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Russia and China challenge NATO

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

10th May, 2011

Consultations by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Moscow at the weekend were expected to prepare the ground for the visit by President Hu Jintao to Russia next month. In the event, however, they assumed a character of immense significance to international security.

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Attacks on Libya condemned

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011

Milli Gazette

8th May, 2011

New Delhi: NATO attacks led by America and France on Libya have been widely condemned here in India. On March 22, Lok Sabha members, cutting across party lines, unanimously condemned the US-led coalition air strikes on Libya. MPs from all parties, BJP, BSP, CPI, Muslim League, BJD, Trinamul Congress, N.C, CPIM, NDA observed that NATO has no right to devastate any country. What is happening in Libya is an internal matter of that country and no external power should interfere in it, the MPs unanimously said. However, they expressed their support to democratic forces struggling against the authoritarian regimes. “We are against any military intervention to enforce regime change,” they observed.

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Gaddafi gold-for-oil, dollar-doom plans behind Libya ‘mission’?

Posted by seumasach on May 7, 2011

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Putin says ‘dumbfounded’ over NATO operation in Libya

Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2011

Deccan Herald

28th April, 2011

In reply to a dish journalist, Putin, who is currently on a visit in Stockholm, said “this happens despite human rights and humanity concerns which the civilised world is believed to advocate,” apparently referring to reports about NATO planes bombing civilian objects in Libya, RIA Novosti reported.

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Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

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Lies about the war on Libya

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

20th April, 2011

While Thierry Meyssan supports the Libyan insurrection against the Muammar Gaddafi regime, he doesn’t approve of Resolution 1973 and is opposed to the war. In previous articles, he pointed to the imperialist objectives behind this operation. In this essay, he exposes the main lies of Atlanticist propaganda.

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Confiscating Libya’s sovereign wealth funds

Posted by seumasach on April 25, 2011

Manlio Dinucci

Global Research

24th April, 2011

The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. In the crosshairs of “willing” of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad.

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Libya death toll climbs as UN tells NATO to stick to no-fly zone plan

Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2011

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Obama White House, Pentagon at odds over Libya policy

Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2011

Huffington Post

20th April, 2011

WASHINGTON — After 26 months in office, President Obama still has not forged a smoothly working national security team that can both nimbly pounce on military crises and deftly manage festering problems, say current and former U.S. officials.

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France’s 3 wars: are ‘victories’ worth the victims?

Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2011

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Unite: Call an immediate halt to military intervention

Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2011

Politics.co.uk

4th April, 2011

Unite statement on Libya: Call an immediate halt to military intervention, press for a ceasefire.

Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, has today called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the air attacks on Libya.

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