Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2011
M.K.Bhdrakumar
14th June, 2011
Seldom it is that the Russian Foreign Ministry chooses a Sunday to issue a formal statement. Evidently, something of extreme gravity arose for Moscow to speak out urgently. The provocation was the appearance of a United States guided missile cruiser in the Black Sea for naval exercises with Ukraine. The USS Monterrey cruiser equipped with the AEGIS air defense system is taking part in joint Ukrainian-US exercises, Sea Breeze 2011.
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2011
12th June, 2011
Russia has protested against the presence of a US Navy cruiser in the Black Sea which is preparing for joint naval exercises with Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
7th June, 2011
There might have been a difference of opinion between the classical Greek dramatist Aeschylus and British romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the circumstances of the release of the Titan god Prometheus from captivity: whether it followed reconciliation with Jupiter, as the classicist thought, or a rebellion, as the romantic insisted. In either case, Prometheus was “unbound”.
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Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th May, 2011
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus.
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Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2011
20th May, 2011
China on Thursday said the international community “must respect” Pakistan’s sovereignty, tacitly confirming reports that it has asked the US not to violate Islamabad’s territorial integrity, following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Posted by seumasach on May 17, 2011
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
who rules the World-Island controls the world.”
Just in case any of us thought the empire was giving up, here they are pushing again towards Mackinder’s dream of global domination. Empire’s don’t give up, they collapse- we face a very rocky ride ahead.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th May, 2011
The Black Sea is about to lose its historical exclusivity as a Russian-Turkish preserve. A visit by the USA-TRANSCOM commander General Duncan McNabb to Bucharest has sealed the fate of the Black Sea as the latest entry into the chronicles of the “new great game”.
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Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
“In sum, Russia trusts the need for a “reset” in ties with NATO, but is under compulsion to “verify” its sincerity. As Lavrov put it, “serious questions arise” out of the contradictory tendencies in NATO’s posturing toward Russia. Moscow decided to keep the CSTO as an effective counter-alliance – just in case McCain’s school of thinking gains ground in Washington.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
14th December, 2010
Many people wouldn’t know that former United States president Ronald Reagan’s signature phrase “trust, but verify” is actually the translation of a Russian proverb - doveryai, no proveryai. Two decades into the post-Cold War era, Moscow wants to reclaim the self-contradictory phrase from the American repertoire and apply it to Russia’s “reset” of ties with the United States.
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Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
27th October, 2010
Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming expressed his concern over the unfavorable environment for China’s foreign trade, particularly the excessive minting of U.S. dollars and the soaring commodity prices on the world market.
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Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
F.William Engdahl
23rd October, 2010
With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China’s economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure strategy of Washington against China.
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