Obama and allies must cut military funding

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By DR. ABDUL RUFF

 

[Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, Educationist,  Chronicler of Foreign occupations & Freedom movements (Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Chechnya, etc.) Chancellor-Founder of Centor for International Affairs(CIA); Specialist on State Terrorism ; Commentator  on world affairs & sport fixings, Expert on Mideast Affairs,Former university Teacher; Editor:INTERNATIONAL OPINION; Editor: FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES;  Palestine Times: RANDOM THOUGHTS; (http://abdulrubb.wordpress.com);  website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com/ mail: abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com]

 

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US military budget has harmed humanity. even while populations continue face  greater problem of sustenance and even existence as humans with status, the American and other regimes  keep raising the budget for militaries by stealing from welfare  sectors. With  CIA engineering regional tensions, every nation is forced to  cut social schemes and  add more  resources for  military and spend  the money on terror goods form USA and its allies. USA is using WB and IMF to coerce the developing nations to cut social sector spending and  subsidies meant  for common masses.   

 

For decades, it’s been a Holy Grail of progressive activists in the USA: Cut the bloated Pentagon budget and use the money for human needs instead. But US terrorist presidents increased military spending. Obama and Congress have made it this simple. The “grand bargain” that President Obama is seeking with Republicans who want to protect the bloated Pentagon budget would do three key things: 1. protect the bloated Pentagon budget; 2. cut Social Security and veterans’ benefits; and 3. raise taxes.

According to capitalist circles controlling the White House and neoconic Washington consensus, Obama’s proposal to cut Social Security is essential to the “grand bargain.” Indeed, cutting Social Security and veterans’ benefits while protecting the bloated Pentagon budget appears to be the core purpose of the “grand bargain.”

Democratic Bill Clinton and his Republican friend Bush Jr tried to privatize Social Security and add more resources to Pentagon terror infrastructure. Media as usual supported the state apparatus. But people defeated them

Both political outfits regulated by arms-liquor-oil lobbyists behave in tandem and ignore popular concerns.

Let the congress Obama fail to sustain a Pentagon of rogues and save humanity
Let all regime also cut military spending and make the spending transparent.

 

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د. عبد راف

 

Hopelessly Worthless Legacy of Obama

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Hopelessly Worthless Legacy of Obama

 

– By DR. ABDUL RUFF

 

 

 

 

 

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When Americans took a bold decision to elect a Black as their president, they seemed to seek peaceful world order after the terror ridden Bushdom era. They had expected Barack Obama to change US war policy meant only to advance energy and other goals illegally. But Obama misbehaved with the voters by escalating terror wars in Islamic world imitated by Bushdom rouges and added thousands more Muslim corpses in NATO terror kitty.

 

US President B Obama is no peace maker- he is at the most a poor tactician who failed to achieve anything significantly as world’s top diplomat. Obama refused to be the transformer, the peacemaker, the visionary leader as world had expected. Obama willingly missed a great opportunity to bring peace in Mideast by supporting the Palestine statehood vote in UN.

 

The UN vote for Palestine showed that Obama does not have the support of otherwise “willing and trusting partners” of Europe. Ironically, Obama set out not to preside over catastrophes in the Middle East but to transform the region for the better. He now risks being the president on whose watch it all became so much worse.

 

That the Palestinians got their vote passed by the UN without US support is a heavy slap on Obama’s face not by Israel but by the humanity.

 

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Energy rich Mideast has been the top priority for Washington bosses and Americans use Israel as a bargain chip to advance their energy interests.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are most intractable adversaries of USA.  But with a famously dysfunctional relationship with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama has struggled to find a solution to Palestine issue. Problems of saving Syria, resolving the Iranian nuclear issue, and achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace seem well beyond the president Obama’s capacity.

 

As the fanatic anti-mullahs in White push for pro-Zionist US policy in Obama regime, the Israeli fanatics got what they wanted from Obama.  They got him into their non-veg kitchen in Israel and made him repeat the usual US presidential rhetoric of supporting Zionist security as top US policy. He failed the Palestinians and failed himself.

