Archive for the ‘Drive to Global War’ Category
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2014
Obama’s anti-Russian turn is devoid of strategic sense. He can’t court China at the expense of Russia as Nixon did: China and Russia are now inseparable allies and increasingly so in the face of Western hostility. However, anti-Russian rhetoric does serve as a cover for Washington’s close engagement with China which includes permitting China to exchange its dollar holdings for real assets, especially artificially underpriced gold, but also real estate, industrial and port facilities inside the USA.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
25th November, 2014
The India-Russia annual summitry had lately become a tepid affair — something like the anniversary of a boring marriage. How often can an aged couple arouse passion? But the upcoming event bringing President Vladimir Putin to Delhi next month promises to be exciting. Geopolitics may act like an aphrodisiac.
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Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2014
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
Voltairenet
21st November, 2014
Pour Alfredo Jalife, le G20 de Brisbane n’a pas été le théâtre d’un isolement de la Russie, mais d’une fracture toujours plus prononcée entre les membres des BRICS d’un côté, et les alliés de Washington de l’autre. Les premiers ont d’abord pris acte de la mauvaise foi des Occidentaux qui s’étaient engagés, en 2010 à Séoul, à une réforme du FMI jamais terminée. Puis, ils ont réaffirmé leurs intérêts communs et leur décision de créer un système international alternatif. Par ailleurs, il semble que l’acharnement des médias atlantistes à tourner en dérision le départ anticipé du président Poutine vise à masquer les rumeurs sur un possible attentat contre lui.
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Posted in Multipolar world, New Cold War | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), G20 summit | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2014
Ramin Davoodi
Asia Times
21st November, 2014
The macroeconomic and geopolitical stakes are high in a stand-off between the global East, South and West. As the stakes rise on the world’s chessboard, so does Iran’s role.
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2014
Throw More Weapons at the Problem
American Conservative
10th November, 2014
The Republican foreign policy agenda in the new year promises to be lousy:
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Posted by seumasach on November 12, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
12th November, 2014
Between optimism and pessimism stands ‘cautious optimism’ in the lexicon of diplomacy. But ‘relative optimism’? Yet, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Rybakov, one of the sharpest minds in the Moscow diplomatic armory, would have weighed his words with care and ingenuity when he remarked on Tuesday following the 2-day talks of the P5+1 and Iran talks in Muscat, Oman, that he is “relatively optimistic” about a nuclear treaty being concluded by the November 24 deadline. He added: “The glass is half full; (but) it’s not half empty.”
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Posted by seumasach on November 11, 2014
Russia Insider
10th November, 2014
As Germany and many other nations celebrate the 25th anniversary of the demolition of Berlin Wall, the event which symbolized the end of the Cold War, it is important to analyze why U.S. – Russia relations are presently at an even more confrontational state, and why Francis Fukuyama’s famously-proclaimed the “end of history” due to West’s triumphal victory over USSR was just wishful thinking by a great philosopher.
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Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2014
PressTV
4th November, 2014
Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says Takfiri ISIL militants, who are currently wreaking havoc on Syria and Iraq, have no future and will definitely be defeated.
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Posted in Syria | Tagged: ISIL | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2014
Middle East Online
2nd November, 2014
TUNIS – French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy was expelled from Tunisia Saturday night only 24 hours after his arrival in the country.
He was supposed to stay in Tunisia till Thursday.
His visit had provoked a storm of protests in the country. The trade union federation (UGTT) called Saturday for his expulsion from the country denouncing his role in “inciting anarchy and encouraging civil wars and terrorism in the Arab World”.
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Posted by seumasach on October 3, 2014
Biden spins a likely tale but sometimes, for example, when you’re completely reversing your foreign policy, some rewriting of history is necessary
RT
3rd October, 2014
US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2014
IRNA
25th September, 2014
New York, Sept 25, IRNA — President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday expressed concern about the globalized terrorism and questioned the world leaders whether they have been united against the extremists?
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Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2014
First Germany, Now France Folds On Syrian Airstrikes
Zero Hedge
22nd September, 2014
In yet another rather embarrassing event for The White House, just days after President Obama praised the French for helping in the fight against ISIS, and General martin Dempsey noted “the French were our very first ally and they’re with us again now,” French officials have, according to Reuters, ruled out participation in airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. With the fall of France (and Germany already saying “nein”), it appears the broad coalition is now a “coalition of none,” as Obama has stated the US would not go it alone…
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