11th June, 2009
Russia says that the US must halt its plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe before the two countries can start a dialogue on missile defense.
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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
Russia insists on halt to US missile shield
Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2009
Posted in New Cold War | Tagged: missile defence system, New Cold War, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Dennis Kucinich Once Again Speaks Out Against Wars in the Middle East
Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
Dennis Kucinich Once Again Speaks Out Against Iraq War
Cleveland Leader
10th June 2009
Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:
“Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, had no intention or capability of attacking United States, had nothing to do with Al-Qaida’s role in 9/11, and each and every statement made by the previous administration in support of going to war turned out to be false. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Afghanistan, Drive to Global War, Iraq | Tagged: Pakistan | Leave a Comment »
Mollycoddling Mubarak, Mugging Mugabe
Posted by smeddum on June 11, 2009
Mollycoddling Mubarak, Mugging Mugabe
By Stephen Gowans
June 10th 2009
Whatsleft
Led by the United States, Western countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on what is called democracy promotion. This usually involves promoting pro-private property, pro-free trade, and pro-foreign investment forces in foreign countries where these principles are not firmly implanted. Generous funding is showered upon media, human rights groups, and election monitors that oppose governments whose attachment is less than absolute to the three major freedoms of capitalist ideology (the 3Fs)– free-trade, free-enterprise, and free-markets. Pro-3F political parties, like the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, and in previous years, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, are provided with training, expert advice, strategic consulting and campaign funds to help them win elections (1). Experts on how to destabilize governments through civil disobedience are dispatched to train nonviolent pro-democracy activists to topple governments that have come to power in elections the West’s preferred 3F candidates but failed to win. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: Democracy Manipulation | Leave a Comment »
Sadr: Obama has subtle plans to control world
Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2009
5th June, 2009
Iraq’s senior cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says Barack Obama’s speech indicates that the US wants to take a different avenue to bring the world under its control.
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: Iraq, iraq withdrawal, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
US ‘privatizing’ war in Iraq, Afghanistan?
Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2009
5th June, 2009
Number of US contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan is on the rise despite Washington claims that it would withdraw forces from both countries within years.
Posted in Afghanistan, Drive to Global War, Iraq | Tagged: mercenaries, privatizing war | 1 Comment »
Obama-The Cairo factor
Posted by smeddum on June 5, 2009
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Ahmadinejad: Blair apologized to Iran
Posted by smeddum on June 4, 2009
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:34:21 GMT Press TV
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says former British prime minister Tony Blair has sent a letter to apologize to Iran regarding the sailors’ case.
During a TV debate with his rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi which was broadcast live on Wednesday, he defended his foreign policy and said Blair’s letter had prompted his government to release the 15 British sailors who were captured by Iranian forces after trespassing in Iran’s waters in 2007.
“The sailors were captured and after the issue reached a climax, Mr. Blair sent a letter of apology. He said they would change their policy toward Iran. The related documents are in the Foreign Ministry … I believe that one of the most beautiful things the Islamic Republic did was the release of the sailors,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Turning the threatened into the aggressor: Media distortions in coverage of north Korea’s nuclear test
Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2009
Stephen Gowans
31st May, 2009
Colin Powell said we would…turn north Korea into a ‘charcoal briquette,’ I mean that’s the way we talk to north Korea, even though the mainstream meda doesn’t pay attention to that kind of talk. A charocal briquette. (1)
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: New Cold War, North Korean Missile Test | Leave a Comment »
L’Administration US veut faire du Pakistan un État défaillant
Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2009
Rashid Zubair
1st June, 2009
L’armée pakistanaise, encadrée par les États-Unis, a tenté d’écraser les talibans dans l’ex-principauté de Swat. Les combats, particulièrement imprécis, ont provoqué l’exode de 2 millions de personnes. Selon Rashid Zubair, les talibans de Swat incarneraient avant tout une révolte des pauvres, tandis que la stratégie US les instrumenterait pour provoquer une guerre civile et justifier une confiscation des armes atomiques.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: bombing Pakistan. Obama foreign policy, Obama agenda, Swat valley, US attacks on Pakistan | Leave a Comment »
Russia wants CSTO to be as strong as NATO
Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2009
MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is planning to build a strong military contingent in Central Asia within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) comparable to NATO forces in Europe, a Russian business daily said on Friday.
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Posted in Multipolar world, New Cold War | Tagged: Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Multipolar world, New Cold War, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Political Commentary on President of Slovenia’s lecture at University of Bosphorus in Istanbul
Posted by smeddum on May 29, 2009
Political Commentary on President of Slovenia’s lecture at University of Bosphorus in Istanbul
May 29, 12:34 AM ·
examiner.com
It is worth mentioning that Chavez, now thinks that China, with much supporting evidence, is leading the world.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-04/09/content_7660653.htm
During his first official visit to Turkey since being inaugurated as the President of the Republic of Slovenia in November 2007, Dr. Danilo Turk gave a lecture on May 21st at the University of Bosphorus in Istanbul entitled “Multilateralism in an Era of Uncertainty: The Role of the Institutions in the System of the United Nations.”
Having read his speech, one of the things that stuck out to me was his observation that big economic powers like China, India and others compete and that they are relatively peaceful in the way that they compete. He suggests that happiness is the appropriate response to competition being of a peaceful nature in today’s world. He continues by asking the question how does the world organize for that competition? From his perspective, he sees this remaining as an open question and he observes that at a recent meeting of the group of G20 in London he saw a pattern of competitiveness mixed with cooperativeness. Read the rest of this entry »
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