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 smeddum on October 25, 2009
10/25/09 9:55 AM
Angola and Argentina sign accord on higher education
Buenos Aires – The governments of Angola and Argentina signed last Friday, in Buenos Aires City, a cooperation accord in the field of higher education and a verbal process on the first session of the bilateral commission, at the end of two-day talks between the delegations of both countries. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2009
China Becomes A Player In Afghanistan’s Future
by ANTHONY KUHN
October 21, 2009
In search of a solution to Afghanistan’s problems, the United States is seeking help from several of Afghanistan’s neighbors, including China, which has become the largest commercial investor in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009
20th October, 2009
Russia has obtained all the permits necessary to build its ‘South Stream’ gas pipeline through Turkish territorial waters, discarding Bulgaria as one of the project’s transit countries, the Russian press writes today (20 October).
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009
21st October, 2009
President Abdullah Gül (L) spoke with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on the phone on Monday.
Turkey, which has already announced its intention to hold a joint cabinet meeting with Russia similar to those recently held with Iraq and Syria, hopes to hold such a meeting with its Black Sea neighbor in early December.
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2009
16th October, 2009
The West, which itself in ever more hypocritical fashions, loves to lecture nations about not meddling in other nations’ politics, while itself acting like a brazen bully and mafiosa, buying politicians and political parties, setting up puppets and rigging elections, has found a rather inconvenient truth in Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2009
19th October, 2009
After Jundallah terrorist ring carried out a bloody attack in southeastern Iran, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed readiness to help Iran fight “terrorism”.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2009
Venezuela’s president has said that countries including Venezuela, Russia and Iran have proposed the US dollar should be replaced as the currency used for oil trade.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2009
17th October, 2009
Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on the creation of a regional currency to scale back on the use of the US dollar as well as economic sanctions against Honduran coup leaders.
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Posted by seumasach on October 17, 2009
14th October, 2009
China will carry out the announced ten billion U.S. dollars of loans for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and continue to send trade and investment delegations to other members, said Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday.
Wen also raised a seven-point proposal to enhance regional cooperation at the eighth prime ministers’ meeting of the SCO member states in Beijing.
First, to deepen financial and monetary cooperation. China will enhance the exchanges of financial and monetary policies and improve the trade settlement payment system to promote international monetary system reform, to enhance the diversification and rationalization of the international system and to jointly safeguard financial stability.
Second, to promote the security and facilitation of trade and investment. China will sign the Agreement on Encouragement and Reciprocal protection of Investments, and work out the Agreement on Facilitation of International Road Transport as soon as possible. The government will formulate the Plan on Road Network Development Coordination and strengthen the management on port cooperation, as well as to solve the food security problems of the member states.
Third, to accelerate the implementation of large economic and technological cooperation projects. China will mainly carry out the construction of infrastructures including roads and railways, to explore new clean energies and develop new economic growth points. It will give full play to industrial councils and bank consortium to create better conditions for middle and small industries.
Fourth, to expand channels of cooperation. China will deepen the reform in agriculture cooperation, guarantee food security and establish a promoting system for boarder agricultural trades. It will enhance technological cooperation, transformation and modernization of traditional industries, the capacity of creativity and industrialization of scientific results.
Fifth, China will carry out the announced ten billion U.S. dollars of loans for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and continue to send trade and investment delegations to other members, to fight trade and investment protectionism and motivate trades and development of the members.
Sixth, to promote cultural exchanges, and the cooperation on health, education, disaster relief and human resources. China will support the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with funds to join in the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Seventh, to deepen the cooperation on security. China will intensify the fight against the three forces and steadily support each other on sovereignty, security and development.
The SCO, established in 2001, comprises China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran are observers of the group.
The eighth prime ministers’ meeting was chaired by Premier Wen and attended by his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as representatives from the SCO observer nations and Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2009
Pepe Escobar
17th October, 2009
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For the (Western) news cycle, what stood out from United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia this week was an “appeal for cooperation” and a “challenge” for Russia to open up its political system, embrace “diversity” and shelve Cold War thinking.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
17th October, 2009
The surprise element was almost completely lacking. The expectation in Delhi for a while has been that sooner or later Beijing would hit out. Verbal affronts from India were becoming a daily occurrence and a nuisance for Being. Not a single day has passed for the past several months when either influential sections of the Indian strategic community or the English-language media, tied by the umbilical cord of financial patronage to the Indian establishment, failed to indulge in some vituperative attack on Chinese policies and conduct towards India.
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In These New Times 