M.K.Bhadrakumar
25th August, 2012
The great game in Central Asia has a history of occasionally turning rough. Turkey may have become its latest victim.
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.
Thoroughbred loose on the Kyrgyz steppes
Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2012
Posted in Afghanistan, Multipolar world | Tagged: kyrgyzstan, neo-Ottoman imperialism, Russian diplomacy, the great game | Leave a Comment »
Egypt thumbs the nose at US
Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st August, 2012
The gloom in Washington must be deepening. Egypt is careering away from the alliance with the United States – and the bitter truth cannot be hidden or obfuscated anymore.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Egypt's foreign policy, Egyptian revolution | Leave a Comment »
27 world countries attending Tehran Conference on Syria
Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012
9th August, 2012
TEHRAN (Source: FNA)- Representatives of 27 world and regional states as well as the UN envoy to Tehran are participating in the international consultative conference on the developments in Syria, which started work here in Tehran on Thursday.
Posted in Multipolar world, Syria | Tagged: Tehran Conference on Syria | Leave a Comment »
Tehran reaches out to Egypt’s Morsi
Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2012
2nd August, 2012
This is a development that holds the potential to shake up Middle Eastern politics — Iranian vice-president visiting Cairo. The two countries pulled down the shutters following the Iranian revolution in 1979 and a dark period continued right till the end of the Hosni Mubarak era. The revolution on Tahrir Square one year ago heralded a thaw, the first sign of which was the permission granted to an Iranian warship to cross the Suez Canal to visit Syria.
Posted in Multipolar world, Syria | Tagged: Egyptian revolution | Leave a Comment »
Cuba califica a Washington como el primer patrocinador del terrorismo mundial
Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2012
2nd August, 2012
El Gobierno de Cuba afirmó este miércoles que Estados Unidos carece de autoridad moral para crear y difundir una lista de supuestos Estados terroristas, ya que Washington es actualmente el primer patrocinador del terrorismo mundial.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: "War on Terror" | Leave a Comment »
China’s Navy in the Mediterranean?
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2012
And one thing is certain: the transit of PLAN and Russian vessels in the area is not coincidental — it is clearly meant as a deterrent against intervention by Western powers in the Syrian crisis.
Exactly. This is an audacious and timely move by China
30th July, 2012
For the first time since China’s re-emergence as a power to be reckonedwith, Western powers are being confronted with scenarios involving the risk of clashes with Chinese military forces outside the Asian giant’s backyard.
Posted in Multipolar world, Syria | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) | 1 Comment »
Syrie : Triple véto doublé sino-russe. Fin d’une conjuration, fin d’un unilatéralisme ?
Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
Djerrad Amar
25th July, 2012
Le dernier double véto de la Russie et de la Chine sur la question syrienne doit bien renseigner que le monde a bien changé dans les rapports de force. Un triple véto doublé sur la Syrie ne se décide pas sur l’humeur, mais sur des analyses géostratégiques objectives. Il s’agit d’un affrontement entre deux conceptions du monde : l’une unipolaire et l’autre multipolaire. Les rapports de force entre les différentes puissances constituant les éléments clés, décisifs.
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Venezuela’s partnership with Russia : An emblematic step
Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2012
Olivia Kroth
16th July, 2012
While the Western system, under the influence of the war lobbies, is based on financial parasitism and unbridled predation, Venezuela and Russia are building an alternative model. The multipolar world is one of balanced partnerships and win-win agreements. But as pointed out by Olivia Kroth, the Libyan tragedy should serve as a lesson: the emergence of an alternative to imperial capitalism must go hand in hand with a strong defense capability.
Under President Chávez, Venezuela is enjoying good relations with Russia as one of its most important trade and military partners in Latin America. By strengthening the Venezuelan-Russian ties, Hugo Chávez wants to help creating a multi-polar world, “a world that permits the rights of peoples to liberty, self-determination and sovereignty”.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), Bolivarian Revolution, revolucion bolivarista, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
The real Libor scandal
Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2012
All this is part of the so-called flight to safety whereby alternative investment outlets are blocked off forcing funds into US/UK bonds as the least bad option. The systematic devaluation of the euro via quantitative easing, long sought by Wall Street and the City of London and now seemingly being carried out with the direct bailout of the Spanish banks without creditor or shareholder write-downs, is another pillar of this policy.
Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins
Institute for Political Economy
14th July, 2012
According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate in order to obtain a cheap borrowing cost. The way this scandal is playing out is that the banks benefitted from borrowing at these low rates. Whereas this is true, it also strikes us as simplistic and as a diversion from the deeper, darker scandal.
Posted in Battle for Europe, Currency Wars, Financial crisis | Tagged: libor scandal | Leave a Comment »
Escobar: Democraship exported from S.America to Middle East
Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2012
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: land reform in South America, latifundistas, mercosur, paraguay coup, revolucion bolivarista | Leave a Comment »
Why India shouldn’t prevaricate on Iran
Posted by seumasach on June 15, 2012
14th June, 2012
Russia is trying to produce something out of the hat at next week’s meeting between P5+1 and Iran, which it will be hosting. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went to Tehran on Wednesday. He likely carried some fresh proposals. From Tehran he proceeded to Kabul to attend the conference there on Thursday (regarding Afghanistan’s future), for which US deputy secretary of state William Burns (former US ambassador to Russia) also arrived at the Afghan capital. Conceivably, Lavrov and Burns found time to exchange notes. Iranian FM Ali Akbar Salehi was also available at the Kabul conference.
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