 

As Obama kept himself away from all Israeli manoeuvrings for enlisting him in US-Israel joint crimes against humanity, Netanyahu and other hawkish Zionist leaders had increasingly worried about a possible pre-emptive US attack – as the only logical action to make the criminal regime behave – on Israel to remove all blockades and illegal settlements. But now Israeli criminals are more than assured of continued US terror support for the Zionist crimes in Palestine.

 

Arab Spring is yet produce Islamic results. It was, after all, Arabs’ ownership of their own politics that gave the Arab Spring its authenticity and legitimacy more than CIA interference. In the early acts of the Arab Spring, Obama was helping the CIA agents in the Libyan opposition to brutally get rid of Libyan leader Col Muammar al-Qaddafi. He ended dictatorial America’s authoritarian friends in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen.  But peace is in not on his agenda and indeed refused to move to the right side of history.

 

 

 

Had the Arab Spring moved in the right direction, Obama would have been hailed as a strategic genius for his smart, low-cost management from the sidelines. Sadly, it has moved the other way — toward instability, violence, and dashed hopes.. At worst, Obama seemed to have simply stopped caring. Unlike the period from 1986 to 1992, when Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Sr were perceived as proactive players in shaping events after the crumbling of the Soviet Union, Obama may be seen as more the bystander.

 

 

 

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The diehard neocons who engineered the route for Sept-11 hoax, still want the Pentagon to enter all energy rich or strategically important Muslim nations and destabilize and make them pro-America.  They believe and argue that Americans cannot force the Muslims now to be pro-America trying strategies from outside and the only way forward is to invade all Muslim nations one by one on some fake threat perceptions and engineer  anti-Islam  tactics indoors. . .

 

Israeli leaders use Iran as a cleaver move to sustain US terror links even through threats of resorting to military action against Iran on their own and they were  almost ready for a limited tactical deal on enrichment with prospective Iranian nukes. Israel’s strategic problem cannot be fixed since it focuses on expanding the illegal colony proliferations inside Palestine, especially Jerusalem.

 

 

 

Upon occupying Afghanistan forcefully, following Sept-11 hoax by creating Islamophobia, Obama’s predecessor Bush Jr went to war against Iraq, a war Obama had then strongly opposed, because of imaginary weapons of mass destruction but that only strengthened and emboldened an Israel that could cross some significant nuclear threshold on Obama’s watch.

 

Neocon nuts wanted and still want Mideast regional order transformed to suit US interests.

 

It was both Obama’s misfortune to have been president during a historic, once-in-a-century transformation of the Middle East but unable to bring peace to the region.

 

A grand bargain in which the anti-mullahs gave up opposition to their Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions would make the president look like a genius.

 

 

 

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Obama has left the Mideast a broken, angry, and dysfunctional region having lost millions of Muslims especially in Iraq.

 

 

 

Americans have lost the Middle East and antagonized Muslim fraternity world over mainly because of their arrogant and war policy and pro-Zionist agenda. Obama, like all his predecessors, has been just a toll in the hands of imperils capitalists.

 

Now America cannot dictate the course of events neither in Mideast nor elsewhere- not even in Israel.  The strange marriage of neocons and liberal interventionists has hammered home the theme that the president has lacked vision, leadership, and strength in responding to these historic transformations. The neocons still talk about the appointment of a “super envoy” to oversee America’s strategy toward the Arab Spring, the task forces to monitor regional developments around the clock, and the strategic use of incentives and disincentives to enforce US law on Mideast so that Arabs behave exactly how the CIA wants them.

 

 

 

Nuclear double-speak and double standards being adopted by US led nuclear terrocracies have harmed the denuclearization process. The reality is that Iran and North Korea are probably the most difficult puzzle in the international system today. There are no happy endings or comprehensive solutions unless all nuclear powers decide to dismantle nukes and freeze systems.. And president Obama, who has publicly vowed not to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, while refuses to fix the Israeli illegal nukes faces the ironies abound.

 

US military establishment and manufacturers of terror equipment for Pentagon are pushing for  permanent wars. A military strike could make Obama look strong, but there are those pesky, unpredictable repercussions, including plunging financial markets, skyrocketing oil prices, and escalating regional tensions.

