂŒr Venezuela Elliott Abrams.
Daily Archives: 7. Januar 2020
Sat. Jan. 25 â Global Day of Protest â No War On Iran!
The Trump administration is dragging the United States into a war with Iran that could engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict of unpredictable scope and the gravest consequences.
The people of the world need to rise up and stop it. For all who believe in peace, for all who are opposed to yet another catastrophic war, now is the time to take action. On Saturday, January 25 in cities across the globe, there will be protests against a new war in the Middle East. Please join us.
A coalition of anti-war groups around the world has just issued a call for a Global Day of Protest for #NoWarOnIran. The Feb. 15 2003 Global Protest against war on Iraq was the biggest day of protest in history. Letâs build. Get involved:
Mike Prysner Speech: No War on Iran! Troops Out of Iraq!
(04.01.2019)
Mike Prysner gives a powerful anti-war speech at the demonstration against Trumpâs bombing of Iraq and potential war against Iran on January 4 in downtown Los Angeles at Answer Coalitionâs National Day of Action.
Mike Prysner Protests Obama‘s Wars
Iraq War Vet Mike Prysner
Protests Obama‘s Wars
Veterans for Peace
White House
December 16, 2010, 10 am
News Analysis: Importing Qatari gas helps Kuwait cut expense, pollutants: experts
Kuwait and Qatar signed on Sunday a long-term sale and purchase agreement for the annual supply of up to 3 million tons of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Kuwait.
Pelosi‘s move to boost moderate Elissa Slotkin, who will „lead“ the House resolution to restrict Trump‘s war powers, is a dismissal of progressives @RoKhanna, @BernieSanders & others who have already passed legislation to restrict Trump‘s ability to go to war with Iran.
Pelosi to Introduce War Powers Resolution to âLimit the Presidentâs Military Actions Regarding Iranâ
„This week, the House will introduce and vote on a War Powers Resolution to limit the Presidentâs military actions regarding Iran. This resolution is similar to the resolution introduced by Senator Tim Kaine in the Senate. It reasserts Congressâs long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administrationâs military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.
The House Resolution will be led by Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. Congresswoman Slotkin is a former CIA and Department of Defense analyst specializing in Shia militias. She served multiple tours in the region under both Democratic and Republican Administrations.“
Yeah, I donât know why people are up in arms about this. Many other countries have multiparty democracies, where several parties come together in a coalition to govern. In another country, Iâd be in a Labor Party like Jacinda Ardern. Our primary field would cover 2-3 parties.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasnât Changed Her Much.
She isnât especially interested in compromising with those who donât share her values, and isnât afraid to be the lone ânoâ vote, as she was last January, when she was the only Democrat to vote against funding the government because it meant continuing to fund ICE. Twelve months later, it is clear she isnât trying very hard to amass power in Congress. Her heroes are Bernie Sanders, who withstood party pressure decade after decade in the Senate, and Howard Thurman, a mentor of Martin Luther King Jr.âs who believed in merging the spiritual and political.
Is this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s Democratic Party now?
„Since 2014, the percentage of Democrats identifying as liberal has increased at an even faster rate of two points per year on average,“ wrote Gallup‘s Lydia Saad of the numbers.
The Gallup data is consistent with more recent polling conducted by CNN, too. In CNN‘s mid-December national poll, 50% of respondents called themselves liberals as compared to 36% who chose the term moderate and 10% conservative.
Presidential candidate @BernieSanders hammers Joe Biden for his Iraq War, NAFTA votes. âI just donât think that that kind of record is going to bring forth the kind energy we need to defeat Trump.â
AOC: ‚In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party‘
Asked for a profile by New York Magazine about what role she might play as a member of Congress should Biden capture the White House, the freshman House Democrat from New York responded with a groan.
âOh God,â she said. âIn any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.â
After 16 years of war in Iraq, trillions of dollars, the deaths of 4,500 U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, the Iraqi government is now trying to throw us out of their country. All that suffering, all that death, all that huge expenditure of money, for what?
Pompeo again declines to present evidence of ‚imminent‘ threat that led to strike against Iranian general
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, is pushing for the declassification of Trump‘s formal notification to Congress over Soleimani‘s killing, which has sparked a dangerous escalation between the two longtime foes.
Several sources have told CNN that the notification was brief, contained few operational details and essentially laid out the President‘s authorities to carry out the strike.
Itâs no laughing matter ?
(05.01.2020)
George Carlin: „We Like War!“
(recorded 1992)
Song: Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf
Artist: George Carlin
Album: Jammin‘ in New York
George Carlin: We Like War
(1992)
Iâd like to talk a little bit about the war in the Persian Gulf⊠biiiiiigâ doingsâ in the Persianâ Gulf. You know my favourite partâ of that war? Itâs the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable⊠and the war got good ratings too, didnât it? Got good ratings! Well, we like war!!! We like war! Weâre a war-like people! We like war because weâre good at it! You know why weâre good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice. This countryâs only 200 years old and already, weâve had 10 major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country so weâre good at it! And itâs a good thing we are; weâre not very good at anything else anymore! Huh? Canât build a decent car, canât make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, canât educate our young people, canât get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right! Huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people; oh we like that donât we? Thatâs our hobby! Thatâs our new job in the world: bombing brown people. Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya, you got some brown people in your country, tell them to watch the fuck out or weâll goddamn bomb them! Well whenâs the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember the last whiteâ can you remember ANY white people weâve ever bombed? The Germans, those are the only ones and thatâs only because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world! BULLSHIT! THATâS OUR FUCKING JOB!!!
ABC der Offenheit: Was ist Open Government?
