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 smeddum on October 6, 2009
Tue, 06 Oct 2009
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton
Iran has scored a ‘big victory’ in last week’s Geneva talks with the West, former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says.
In an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Bolton wrote on a recent meeting between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany on October 5. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2009
4th October, 2009
Amid reports of a deal reached for the establishment of US military bases in Colombia, the country’s foreign minister says there is no need for more American personnel.
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Posted by seumasach on October 1, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
John Feffer
1st October, 2009
Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [1] is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility. Despite the smiles and reassuring rhetoric at its annual summits, its internal politics have become fractious to the point of dysfunction. Perhaps like any sexagenarian in this age of health-care crises and economic malaise, the transatlantic alliance is simply anxious about its future.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
29th September, 2009
“Medvedev-watching” graduated from pure science to applied science during the four-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New York and Pittsburgh last week.
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Posted by seumasach on September 28, 2009
Radio Nethrelands
27th September, 2009
In Honduras, deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has called on his followers to march on the capital Tegucigalpa on Monday, in what he called a “decisive offensive” against the country’s de-facto government.
On Saturday, three months after Mr Zelaya was deposed in a coup and forced to leave the country, thousands of Hondurans took to the streets to demonstrate against the current leaders.
Mr Zelaya, who returned unexpectedly to Honduras just under a week ago, has now taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy. The embassy has since been surrounded by government forces and its supplies of gas, water and electricity cut off.
The government has warned Brazil that action will be taken if, within the next ten days, it does not prevent Mr Zelaya from continuing his protest from within the embassy. The United Nations Security Council has warned the Honduran government not to use violence to remove Mr Zelaya from the building.
The Red Cross says the situation in the Brazilian embassy is indeed poor, but not serious. It added that it could neither confirm nor deny reports that the Honduran army had released a toxic gas into the building.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Fidel Castro
25th September, 2009
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup d’état in Honduras “was conceived of and organized by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right, dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted by him.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Paul Harris
27th September, 2009
At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted knock on the door. Syverson’s son, Branden, is an American soldier serving in Afghanistan, conducting dangerous patrols in an area infested with Taliban.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
27th September, 2009
The construction of a uranium enrichment facility by Iran outside of Qum, which Tehran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of days ago, has been seized upon dishonestly by Washington “as a chance to…persuade other countries to support the case for stronger sanctions” against Iran. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
26th September, 2009
The mayors of Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the world subjected to nuclear bomb attacks, have praised a UN resolution for a nuclear-free world.
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