 

Obama, White House and neocon nuts must now begin to work with the West toward a more stable Middle East.

 

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د. عبد راف

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Policy of Turkey: Israeli apology to Turkey

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Foreign Policy of Turkey: Israeli apology to Turkey

-DR. ABDUL RUFF

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A noted fascist democracy, Israel refuses to let the Palestinians live in Palestine even after the UN approved its statehood defacto.

President Obama has proven no less arrogant than his predecessor Bush Jr.

Perhaps, fascist Israel enjoying US escort for its crimes across the globe,  never had expected that its attack on Turkish aidship Mavi Marmara going to Gaza strip in 2010, killing of nine Turkish citizens, peace activists, onboard the ship would badly shatter its ties with Turkey.

Turkey has been eager to free Gaza strip from Zionist terror blockades. The Mavi Marmara, part of a flotilla carrying more than 600 passengers from 35 countries to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestine, was intercepted by Israeli soldiers on May 31, 2010, resulting in the killing of nine peace activists. One of those killed, 19-year old Furkan Dogan, was also a United States citizen.

However, even  then Americans did not raise the issue on the UNSC because their spoiled terror children from Israel have committed the crimes. On the contrary, America shamelessly used their veto to protect Israeli criminals.

Turkey sought open apology from fascist Israel for its attack on aidship. Since Israel unlawfully intercepted the ship in international waters and later refused to apologize for the killings, Turkey froze bilateral diplomatic relations, recalled its ambassador, and expelled the Israeli ambassador in Ankara.

Backed by CIA-Pentagon duo, Israel however boldly refused to apologise to Turkey as demanded by Istanbul for so long thinking that USA would pressure Turkey to forget about the incident and resume the tires without formal apologies.

Together with Turkey’s criticism of illegal settlement activities and the siege of Gaza, the incident drove Turkish-Israeli relations to their lowest level in many years.

Separation of Turkey from Israel caused deepening isolation for Zionism in the wake of the Arab revolutions. Israel pressured USA and EU to bring back Turkey into Israeli orbit.  Several attempts to resolve the crisis in bilateral relations failed. Israel offered “regrets,” rather than a formal apology, and agreed to pay reparations, but refused to lift the Gaza siege. Turkey’s government has been under intense pressure from the US and Europe to restore normal relations with Israel. Turkey put forward three conditions: a formal apology, reparations for the families of those killed and the lifting of the siege of Gaza.

Turkey’s principled position has now paid off. The apology comes with an agreement to pay compensation to the families and a promise to lift the blockade of Gaza for civilian goods. Israel has taken some steps recently, although much more work remains to be done in order to ease Palestinians’ daily plight.

After nearly three years of political tension, aggressive diplomatic manoeuvring, and back-channel negotiations, Israel has formally apologized to Turkey for the attacking Mavi Marmara and killing Turkish citizens onboard in 2010. But now Israel has realized the cost it pays for antagonizing a military ally Turkey that used to buy its terror equipment, and is eager to reset Turkish ties. An apology costs nothing and hence the apology.

On behalf of the Turkish people, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted Israel’s apology. This is a major Turkish victory for a principled foreign policy pursued through smart diplomacy. By accepting the Israeli apology, Erdogan has affirmed that his criticisms are directed at Israeli policies, not at the existence of Israel or the Jewish people. He is a strong supporter of a two-state solution for both Jews and Palestinians, and is the first Muslim leader to wrongly call anti-Semitism a crime against humanity.

Turkey, while recognizing the state of Israel, supports Palestinians’ aspiration for independence, security, and dignity, and holds that this is vital for peace and stability in the Middle East more broadly.

US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and their team played a crucial role in brokering the apology and it is considered, for which they deserve credit. This was an important victory for USA as well since Turkey and Israel are its key allies in the Middle East.

