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 October 8, 2013
Pepe Escobar
8th October, 2013
What a photo – yet another instance of Bali working its magic. Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a “Happy Birthday” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono on acoustic guitar. You know who is not in the picture – he’s in shutdown containment mode. US Think Tankland protestations notwithstanding, there could not be a more graphic reminder of the emerging multipolar order.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013
Russia Expects India, Pakistan to Soon Be Full Members of SCO
5th October, 2013
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) – Russia expects that India and Pakistan will soon become full-fledged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a post-Soviet Eurasian security bloc, Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th October, 2013
The high drama of the US-Iran thaw and the diplomatic wrangle over Syria’s chemical weapons cannot hide the ground reality that the nature of the war in Syria is dramatically changing. Moscow grasps this and it may have prompted President Vladimir Putin’s remark earlier in the week that things are moving in the right direction.
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Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
21st Septemebr, 2013
I’ve already been called mad for my assertion over the last nine months or so that Obama is actually engaged in some kind of peace process involving a historic compromise with Russia in working a resolution of the Syria crisis as well as a broader Middle East settlement. I seem to be the only one who doesn’t know that Obama is a bad guy and that bad guys do bad things, like rocketing Syria at the first available opportunity. My detractors assessment of my mental health is about to become a lot worse since I now propose to suggest that Obama is readying to pit himself against Wall Street- yes, that’s right. Obama, the Manchurian Candidate with a chip in his brain. is about to take on the financial oligarchy of whom he is nothing other than a puppet! What could be the basis for such an exorbitant thesis?
Posted in Currency Wars, Financial crisis | Tagged: dollar collapse, Obama agenda, obama revolution, Obama v. Wall Street, Obama's realist turn | 3 Comments »
Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2013
Brendan P.O’Reiily
The groundwork for a new Eurasian order was laid in remote Kyrgyzstan, even as the world’s attention remains focused on diplomatic maneuvers over Syria. The annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) last week brought together an assembly of heads of state opposed to American unilateral dominance, from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to Iran’s newly elected President Hassan Rouhani.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2013
Korea Herald(Source:Bloomberg)
5th September
The only international issue to raise a ripple in Australia’s election campaign has been Syria, which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd tried to exploit to highlight opponent Tony Abbott’s inexperience in world affairs. That’s unfortunate, because the most critical choice facing Australians on Sept. 7 isn’t between Rudd and Abbott. It’s between the U.S. and China.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
“The British and the US have been exerting pressure on anyone they assumed could have a decision on Zimbabwe’s elections. The decision by the PSC showed that African institutions are resisting external interference in their quest to deliver African solutions to African problems,”
Africa: Sanctions Must Go Now – AU . . . Embargo Must Go Unconditionally, All Must Respect Poll Results, Western Lobby Hits Brick Wall
28th August, 2013
THE African Union Peace and Security Council has called for the immediate and unconditional lifting of the West’s illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe to foster socio-economic recovery. The 15-member PSC, the only organ mandated to enforce union decisions, spoke in the wake of condescending pronouncements from the Anglo-Saxon alliance that comprises the US, Britain and its dominions — the erstwhile penal colony of Australia and Canada — that they would maintain their sanctions, claiming the July 31 harmonised elections were not free and fair.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013
19th August, 2013
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday hailed the passage of a law that reserves the nation’s oil royalties for education and health care as an “historic victory.”
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
7th August, 2013
No tanks, no bullets, no boots on the ground, but a mix of money (a lot of money) and engineers. China and its companies are betting on geopolitical corridors to expand their international clout and business opportunities. Though it is grappling with a creeping economic slowdown, the government in Beijing seems to be keen to fund a string of new, innovative transport arteries around the world.
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Posted by seumasach on July 26, 2013
China’s Yuan Set To Become Global Reserve Currency With Gold Backing?
Recent media reports in China and Russia suggest that China is continuing to consider backing the yuan with gold. Since 2005, we have said that such a move by China was likely as China seeks to become a superpower and lessen and undermine U.S political dominance. We have in the past discussed the possibility of the Chinese pegging their currency to gold bullion.
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