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Posted by seumasach on May 17, 2011
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
who rules the World-Island controls the world.”
Just in case any of us thought the empire was giving up, here they are pushing again towards Mackinder’s dream of global domination. Empire’s don’t give up, they collapse- we face a very rocky ride ahead.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
18th May, 2011
The Black Sea is about to lose its historical exclusivity as a Russian-Turkish preserve. A visit by the USA-TRANSCOM commander General Duncan McNabb to Bucharest has sealed the fate of the Black Sea as the latest entry into the chronicles of the “new great game”.
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Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
“In sum, Russia trusts the need for a “reset” in ties with NATO, but is under compulsion to “verify” its sincerity. As Lavrov put it, “serious questions arise” out of the contradictory tendencies in NATO’s posturing toward Russia. Moscow decided to keep the CSTO as an effective counter-alliance – just in case McCain’s school of thinking gains ground in Washington.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
14th December, 2010
Many people wouldn’t know that former United States president Ronald Reagan’s signature phrase “trust, but verify” is actually the translation of a Russian proverb – doveryai, no proveryai. Two decades into the post-Cold War era, Moscow wants to reclaim the self-contradictory phrase from the American repertoire and apply it to Russia’s “reset” of ties with the United States.
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Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
People’s Daily
27th October, 2010
Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming expressed his concern over the unfavorable environment for China’s foreign trade, particularly the excessive minting of U.S. dollars and the soaring commodity prices on the world market.
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Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
F.William Engdahl
Voltairenet
23rd October, 2010
With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China’s economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure strategy of Washington against China.
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Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2010
U.S. urged to have its own house “clean-up” first
October 21, 2010
Peoples Daily
“The dollar is ours but the problem is yours,” said the former US Treasury Secretary John Connelly in the 70s of the 20th century, which became a popular dictum spreading far and wide. To date, not only Europe and many countries on earth have in fact felt the pain of the plunging dollar. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2010
PressTV
30th August, 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has blamed the West for resorting to deceitful political measures to thwart the resetting of Moscow-Washington ties.
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Posted by smeddum on July 23, 2010
July 21, 2010
WhatsLeft
By Stephen Gowans
The United States has announced that it is adding a new tranche to the Himalaya of sanctions it has built up since 1950 against North Korea, sanctions I outlined in my last article Amnesty International botches blame for North Korea’s crumbling healthcare. Calling the new sanctions “measures” – perhaps to escape the disfavor the word has fallen into after sanctions wiped out the lives of half of million Iraqi children in the 1990s — US secretary of state Hillary Clinton purred reassuringly that the new “measures are not directed at the people of North Korea.” [1] She didn’t predict, however, whether they would add to the misery the previous umpteenth round of sanctions has already visited upon the lives of North Koreans, even if she says they aren’t directed at them, but we can be pretty sure they will. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2010
By F. William Engdahl
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 12, 2010, 00:21 |
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In the postwar history of the Federal Republic, German chancellors tend to disappear once they pursue political goals that deviate from the Washington global agenda too much.
In the case of Gerhard Schroeder, it involved two unforgiveable “sins.” The first was his open opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The second, far more serious strategically, was his negotiations with Russia’s Putin to bring a major new natural gas pipeline directly from Russia, bypassing then-hostile Poland, to Germany. Today the first section of that Nord Stream gas pipeline has reached the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern coastal town of Lubmin on the Baltic Sea, making Lubmin into a geopolitical pivot for Europe and Russia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2010
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
26th June, 2010
If the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan were to be the litmus test, the United States’ “reset” of ties with Russia appears only selectively genuine. Kyrgyzstan is a perfect case for the two powers to agree to tactical cooperation, as there are significant common interests – and yet that is not happening.
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