Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2012
The fact is, Turkey is very far out on a limb on Syria and, at this point, can only be grateful that the international community has not sawn it off.
Peter Lee
21st April, 2012
With a high-profile visit to China, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his campaign to increase the geopolitical clout of his country.
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Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2012
21st April, 2012
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of interfering in his country’s internal affairs, saying Turkey is becoming a “hostile state” in the region.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2012
Alexander Mazyaev
17th April, 2012
La Mission d’appui des Nations Unies en Libye a présenté les conclusions de son premier rapport. Pour Alexandre Mezyayev, celles-ci trahissent le fait que l’ONU, loin d’encourager la paix comme elle est supposée le faire en accord avec sa Charte, est désormais largement au service de la politique de remodelage du Grand Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord. Alors que la mission d’observation des bérets bleus débute en Syrie, il convient d’être particulièrement attentif à ce que l’organisation et son secrétaire général Ban Ki-moon se remettent au service du droit international et non plus d’intérêts partisans.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2012
15th April, 2012
It gives me great pleasure to study the document which just reached me — ‘Explanation of Vote’ on the United Nations supervision mission for Syria by Ambassador Hardeep Puri at the UN Security Council in New York a little while ago. Before Puri spoke, External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna telephoned UN’s joint special envoy for Syria Kofi Annan to underscore India’s support for his mission.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2012
F.William Engdahl
12th April, 2012
In one of the more bizarre foreign policy announcements of a bizarre Obama Administration, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that Washington will “help” Kosovo to join NATO as well as the European Union. She made the pledge after a recent Washington meeting with Kosovan Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Washington where she praised the progress of the Thaci government in its progress in “European integration and economic development.” 1
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2012
10th April, 2012
Britain and Japan said on Tuesday they have agreed to jointly develop and build defense equipment, the first time since World War Two that Japan has concluded a weapons-building deal with a country other than the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th April, 2012
The story is simple – and fairly straightforward. Great Britain has approximately 11000 containers of equipment and 3000 armored carriers to take out of Afghanistan after eleven years of war. The equipment includes armoured patrol vehicles, tankers, trucks and weaponry such as heavy machine guns, mortars and rocket systems.
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Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2012
Can it be that Germany and Europe are beginning to develop an independent foreign policy?
9th April, 2012
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has underlined Iran’s right to develop its nuclear energy program as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2012
8th April, 2012
Tens of thousands of protesters have attended rallies in more than 70 cities across Germany to protest against the US-led war in Afghanistan as well as the proliferation of nuclear arms.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2012
Michael Collins
7th April, 2012
Foreign Policy just published a roundup of weapons contributed to the Libyan rebels in the regime change effort. The e-Journal is a publication of the Washington Post. Colum Lynch’s April 4 article relies on the March 20 UN report to the UN Security Council by a panel of experts appointed to track the UN resolutions and responses from the start of the conflict.
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