Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2013
18th May, 2013
On 11 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that his country was completing its delivery of surface-to-air missiles to Syria. “Russia is not planning to sell – Russia has sold and signed contracts a long time ago, and is completing supplies of the equipment – which is anti-aircraft systems, according to the already signed contracts,” Lavrov told reporters in Warsaw.
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Posted by seumasach on May 4, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
3rd May, 2013
If Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to deeply disappoint his Chinese hosts for a third time in a row by calling off his visit, he had a very good alibi this time — Israeli foreign ministry is on a labour strike with diplomats fighting for more pay and better working conditions and protesting their department’s ‘downgrading’ by being divested recently of key roles that have been handed to other government institutions. (Such strikes can happen in Israel.)
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Posted by seumasach on April 27, 2013
27th April, 2013
The bombing of the Boston marathon has appeared to whet the appetites of some members of Congress to increase cooperation with post-Soviet governments in taking a strong hand against the threat of Islamist radicals.The House Committee on Foreign Affairs held ahearing on Friday, “Islamist Extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland?” And it provided the opportunity for several members of Congress to tout not just greater security cooperation with Russia vis-a-vis Chechnya, but across the post-Soviet space.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2013
17th April, 2013
President Barack Obama’s failure to send any top officials of his administration to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral Wednesday sparked some heated criticism.
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2013
Bill Mundell
10th April, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
Californian Governor Jerry Brown had the engagement rules straight for his followers: offer your business card with two hands; clap along if others clap; do not present clocks or knives; arrival gifts for your friends and clients are welcome.
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Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
9th April, 2013
The amazing thing about all the discussions about Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is the insistence of so many that Thatcher revived Britain. Yet we are living through the Thatcher legacy now and it looks very much like a nation falling apart: to the spectacle of de-industrialization, which she pioneered, we now have the dismal and depressing sight of the collapse of the high street and the return of begging as a livelihood. What can explain this contradiction?
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
4th April, 2013
For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving down their prices.
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Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd April, 2013
The Russian-American dalliance is one of the most enchanting moments for any longtime observer of the tumultuous relationship. Things can be very misleading unless one goes real slow in making judgments. To be sure, our pundits who see the spectre that is haunting India to be a Sino-Russian alliance and the antidote being anIndian alliance with the US and Japan had better take out their abacus for a quick recount. Great-power politics never runs along straight lines. In fact, the curves are what really matter.
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Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
1st April, 2013
When dotcoms crashed, sub-prime imploded and banks collapsed it was not hard to find the markets’ Cassandras who had spotted the problem and either made millions betting against the bubble or written a book explaining how it was all going to go wrong.
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Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2013
The peace dividend promised at the end of the Cold War has not materialised- it is imperative for humanity that it should do so
Global Day of Action on Military Spending
In 2011, global military spending surged to US $1.74 trillion. Given the numerous crises facing the planet — economic, environmental, health, diplomatic — it is imperative that we create a global movement to shift this money to human needs. We know that there are thousands of organizations and millions of individuals who support this point of view – what is needed is to begin a serious mobilizing effort to make it visible.
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Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2013
“For the Government, these sorts of figures are terrifying, implying some form of additional taxpayer support for either Lloyds Banking Group, or more particularly, the Royal Bank of Scotland, in which it has major stakes.”
23rd March, 2013
Britain’s banks are under-capitalised. Not just by a little bit, but a lot. Under the Bank of England’s worst-case estimate, lenders need to raise something in the order of £60bn, more than three times the amount required to bail out Cyprus, which gives some idea of the scale of the problems officials think the industry faces.
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