Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2015
Pepe Escobar
20th June, 2015
The dogs of western fear and sanctions bark, while the Eurasian caravan passes.
And no caravanserai could possibly compete with the 19th edition of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Thousands of global business leaders – including Europeans, but not Americans; after all, President Putin is “the new Hitler” – representing over 1,000 international companies/corporations, including the CEOs of BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Total, hit town in style.
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Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2015
Asked whether Russia saw its economic future more closely bound into a China-led grouping, he added: “We are not creating a bloc-based approach. We are trying to create a global approach.”
Greek prime minister reaches out to Vladimir Putin for help in financial crisis
19th June, 2015
Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has made a broad overture to Russia as he seeks a way out of his country’s debt and currency impasse, telling Vladimir Putin that Greece wants new partners to help it out of the crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2015
19th June, 2015
The vicious circle of Western sanctions against Russia must be stopped, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2015
Looking out to 2020: the return of European wars ?
15th June, 2015
In the face of some rather worrying indicators in recent months, we have got to the point of asking ourselves the question of the likelihood of a return of European wars looking out to 2020. Actually, it’s not because our team continues to see the crisis’ exit tracks falling into place, that it doesn’t keep watch over the remaining obstacles on the path to these exits; obstacles which to us seem to be of two kinds essentially :
. first, the efforts of the world before’s masters to keep control, anachronistic conflicts and rooted in the past, caused by increasingly isolated, but also increasingly aggressive powers, amongst whose number there remains especially, but not only, the US military ;
. second, what are the « natural » sparks, likely to give birth to enormous friction between tectonic plates, the best image evoking the geopolitical rebalancing underway.
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2015
10th June, 2015
MILAN, June 10. /TASS/. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said that even at the current no easy moment in world affairs Russia and Italy stand side by side in addressing global problems.
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Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2015
8th May, 2015
The blame game has long since begun in the German capital, as have efforts to determine who knew what and when and who misled which supervisory authority and when. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has become entangled in inconsistencies. Chancellery head Peter Altmaier and several of his predecessors are under fire.
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2015
It is hard to see what Kerry expects to achieve from this other than another own goal. At it’s height the US empire didn’t threaten, they acted- everyone who mattered knew why. Now they are highlighting division and almost encouraging the breaking of ranks.
30th April, 2015
John Kerry admitted the EU and the US have disagreements by issuing a warning and letting them know that if Europe doesn’t keep the sanctions against Russia “there is going to be something to pay,” Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Peace Institute told RT.
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2015
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has said that “Italy can’t afford to close the doors to Russia” and “can’t cut ties” with Moscow. His statements come just days after Italian officials postulated that the sanctions against Russia may be lifted.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2015
18th April, 2015
Russia is planning to pay Greece large a multibillion advance against future profits from operating a gas pipeline that would pump Russian fuel through Turkey and Greece to the rest of Southern Europe, German magazine Spiegel reported.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2015
“Step by step we do everything possible to create a common economic area – as Russian President Vladimir Putin once said – from Vladivostok to Lisbon,” she said.
18th April, 2015
The German chancellor said Germany is interested in economic cooperation with Russia, despite the current political differences between the two countries.
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Posted by seumasach on April 12, 2015
Andrew Korybko
9th April, 2015
While the Greek Prime Minister may not have received the fabled bail-out that the Western media had anxiously speculated about, he looks to have secured benefits that are far more long-term and tangible.
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