Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
29th June, 2011
Trade was the focus of the meeting of German and Chinese leaders in Berlin this week, with German companies eager to get a piece of the massive Chinese market. But commentators warn of the dangers of becoming too dependent on the emerging Asian superpower.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
As NATO disintegrates it will continue to pledge itself, as in Afghanistan, to finishing the job, whatever that is.
Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admits arming rebels
Yahoo
29th June, 2011
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Dutch defence minister warned NATO allies on Wednesday against “mission creep” in Libya and forecast heated debate in the military alliance about the future of its campaign if it was not over by the end of September.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admits arming rebels
29th June, 2011
Nato was today urgently reviewing the conduct of its military campaign inLibya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
29th June, 2011
As the Libyan bombing campaign entered the 100th day, NATO announced its imminent success. However, since the aims of the war were never clearly defined, it is difficult to know what is meant by success. Simultaneously, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the Libyan regime’s intelligence chief Abjullah al-Sanoussi for “crimes against humanity.”
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
29th June, 2011
China and Germany have signed trade deals estimated to be worth 10.6 billion euros ($15 billion), following joint government consultations earlier this week.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
England soar to fourth place, ahead of Brazil
29th June, 2011
England are officially a better team than Brazil, according to the latestFifa world rankings.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?
Franklin Lamb
28th June, 2011
Gaddafi has survived assaults of various types from US Presidents’ Ford, Carter, Reagan, George Bush 1, Clinton, George Bush 2, and Obama. Vegas book makers are giving odds he’ll be the leader of Libya’s Fatah Revolution after the voters retire Obama, whose broken promises included telling them that the US would be involved in Libya for days, not months.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
As Britain implodes we are subjected to an endless barrage of media babble about the collapse of the Euro. We would do well to focus on our own problems which promise to dwarf anything happening across the channel. Predictably we have also decided to bomb our way out of trouble not having yet come to the realization that it’s time to start rebuilding our own country rather than destroying other peoples’.
28th June, 2011
More than 10,000 retail jobs face the axe as the British high street faces one of its most painful bouts of contraction since the second world war amid the biggest squeeze on household budgets for decades.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
29th June, 2011
The Center for Research on Globalization says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011
William Bowles
29th April, 2011
Facts are wonderful things, ignore them at all cost
The BBC which makes much of its ‘objective’ and ‘balanced’ news coverage, when challenged by the facts of its biased coverage of events in the Middle East and elsewhere, cites examples of where it has given voice to all sides of the issue. This is debatable, but let’s assume that the BBC does present all sides then it really comes down to numbers as the following example of the vast disparity, not only in numbers but also in content, between its Syria/Libya and Bahrain coverage.
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In These New Times 