Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
8th December, 2008
The visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New Delhi last week turned out to be an occasion for the Indian government to fundamentally reassess the strategic significance of the traditional India-Russia partnership. No doubt, the visit took place at a turning point in contemporary history and politics against the backdrop of massive shifts in the international system.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire, global leadership, Multipolar world, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Richard Norton-Taylor, Simon Tisdall and agencies
8th December, 2008
Gunmen from the Pakistani Taliban torched supplies destined for Nato forces in Afghanistan for a second day running today, officials said.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
William F. Engdahl
9th December, 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore the wishes of the United States and delay the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine, in effect indefinitely, in what the George W Bush administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive “compromise”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
WARSAW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) – Some 40 Czech mayors plan to address the European parliament on February 24 to complain against the deployment of a proposed U.S. missile defense radar in the country, a Czech news agency said on Monday.
Posted in Drive to Global War, New Cold War | Tagged: missile defence system | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
7th December, 2008
LONG BEACH, California (Reuters) – From pricey luxury sedans to popular hybrid cars, automobiles made overseas are stacking up at ports and parking lots around the United States as supplies far outstrip demand amid the nation’s worst auto market in more than 25 years.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
India would do well to launch a proper investigation before doing anything rash. At the core of this should be to continue of the work of Karkare and to establish precisely who engineered his death. The Americans seem overeager to find the hand of Pakistan behind this massacre, don’t they? As usual they have undisclosed “evidence” which , as on 9/11, amounts to nothing more than the claim that it was “the bad guys”. In a way, this is probably true : but it would be they themselves who are the bad guys.
7th December, 2008
ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
7th December, 2008
| Russia on Friday pledged to complete a strategic gas pipeline through Serbia by 2015 — despite the global financial crisis — paving the way for its immediate purchase of Serbia’s state energy monopoly.The head of Russia’s oil arm of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said in Belgrade that the Russian energy giant is to buy a 51 percent stake in Serbia’s Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) for an estimated 400 million euros, with the deal expected to be signed by the end of this month. Serbia had said it would only sell the company if Russia committed to building the pipeline. “An agreement was reached today to sign” the package deal to purchase NIS and to build the natural gas pipeline through Serbia, Miller said after his talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic.
The $13 billion pipeline to be laid under the Black Sea would carry Russian natural gas to Bulgaria and Serbia before branching out to points in Western Europe. |
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
“The implications of Ahmed’s involvement – that Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks – added to the list of questions about India’s ill-trained security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the attacks.”
7th December, 2008
SRINAGAR, India–One of the two Indian men arrested for buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said yesterday in demanding his release.
The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first since the bloody siege ended.
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
The gunmen overpowered and disarmed the security guards, before setting fire to the vehicles, many of which were laden with Humvee armoured cars intended for Western forces.
About three quarters of all the ammunition, food, weapons and other supplies needed by Nato’s troops in Afghanistan, including 8,000 British soldiers, pass through Pakistan. The Taliban have clearly identified this route as a crucial vulnerability.
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
Justin Raimondo
5th December, 2008
Is it really possible that President-elect Barack Obama intends to break his campaign promise to “end the war” in Iraq, and keep US troops in that country well beyond the sixteen month timetable for withdrawal he advocated during the campaign?
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: Obama's foreign policy | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
“However EMF also pose direct threats to human health through mechanisms that are poorly understood.”
So there you are then: in certain milieu, where the terrorists in question aren’t O2 or Vodaphone, it’s not even a question for debate.
There is more and more use of electricity and RF communication frequencies in both civilian life and for military purposes. The clarification of cellular and molecular mechanisms of their biological effects is extremely important in order to rationally evaluate their harmful effects from the point of public health. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis, Studies and statements showing mobile phone health risk | Tagged: Add new tag, EM radiation health hazard | 1 Comment »
