Archive for the ‘Multipolar world’ Category
The New World Order is not turning out as planned. Instead of all power emanating from London and Washington, new power centres are emerging to the South and East: a new global equilibrium raises the possibility of a new post-imperial age of peace and equality between nations.
Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2016
Britain spurns China and moves closer to the USA. The USA moves closer to Russia. Therefore, it would appear that Anglo-American detente with Russia is on the horizon whilst China is the new enemy in a move which reverses Nixon’s famous diplomacy of the early seventies.
RT
14th July, 2016
The US reportedly seeks to create a joint HQ with Russia to share intelligence and conduct “synchronized” strikes on Islamists in Syria. The plan, if approved, would see unusually deep military-to-military ties for the two nations amid uneasy relations.
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Posted by seumasach on April 24, 2016
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
22nd April, 2016
President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has boomeranged. His good intentions were never in doubt – mend fences between the two countries. But what emerges is that it will need much more than one visit – maybe, even one full presidency cannot fulfill such a mission. According to Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi intelligence chief, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
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Posted by seumasach on April 24, 2016
Huffington Post
22nd April, 2016
The day after the impeachment vote in the lower house of Brazil’s congress, one of the leaders of the effort, Senator Aloysio Nunes, traveled to Washington, D.C. He had scheduled meetings with a number of U.S. officials, including Thomas Shannon at the State Department.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2016
Pepe Escobar
RT
19th April, 2016
The gloomy and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2016
A radicalização política e a intolerância chegaram hoje a um ponto perigoso. Não há mais debate, apenas bate-boca e gritaria. Neste cenário dominado pelas paixões, tudo pode acontecer, mesmo um sério conflito social.( Political radicalism and intolerance have today reached a dangerous point. There is no more debate, just a shouting match. In this scenario dominated by emotion anything can happen, even a serious social conflict)
Jose Murilo de Carvalho talking to the BBC
The report below which a friend sent me from Brazil gives a strong sense of the extremely disturbed atmosphere prevailing in Brazil.
RELATÓRIO DA ZUMBILÂNDIA – O DAY AFTER IMPEACHMENT
(Um brasileiro exilado no seu próprio país)
Gui Mallon
English translation at bottom
Estou escrevendo escondido no meu refúgio, em uma terra cada vez mais tomada por zumbis. O vírus vidiótico se espalha velozmente através de uma mosca azul hipnótica que faz “plim-plim”. Chama-se TV Globo. A única maneira de escapar do seu alcance é vestir a alma de vermelho. Mas com cuidado para não transparecer, porque os zumbis andam em grupos e se reconhecerem qualquer nuance desta cor, mesmo em cabelos ruivos, são capazes de atacar, gritando: FORA IGUALDADE !
FORA LEGALIDADE ! FORA FRATERNIDADE !
Temo principalmente pela minha família…
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2016
‘Tudo pode acontecer, até um sério conflito social’
BBC
22nd March, 2016
Um dos mais conhecidos historiadores brasileiros, em especial pela publicação, em 1987, de Os Bestializados: O Rio de Janeiro e a República que Não Foi (livro que fez uma análise crítica sobre o processo de proclamação da República no Brasil), José Murilo de Carvalho oferece uma visão pessimista do atual momento político do país.
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Use google to translate from Portuguese
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2016
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
1st March, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi coasted to a magnificent victory in the 2014 parliamentary poll in India winning an absolute majority and punctuating the ‘coalition era’ in the country’s politics on a platform of ‘development agenda’, which the world applauded as a mandate for accelerating market reforms.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2016
New American
24th February, 2016
East Coast-West Coast, from Harvard to Hollywood, China Inc. is setting down a big footprint, with indispensable assistance from some of the biggest names on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle Group, Kissinger Associates, CitiBank, JPMorgan Chase.
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Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2016
Silk Road’ trade route revived as first train arrives in Iran from China with goods
ABC
16th February, 2016
The first train to connect China and Iran has arrived in Tehran loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road, the Iranian railway company says.
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2016
As this article shows, multipolarity is no longer an abstract concept, it is the emerging reality. What is also striking is the very discrete US-Russian cooperation
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
11th February, 2016
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made an extraordinary statement during an interview with the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on Wednesday. He ‘tweaked’ the assessment by the Defense Ministry in Moscow a couple of days earlier that Turkey could be planning a military intervention in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2016
Sputnik
10th February, 2016
Tehran has taken revenge on Washington for years of US-driven economic warfare against Iran: the National Iranian Oil Company has announced that Iran will only accept payment in euros, not dollars, for its oil, F. William Engdahl notes, adding that Saddam Hussein had adopted a similar ‘petroeuro’ practice, prompting the US to invade Iraq.
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Posted in Currency Wars | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), dollar collapse, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
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