No apology will bring back the victims. Public anger in Turkey over the killing of fellow citizens in international waters will not dissipate easily. Beyond that, the obstacles to full normalization of bilateral ties include the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, the moribund peace process, and the dimming prospects for an independent and viable Palestinian state, based on the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Given its deepening isolation in the wake of the Arab revolutions, apology was a timely move for Israel. However, Israel’s apology has the potential to open a new chapter in Turkish-Israeli relations, new opportunities for the Middle East peace process provided Israel is interested in it and Western powers promote that.

Given Zionist criminal records, however, it will take time to reset Turkish-Israeli relations.  The resetting of Turkish-Israeli relations would be meaningless if it is only to help Israel attack besieged Palestinians more authoritatively. This is important to build on this Israeli-USA diplomatic momentum to make the region tension free.

Apart from working to improve bilateral relations, Turkey would continue to support the Palestinian people and all efforts to find a just, viable, and comprehensive resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict — a goal that, once achieved, will benefit all countries in the Middle East.

Obama must now pursue Palestine centred foreign policy.  Instead of behaving like super rogue hampering peace process, USA must speed up the process of creation of an independent Palestine state.

Britain opposes US-Israeli fake alarms about Iran nukes!

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Britain opposes US-Israeli fake alarms about Iran nukes! 

 

– DR. ABDUL RUFF

 

[Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, Chancellor-Founder of Centor for International Affairs(CIA); Specialist on State Terrorism ; Global columnist, Commentator  on world affairs , Expert on Mideast Affairs, Analyst on  sport fixings , Chronicler of Foreign occupations & Freedom movements (Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Chechnya, etc.) Former university Teacher; website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com/mail: abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com]

 

 

 

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 US President Obama’s silence over Israeli arrogance even after the UN vote for Palestine is generating suspicion globally about US intentions in Mideast.

 

 

 

Undoubtedly, Israel, being propelled by Americans and their allies,  remains the deadliest and most devastating threat to global security and world peace.  For the first time since Britain along with dictatorial USA hoisted this fascist flag in Mideast on Palestine lands, Britain has come out openly criticizing increasingly growing Zionist terror operations in Palestine.  

 

As a turning point in its diplomacy, United Kingdom refused to vote with USA-Israel terror twins on UN vote for Palestine statehood and preferred to abstain from voting by following the most European nations.  

 

It’s widely believed that Israel has more than a hundred nuclear weapons in its arsenal, although neither Israel nor the US officially acknowledges this publicly.

 

The British regime also has taken an opposite view of US-Israel approach on the Iran’s nuclear test. Operating as a US partner in crimes against humanity,  IAEA pursues the American method of double-standards in dealing with Iran’s legitimate, strive for nukes at par with other nuke states, though against humanity. While refusing to act against Israeli nukes obtained illegally like the territories, the globe’s chief nuclear watchdog’s aggressive investigation into Iranian nuclear enrichment program, which detractors vociferously claim Tehran is undertaking in pursuit of possessing an atom bomb, if not already possessing one.

 

The IAEA functioning like a branch of CIA has been probing intensely into Iran’s nuclear enrichment activity, which both US and Israel have been claiming is being undertaken in pursuit of a nuclear weapon while Iran has been asserting is for peaceful purposes only.

 

Even as Tehran has demanded a probe into Israeli nukes, Israel targets Palestine and Iran simultaneously. The assassinations allegedly carried out by Israelis against Iranian nuclear scientists have hurt the Iranian regime as much as scientific community at large.

 

The Cryptome website from an Iranian group has revealed what the Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said way back that Iran is a already a nuclear power. “Israel owns a practical nuclear arsenal, tied to a growing military body and it is not a member of international respected nuclear, biochemical and chemical agreements…We ask these individuals to sign a petition demanding an open IAEA investigation into activities at Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center located near the southern city of Dimona.”

 

 

 

 

 

The crippling punitive sanction, known as economic terrorism,  imposed by the United States and European allies is hitting people and Iran’s economy adversely. As it is the crippling sanctions imposed by US and its allies in Europe is having its adverse impact on the Iranian economy. The oil embargo put by European Union is costing Iran billions of dollars in lost sales. Even the value of its currency, the Rial, has dropped drastically against the US dollar.