âWissen ist offen, wenn jede:r darauf frei zugreifen, es nutzen, verĂ€ndern und teilen kann â eingeschrĂ€nkt höchstens durch MaĂnahmen, die Ursprung und Offenheit des Wissens bewahren.â
Regierung will weniger gefragt werden
Es sei wĂŒnschenswert, »wenn wir zu einer gemeinsamen und fĂŒr alle Seiten tragfĂ€higen Ăbereinkunft kommen könnten, die auch eine Reduzierung des Frageaufkommens einschlieĂen sollte«. Kleine Anfragen sind ein wichtiges Instrument im Rahmen der Kontrollfunktion des Bundestages gegenĂŒber der Regierung.
Defence secretary Ben Wallace makes statement in the Commons on Iran â watch live
Defence secretary Ben Wallace updates MPs – returning to the House of Commons after their Christmas break â on the latest in the Middle East, following the assassination of Iran military leader Qassem Suleimani last week. He makes the statement in place of Boris Johnson, who is chairing a meeting of the UK national security council to discuss the crisis.
Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of providing ‚cover‘ to Trump over assassination of Iran general
Mr Corbyn branded the drone strike on the leader of Iranâs feared Quds Force an âassassinationâ and told the House of Commons that it was widely regarded as illegal.
And he accused the prime minister of hiding away from scrutiny after Mr Johnson sent defence secretary Ben Wallace to answer MPsâ questions on the 3 January killing in Baghdad.
Die Kulturzerstörer
Die Bundesregierung schweigt dazu. Klar Position bezieht sie hingegen zu MaĂnahmen Irans. So erklĂ€rte etwa AuĂenminister Heiko Maas nach der Mitteilung der iranischen Regierung, man werde die BeschrĂ€nkungen des Atomabkommens erst dann wieder in vollem Umfang akzeptieren, wenn alle anderen Vertragsparteien ihre Verpflichtungen einhielten: „Das, was Iran jetzt angekĂŒndigt hat, werden wir nicht einfach so achselzuckend hinnehmen können“. „Achselzuckend nimmt die Bundesregierung freilich nicht nur die AnkĂŒndigung des US-PrĂ€sidenten hin, im Falle eines iranischen Gegenschlags mit der Zerstörung iranischen Kulturguts mutwillig ein Kriegsverbrechen zu begehen. Schon den völkerrechtswidrigen Mord an Soleimani und an weiteren hochrangigen MilitĂ€rs hatte Berlin nicht als Verbrechen klassifiziert.
âUS entitled to defend itselfâ Britain backs Trump over Iran strike that killed Soleimani
(05.12.2019)
In the absence of Mr Johnson, who is on a Caribbean holiday with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds, Defence minister Ben Wallace said Washington has a right to respond to earlier attacks from Iran that resulted in an assault on the US embassy in Baghdad.
I‘ve written to Boris Johnson requesting an urgent Privy Council briefing and answers to questions following the US assassination of Qassem Suleimani.
(03.01.2019)
EU HR Borrell meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom: roundtable
Josep BORRELL, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, meets with Heiko MAAS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany; Jean-Yves LE DRIAN, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France; Luigi DI MAIO, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy; Dominic RAAB, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State of the United Kingdom, on 7 January 2020, in Brussels.
Foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany and Italy are meeting to discuss Iran and Libya. Journalist Lucy Hough reports from Brussels
Iran FM vows proportionate response to US terror act after assassination of General Soleimani
Elsewhere in his interview, Zarif responded to a question if it was worth speaking to Trump and said, „It doesn‘t need speaking. He has to realize that he has been fed misinformation. And he needs to wake up, and apologize. He has to apologize, he has to change course.“
Israeli defense officials told security cabinet ministers that the likelihood of an Iranian response against Israel is low as of now
âI was supposed to meet Soleimani at the morning the day he was killed, he came to deliver me a message from Iran responding to the message we delivered from Saudi to Iranâ Iraqi PM said.
(05.01.2019)
Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trumpâs lie of âimminent attacksâ
According to Abdul-Mahdi, he had planned to meet Soleimani on the morning the general was killed to discuss a diplomatic rapproachment that Iraq was brokering between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Abdul-Mahdi said that Trump personally thanked him for the efforts, even as he was planning the hit on Soleimani â thus creating the impression that the Iranian general was safe to travel to Baghdad.
Russia‘s Putin Travels to Syria to Meet With Assad
The Russian President‘s visit to Syria on Tuesday marked the second time ever that he has traveled to the Arab Republic.
NATO chief: Strike that killed Soleimani was a ‚U.S. decision‘
No evidence that guided the strike has been made public.
âWe had several briefers from the United States, from the State and from Pentagon and they briefed and explained to other allies why they took this action against General Soleimani,â Stoltenberg said without going into detail.
The alliance chief was asked several times by reporters about whether the U.S. action had been criticized by other NATO members during the meeting. But he didn‘t provide a clear answer,
Iran pedals Hormuz Peace Endeavour for regional trade, economic cooperation
Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran
With full understanding of the existing threats and challenges, and in order to reduce tensions and insecurities and control the soaring chain of crisis which may result into an indescribable tragedy, the Islamic Republic of Iran has proposed three initiatives: Hormuz Peace Endeavor, regional negotiation forum and non-aggression pact, for providing ground for the beginning of establishment of coalitions for trade, economic and cultural approaches among the regional countries in place of coalitions for military and security approaches, because we believe that the fate of the public and nations of the region are intertwined together and regional security is not divisible, so security or insecurity affects the whole region.
US has no right to be part of HOPE initiative: Deputy FM
Tehran Dialogue Forum, which will run through Wednesday, Jan. 8, aims at reviewing the latest developments in the Persian Gulf region and evaluating regional cooperation plans, including the Iranian-proposed peace initiative dubbed âHormuz Peace Endeavorâ (HOPE).