Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
17th June, 2011
Thousands of Bahraini anti-government protesters have poured into the streets in the island city of Sitra, following a call by the country’s largest opposition group al-Wefaq.
The Friday rally was the second mass anti-government demonstration organized by al-Wefaq since the heavy mid-March government crackdown on protesters.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th June, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) marked its 10th anniversary at the summit meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. Anniversaries divisible by five or 10 are almost sacrosanct occasions in international politics – especially for Central Asian countries and the adjacent capitals of Moscow and Beijing that have been weaned on the formalism of Marxism-Leninism. Much expectation was placed on the occasion at Astana.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
Gamal Nkrumah
9-15th June, 2011
Day after day, the night sky is shattered by the blinding flash of NATO firepower in the playing out of a surreal drama scripted in hell. Hundreds of innocent civilians ripped apart by NATO’s attack helicopters, so-called Apaches, in yet another defilement of First Nation peoples. It’s almost like they hope Libyans would just disappear as did the Native Americans.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
Alexander Cockburn
16th June, 2011
The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed this past March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO’s eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press coverage, it has rapidly mutated into an overt bid to destroy Qaddafi’s regime, specifically to murder Qaddafi, by missile or bombardment, with land-based teams of Special Force assassins doubtless deployed in the desert, assigned the same task.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
Learning to Walk Again
Eric Walberg
16th June, 2011
Turkey’s vibrant democracy is an inspiration to Arab countries throwing off their autocratic yoke and their Western patrons, says Eric Walberg Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) renewed mandate puts the electoral seal of approval on its shift towards the Middle East, even as its importance to Europe increases. Now Turkey itself is being courted by both NATO countries and, increasingly, the Arab world.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) called on Wednesday for a cease-fire in Libya, and urged all sides to strictly abide by UN Security Council resolutions.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
16th June, 2011
Addressing the SCO summit on its 10th anniversary in the capital of Kazakhstan, President Zardari said Pakistan would work with the member states of the SCO to maintain regional peace, spread shared prosperity and defeat terrorism. “Pakistan looks forward to working together with SCO countries for achieving shared prosperity and peace,” he said, adding that Pakistan had rendered great sacrifices in the fight against terrorism and militancy, which posed a common threat to the region.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
16th June, 2011
The unsolved territorial problem between India and Pakistan is the main barrier to their accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a source from the Russian delegation told Interfax here Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
16th June, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is capable of offering the world a new reserve currency, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
15th June, 2011
Russia won the backing of China and other members of a regional security body in criticizing US plans for a missile shield, saying on Wednesday that it could undermine global security.
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