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USA : des ventes d’armes à Ryad et l’envoi de 1500 soldats au Moyen-Orient (RTBF)
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/international/16061-usa-des-ventes-d-armes-a-ryad-et-l-envoi-de-1500-soldats-au-moyen-o

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Le gouvernement a "invoqué une obscure disposition" pour passer outre l’avis du Congrès a déploré Bob Menendez,

numéro deux de la commission des Affaires étrangères du Sénat. - (c) Zach Gibson - AFP

L’administration américaine de Donald Trump a "formellement informé le Congrès" de nouvelles ventes d’armes à l’Arabie saoudite et aux Emirats arabes unis en contournant la possibilité dont disposent normalement les parlementaires de bloquer ce type de contrat, a annoncé vendredi un sénateur démocrate.

Le gouvernement a "invoqué une obscure disposition" législative sur les exportations de (...)

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No, Sanctions Didn’t Force Iran to Make a Deal
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/14/sanctions_did_not_force_iran_to_make_a_deal_nuclear_enrichment

That myth — promoted by officials in President Barack Obama’s administration as well as powerful lawmakers like Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) — is that crippling sanctions brought the Iranian regime to its knees, forcing it to rush to the negotiating table to beg for mercy. In this narrative, the breakthrough in nuclear talks is credited to the Obama administration’s unprecedented economic pressure, which has essentially locked Iran out of the international financial system. And like JFK before him, Obama did not compromise with Iran. The mythical gold standard was met.
Except it wasn’t.

Who Makes US Foreign Policy ? - Lawrence Wilkerson On Reality Asserts Itself (1/3)
▻http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11839

... it’s incredibly complex, difficult to analyze from a strictly governmental standpoint, but when you start probing and you start analyzing, you begin to discover that there are centers in this mess (...) that are getting what they want. And what they want is basically wealth and power. And they then turn that wealth and power back into political contributions, which now almost have no limits, no constraints on them, and they influence people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bob Menendez as and Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank when he was in there and so influential with the banking committee, and they get what they want in terms of legislation that oftentimes I’m convinced the legislatures do not even realize they’re doing. They don’t understand that they’re fulfilling this objective of a particular oligarch or conglomeration of oligarchs. And yet they’re doing it. And they’re doing it because they are well paid for doing it, in the sense that their PACs are flush and full and they get reelected.

Is John McCain motivated entirely by this? Is Bob Menendez motivated entirely by this? Of course not. They’re not intellectual giants, and they don’t spend lots of time analyzing this situation in the complex ways that we do. So they think they’re actually fulfilling their principles and bending over a little bit to accept the money and the cash necessary to do that. So that’s how the system works. That’s not even half the explanation, but that’s how the system works. And, incidentally, it has worked that way for a very long time, I would say probably since about Andrew Jackson coming into the White House after we’d really established ourselves.