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 January 6, 2015
Between Moscow And Beijing With Travel Time Of 48 Hours
5th January, 2015
Russia will build a high speed railway line between Moscow and Beijing. This will cut down the travel time to about 48 hours. The existing travel time is seven days, and it will be a revolution when it will be cut to two days.
Posted in Multipolar world, Uncategorized | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), Russia China co-operation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2014
Cailean Bochanan
19th December, 2014
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T.S.Elliot
Those who have been following the analysis put forward in these columns may be stunned but will not be surprised by Obama’s announcement ending the US standoff with Cuba. As I wrote almost two years ago:
“You don’t have to regard Barack Obama as the the embodiment of ultimate virtue to support the recent shift towards a certain realism in Washington. He has declared an end to “war without end”. It doesn’t matter that this is only an accommodation to new realities and not the reflection of some inherent goodness in the US leader. What matters is that he is aware of reality and is accommodating to it: this is what leadership is about. He has recognised that the policy options chosen by his administration have not worked. They could have worked perhaps but they didn’t . The government of Bashar-al Assad has not collapsed in the face of Western sponsored Islamist movements and is not going to. The eurozone is not going to collapse to accommodate the US dollar. America is not going to dictate the course of world events over the coming years. The New World Order, at least not the one envisaged by Washington, London and Tel Aviv, will not come into being.Let us then applaud Barack Obama for providing us with change we might even believe in: a shift in Washington towards an acceptance of the facts, of a return to planet earth.”
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Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2014
10th Decmber, 2014
Brazil and Uruguay have switched to settling bilateral trade with local currency to stimulate turnover, bypassing the US dollar.
Posted in Currency Wars, Multipolar world | Tagged: South American integration, Union of South American nations (Unasur) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2014
US isolated, BRICS to get greater voting power at IMF
13th December, 2014
Months after the formation of new financial institutions like the $100 billion BRICS Bank and the China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Friday that the organization is ready to discuss IMF voting reforms without the United States to give BRICS and emerging countries greater voting power.
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Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2014
20 deals in 24 hours: Russia-India relations given $100 billion-worth boost
12th December, 2014
The economic burden of Western sanctions has pushed Russia to the east in search of business opportunities. Judging by the outcome of President Putin’s visit to India – 20 high-profile deals struck – Moscow’s ‘pivot to Asia’ is getting a warm welcome.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), Modi's agenda, Putin's Asia pivot, russia india strategic partnership, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2014
9th December, 2014
The EU has dispatched its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to Turkey to prioritize the country’s admission to the Union, as well as to talk about its anti-ISIL efforts. This could be seen as a carrot-and-stick approach to goad Turkey away from Russia and back into the Western fold.
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Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2014
Ankara Buckles Against Western Pressure, Turns to Russia
2nd December, 2014
Russia has abandoned the troubled South Stream project and will now be building its replacement with Turkey. This monumental decision signals that Ankara has made its choice to reject Euro-Atlanticsm and embrace Eurasian integration.
Posted in Multipolar world, Uncategorized | Tagged: Eurasian Economic Community, eurasian project, New Eurasian Century, russia -Turkey strategic alliance, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2014
tin: Russian Economy Won’t Be Dominated by ‘Dollar Dictatorship’
14th November, 2014
MOSCOW, November 14 (Sputnik) – Russia plans to leave the “dollar dictatorship” of market oil prices and turn to using the country’s national currency and the Chinese yuan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2014
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
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 by seumasach on November 24, 2014
Ramin Davoodi
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 22, 2014
Maleeha Lodhi
18th November, 2014
A dominant theme at the recent World Economic Forum summit was that the return of geopolitics, turbulence and volatility were combining to shape today’s fraught strategic environment.
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