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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 March 25, 2010
Robert Bridge
Global Research
24th March, 2010
With relations on a low simmer between Beijing and Washington, the Chinese Vice President is in town on a 5-day trip to Russia to tout bilateral relations.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday said during a meeting with Xi Jinping that Moscow and Beijing remain strategic partners.
While noting that much time had passed since their last meeting in May 2008, “the good relations, the relations of strategic partnership characteristic of our countries, have not changed.”
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a meeting that has been described by one Kremlin source as “extremely cordial and productive.”
Although Putin and Xi Jinping’s meeting covered a broad range of issues, approaching bilateral relations from a multi-polar perspective was their guiding principle.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2010
M.K,Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
23rd March, 2010
News that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had reached a plea bargain with David Coleman Headley, who played a key role in the planning of the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008 in which 166 people were killed, has caused an uproar in India.
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Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2010
F.William Engdahl
Global Research
20th March, 2010
The defusing of major Washington military threats is far from the only gain for Moscow in having a neutral but stable Ukrainian neighbor. Russia now vastly improves its ability to expand the one great power lever it has, outside of its remaining and still formidable nuclear strike force. That lever is to counter Washington’s relentless mililtary pressure by cleverly using export of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, a fuel much in demand in Western Europe and even in UK where North Sea fields are in decline.
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Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2010
“Lula stepping into the arena also means one more instance of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) acting as a new rival superpower to an increasingly disoriented “full spectrum dominance” US. None of the BRICs is in favor of isolation of, not to mention an attack on, Iran. This is the case as long as they believe that Iran, according to all available evidence, is nowhere near a nuclear weapon, and an attack would inevitably accelerate nuclear proliferation in the Persian Gulf.”
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
18th March, 2010
Talk about a Via Dolorosa. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the first Brazilian president to visit Israel officially. Lauded for his charisma, swing and formidable negotiating powers – United States President Barack Obama refers to him as “the man” – little did Lula know that to engage his hosts this week he would have to give the Prophet Abraham a run for his money, no less.
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Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2010
In a speech to the Israeli parliament on Monday, Lula said efforts should be made to turn the Middle East into a nuclear weapons-free zone.
This is nothing morethan a reaffirmation of UN resolutions, but, nonetheless, it is immensely encouraging to hear it openly stated and in such a context.
PressTV
16th March, 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has refused to visit the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
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Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2010
Is this the fruit of Putin’s visit? In all events, all the BRIC countries are now opposed to sanctions.
PressTV
16th March, 2010
India on Tuesday announced its opposition to any sanctions that would affect the Iranian people, amid western struggles to punish it for uranium enrichment.
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Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2010
On a geopolitical level, enormously significant developments are coming thick and fast. The US is now reminiscent of the Soviet Union in its decline: it is unable to consolidate its influence in places where it appears to have established a foothold. Russian diplomacy is becoming more and more influential and it interesting to see them trying to resolve or attenuate conflicts such as that between India and Pakistan.
Ravi Velloor
Straits Times
14th March, 2010
A raft of agreements between Russia and India signal Moscow’s return to centre stage in New Delhi’s strategic calculations, where awareness of the limits of its special relationship with the United States is rapidly building.
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Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2010
In this cretinous piece of paranoia, a completely normal and logical development comparable to the setting up of Asean, the Eurozone , ALBA or indeed NAFTA is presented as a bid by the evil Putin to rebuild the Soviet Union. But wasn’t the USSR,,,er, communist? This reds under the beds piece is in fact a venting of frustration about what is happening in the world: it’s multipolarity with several centres of power balancing each other, rather than “full spectrum dominance’ with US/UK the global masters, much to the chagrin of Murdoch. So much for us being good losers.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2010
Globalisation: Multipolar World or New World Order?
Cailean Bochanan
11th March, 2010
A proliferation of articles, mainly, I think, from the left have over the recent period exposed elite plans for a New World Order, meaning a world government enforcing the dictates of London, Washington and their allies. They make grim reading, and one comes away with a feeling of hopelessness in the face of such awesome power: there seems an air of inevitability about the triumph of this new order in its military and economic wars against all comers. The end goal of US/UK is, through NATO, the establishment of global hegemony, but a little more doubt about the realization of these grandiose goals might be in order. Whilst these writers point to the growing power of empire, albeit from an oppositional perspective, we at ITNT have been pointing to the emergence of a multipolar world with multiple foci of opposition to the globalisation of Anglo-American power. This markedly different perspective has struck me as an oddity, since we are both on the same side, that of opposition to US/UK imperialism. What could lie behind it?
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2010
Russell Hsiao
Asia Times
11th March, 2010
Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) – China’s ceremonial legislature – this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the country’s currency, the yuan (or renminbi).
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2010
“In retrospect, Delhi’s hare-brained idea of a US-led “quadripartite alliance” against China, the “Tibet card”, the dilution of a 2003 strategic understanding with Iran, neglect of the traditional friendship with Russia, the lukewarm attitude toward the SCO, exaggerated notions within the establishment regarding the US-India strategic partnership as an alternative to an independent foreign policy and diversified external relationships – all these appear now like dreadful pantomimes out of India’s foreign policy chronicle of recent years that Delhi would rather not think about.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
12th March, 2010
The two-day visit by India’s National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to Kabul last week took place in the immediate context of the lethal terrorist strike on Indians in Kabul on February 26, but it underscored the need for a comprehensive rethink on Delhi’s Afghanistan policy.
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