 

 

 

The Iran group has also accused Tel Aviv of promoting terrorism and espionage alleging in the website message that Israel has “a history of attacking U.S. properties, Arab countries and assassination episodes of all stripes.” An IAEA spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that the organization is “not giving any on-record comment on this right now.” Neither did the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE) respond to Iran’s request. American intelligence agencies do not believe that the Islamic Republic has positively decided on building an atom bomb.

 

 

 

USA-Israel terror twins claiming to the embodiment of international law to attack Muslim nations and other opponents can stealthily plot and carry out any insane action on their own against not just Iran or Iranian regime’s goals, but entire Islamic world and even world at large. .

 

 

 

It is going to be real tough for the Iranian regime or Islamic world to counter these anti-Islamic US and Israel elements as they are beyond the control of the Iranian government or highly terrorized Islamic world. Already the attacked Muslim nations like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya finding it extremely difficult to neutralize the damage they caused as the resources at US-Israeli command are huge and cannot be matched by any force. .

 

 

 

What could be seen as sure bolster for the beleaguered Iranian government reeling under world sanctions for its alleged nuclear ambitions, Britain has taken the view that any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could contravene international laws and hence it would not allow its bases to be used for such roguish activities. For attacking Iranian nuclear plants, US would require UK’s permission to use the latter’s RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus as its own army facilities on the British territories of Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The US, reportedly, asked for access to these airbases strategically situated on the remote islands. Israel expects USA to depend on its aircraft carriers and its well-set military facilities in the Gulf region for attack on Iran.

 

 

 

 

 

The UK government’s stand that Iran is currently not close to the legal threshold to pose a “clear and present danger” that would warrant a pre-emptive strike on it. London cautions that any pre-emptive military strike on Iran would be a violation of law and hence deemed illegal. But apart from the use of its bases, there is also staunch opposition in UK with regard to working alongside the United States.

 

 

 

So long manipulating the political divide in UK, the USA had expected resistance from senior liberal Democrats, but is stunned that it is Tories too. People now see that Tony Blair had blindly collaborated, planned and carried out an inconclusive almost permanent warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq hand-in-glove with then extremist US President George W. Bush. There was massive uproar and political backlash in UK over the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent elimination of President Saddam Hussein mainly for his pan-Arabism but officially for his alleged compilation of nuclear weapons, which in the end proved to be a damp squib. It also resulted in a two-year long intense official probe in UK which culminated in an unprecedented act of T. Blair being summoned to face a scathing public inquiry.

 

 

 

 Britons now even hate Americans for their secret agendas and putting entire world under risk. The underlying truth is there is strong public opposition within UK itself against joining forces or collaborating with US on any more military adventures around the world.

 

 

 

The UK believes there is “still an opportunity for a negotiated solution” to the imbroglio over Iran’s nuclear ambitions Britain believes that no US-Israel war threat presently exists in violation of international law. Britain is perhaps looking forward to a peaceful resolution to both the genuine Palestine state cause and concocted Iran-Israel imbroglio seeking to spiral into a major confrontation to derail the UN clearance for a free and independent Palestine.  

 

 

 

 

 

UK should seek a probe  on Israeli nukes and give up the dual approach of inhuman sanctions plus diplomacy and instead adopt only diplomacy since Iran is not the only lone possessor of nuclear facility in the world. Meanwhile, UK can try and get Iran and Israel to the negotiating table and thrash out this matter, they will be doing a yeoman service to the world. That alone could yield better results.

 

 

 

British strategists do think positive engagement with Iran is the best way to resolve the nuclear issue.

 

 

 

 

 

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د. عبد راف 

 

 

 

Global media today, even in Muslim nations, are controlled by CIA  & other anti-Islamic agencies.Terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces.Regimes often resort to  state terrorism. Anti-Muslimism and anti-Islamism are more dangerous than “terrorism” Fake democracies like USA, Israel and India have zero-tolerance to any criticism of their anti-Muslim and other aggressive practices. Anti-Islamic forces & terrorists are using criminal elements for terrorizing the world and they in disguise are harming genuine interests of ordinary Muslims.