Mediaboss Marketing

Hillary I Am Woman, Iran Deal, Shaming Healthy Eating, Science and more #TMS LIVE 4/11/2015
TMS LIVE is a Libertarian news and entertainment show done every Saturday by the guys at http://www.themediaspeaks.com. Today we discuss Hillary Clinton entering the 2016 Presidential Race, America #39;s ...

By: TheMediaSpeaksdotCom

Read the original:
Hillary I Am Woman, Iran Deal, Shaming Healthy Eating, Science and more #TMS LIVE 4/11/2015 - Video

Secretary of State John Kerry defended the framework deal to curb Iran's nuclear program Sunday, saying America's allies have backed up U.S. accounts of what the deal holds despite an ongoing war of words with Iran's supreme leader.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week that there won't be a nuclear deal unless all sanctions are lifted, and there will be no inspection of military sites as part of the deal. That prompted Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, to question Kerry's account of the deal he has been describing to the American public.

"John Kerry must have known what was in it, and yet chose to interpret it in another way. It's probably in black and white that the ayatollah is probably right. John Kerry is delusional," McCain said on a radio talk show.

President Obama said Saturday that McCain's comments are "an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries."

Asked about McCain's comments on CBS' "Face the Nation," Sunday, Kerry pointed to other U.S. negotiating partners who can back up his account of the deal.

"I'll let the facts speak for themselves. Yesterday the Russians -- who are not our usual allies -- released a statement saying that what we have put out in terms of our information is both reliable and accurate," Kerry said. "I would remind you that people have the same dueling narratives, discrepancies, spin - whatever you want to call it - with respect to the interim agreement. But in the end, an interim agreement came out exactly as we had described and what's important is Iran has not only signed it but has lived up to it in every respect."

Kerry said he will be briefing Congress in depth about the deal Monday and Tuesday. He also reiterated that the framework deal does not represent a final agreement, which will be completed after another two and a half months of negotiations.

"This an outline, parameters, and most people are very surprised by the depth and breadth and detail of these parameters and went well beyond what they expected," Kerry said. "I think people need to hold their fire, let us negotiate without interference and be able to complete the job over the course of the next two and a half months."

"We've earned the right to be able to try and complete this without interference and certainly without partisan politics," he added.

He also addressed critics of the deal, saying that the scientific community, as well as Russia, China, Germany, France, Great Britain and experts in all of those countries, believe the deal shuts down Iran's pathway to a bomb.

Read more:
Iran nuclear negotiations: Who's telling the truth?

top gear iraq

By: dilara kam

Follow this link:
top gear iraq - Video

Baghdads Shiite-run government has begun its second major counteroffensive against the Islamic State, this time choosing western Anbar province, where the U.S. Marine Corps years ago showed that the path to victory requires an alliance with Sunni tribal chiefs.

The governments just-completed retaking of the city of Tikrit was carried out principally by Iranian-led and -equipped Iraqi Shiite militiamen. In Anbar, Sunni sheiks have made it clear that they do not want Iranian operators or proxies on their territory.

It falls on the beleaguered Iraqi army to dust off and follow a playbook for defeating terrorists there. The Marine Corps in the mid-2000s wooed and organized Sunni tribal fighters to take on and expel al Qaeda insurgents. The battle plan became a template for an Iraq-wide campaign known as the U.S. troop surge and Sunni Awakening.

Al Qaeda-inspired terrorists returned and captured much of Anbar in January 2014. This time, they showed up under a different name, the Islamic State, and a new leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi cleric who got his start as a vicious terrorist in Anbars city of Fallujah in 2004.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who meets in Washington this week with President Obama, ordered the counteroffensive Wednesday. He immediately traveled to an air base in Anbar and was photographed handing out rifles to local fighters whose leaders have long complained that Baghdad refuses to ship the equipment they need.

Kenneth Pollack, a Middle East analyst at the Brookings Institution, said American advisers had been arguing to go into Anbar before Tikrit Saddam Husseins old neighborhood because Sunni opposition to Shiite rule remains deep-seated.

Its a good way to take smaller bites, use them to blood the army, work out any problems and use the time to work out better arrangements with the Sunnis before going after the daunting challenge of Mosul, Mr. Pollack said, mentioning Iraqs second-largest city, now under Islamic State rule. I think it is very smart. And Abadi will hopefully get a bunch of wins under his belt that will create a sense of momentum going his way.

Mr. al-Abadi said Tikrit is now in government hands. But the victory remains uneven, with reports of Shiite-on-Sunni atrocities, looting and burnings.

The Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, typically launches suicide bombing attacks on cities it does not control, such as Baghdad. It also has shown that it can dispatch its fighters on other objectives, such as smaller towns or oil refineries, to keep the U.S.-led coalition off balance.

But it is clear that Mr. al-Abadi is a wartime prime minister who plans to take the fight to the terrorists as often as possible.

Here is the original post:
Iraq may follow U.S. Marines' blueprint to defeat Islamic State in Anbar

The visit of Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar Abadi to Washington this week will test whether the White House has any Mideast strategy beyond a nuclear deal with Iran.

Even administration optimists have revised naive hopes that an accord would stabilize the region.

"We can do two things at the same time," Secretary of State John Kerry told the PBS Newshour, meaning negotiate while standing up to Iranian interference in Yemen. The bigger question is whether the White House has a strategy to offset Iran's drive to dominate its neighbors, a drive that is fueling sectarian war throughout the region.

The test case is Iraq.

Abadi arrives as the war against ISIS is heating up within Iraq, the main battlefield for that struggle. But the Iraqi fight is being undercut by the machinations of Iran.

Our ill-planned Iraq war - and the heedless way President Obama quit Iraq in 2011 - boosted Iran's influence in the region and in Baghdad.

The previous prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, intensified links with Tehran and politicized Iraq's army, which collapsed when ISIS seized a third of the country. Abadi is a far better leader and acts as an Iraqi nationalist rather than a sectarian. He is trying to rebuild the Iraqi army - with U.S. help - but this will be a long process.

In the meantime, Shiite militias, some closely allied with Iran, have led the fight to liberate areas held by ISIS. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, has publicly let himself be photographed alongside Iraqi Shiite fighting groups.

Yet the occupied areas are populated largely by Sunni civilians, who are fearful of the Shiite militias - and of Tehran. Those areas won't be liberated unless local Sunnis rise up against ISIS.

Go here to read the rest:
Worldview: Iraqi's visit tests whether U.S. has Mideast policy