Posted by seumasach on August 1, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
31st July, 2009
Like the star gazers who last week watched the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, diplomatic observers had a field day watching the penumbra of big power politics involving the United States, Russia and China, which constitutes one of the crucial phenomena of 21st-century world politics.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009
A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland
Justin Raimundo
24th July, 2009
An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.
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Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2009
Rosa Luxemburg still saying: Peace means the worldwide revolution of the proletariat!
This article is significant not for its bombast, but for many things , mostly because this is the first academic leftist writer to declare that Colony Collapse Disorder is a result of electrosmog. He is wrong to suggest it is merely a US phenomenon as it is world wide in its range. Japan for instance lost 50% of their bees this year.
VHeadline commentarist, University of Los Andes (ULA) political sciences professor, Dr. Franz J. T. Lee writes:
Sunday 19th July
For those whom the bell is already tolling now in America, it is time to be tactfully and diplomatically crystal clear about the formal logical “contradiction”: violence and peace. Since the military coup in Honduras and its seemingly diplomatic, ‘peaceful’ aftermath, we should be fore-warned of things to come under the Barak Obama ‘Democratic’ administration.
Beyond any doubt, whether we realize it or not, we are currently facing the fleeting moments of emancipatory truth, of fierce coming class struggles, that is, we are living and dying in one of the most virulent and violent epochs of world production, of exploited labor forces, of human history. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2009
Nebojsa Malic
15th July, 2009
At a meeting in March 2009, Secretary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart with a red button that was supposed to read “Reset” in Russian. Instead, it read “Overload.” It seemed like an innocent mistake, a syllable lost in translation. But was it, really?
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
14th July, 2009
Russia will not back tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities in exchange for a new arms cuts deal with the US, a foreign ministry official says.
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Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Arguably, a new element of tension appeared by a conscious strategy by the Obama administration to insert a wedge between Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and create a rift within the Kremlin. To quote noted Russia-watcher Peter Lavelle, “Either Obama believes he has already mastered Russian politics … or he is being given some very bad advice … In Russia today, it is simply impossible to play Medvedev off against Putin. Both represent the same policy approaches, including foreign policies, but in different ways.”
“Biden’s remarks didn’t actually warrant a Russian rebuttal. But Moscow probably decided to put Obama’s hawkish deputy on the mat while the boss was in town to balance to some extent the mischievous briefings given by White House officials, touting a growing US-Russia convergence over Iran, which of course was exaggerated hype.”
So Obama tried to put a wedge between Putin and Medvedev and between Russia and Iran: both failed miserably as anyone with any grasp of Russia diplomacy at all could have predicted. As with the interventions in Iran and Honduras, the old box of tricks is still being used, but they just don’t work anymore.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th July, 2009
The Cold War may or may not be lurking in the shade, but the mystique of Russian-American summitry lingers. In an event packed with animated passions in the run-up to it, and loaded with history, as the summit in Moscow on July 6-7 indeed was, what ultimately matters is the morning after.
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Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2009
The meaning of Biden’s sabre-rattling now becomes clear: it’s part of a fiendishly clever scheme to put a wedge between Russia and Iran. It’s becoming an amusing spectator sport watching the cretinous US leadership trying to cope with the reality of their ebbing power.
8th July, 2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the recent remarks by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said Israel has the right to attack Iran, have surprised Moscow.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2009
“If Putin has “one foot in the new,” he is ahead of Obama who has both feet in the past.”
Paul Craig Roberts
2nd July, 2009
As Americans celebrate July 4th, they can contemplate that the union of “free and independent states,” like the former British colonial power, has evolved into its final manifestation–a complete whore house. While Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with every personal expenditure, including the rental of adult xxx-rated films, an American newspaper put the reporting of public policy out to bids until politico.com blew the whistle.
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Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
4th July, 2009
In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run-up to the arrival of US President Barack Obama in Moscow on Monday underscores the complexities of the context in which the two countries are going through at the summit.
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Posted by smeddum on July 1, 2009
Havana. June 29, 2009
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL
A suicidal error
(Taken from CubaDebate )
IN my reflection written last Thursday night, June 25, I said: “We do not know what will happen tonight or tomorrow in Honduras, but the brave conduct of Zelaya will go down in history.” Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 