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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 October 15, 2009
F.William Engdahl
Global Research
15th October, 2009
The latest news report that Russia will sign an agreement with the Bolivian government to explore and produce natural gas is a significant setback for US domination of its traditional Latin American sphere of influence. Since it was declared in 1823 as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States, especially its banking elites have regarded South America as a de facto ‘American plantation.’ The move by Russia’s state-owned Gazprom into Bolivia must be seen as Moscow’s asymmetric geopolitical response to US expansion of NATO to the doorstep of Moscow in recent years. The US is ill-prepared to counter with any economic incentive.
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
Tokyo to cease support for Western occupation of Afghanistan
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Morning Star
Japan said on Tuesday that it will end its support for the US occupation of Afghanistan and pull its naval ships out of the Arabian Sea in the New Year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
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Aljazeera
13/10/2009
Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has begun a three-day visit to China overseeing the signing of deals worth $3.5bn between Russian and Chinese companies.
Putin is in the Chinese capital for talks with top officials aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the two countries.
Officials are still working on the details of a joint energy agreement, worth another $2bn, which they hope will also be signed during Putin’s visit.
The Russian prime minister is due to meet his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, and hold talks with President Hu Jintao later. Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2009
Jim Willie
Market Oracle
8th October, 2009
The story hit like a thief in the night, even bearing Biblical proportions. The end of the exlusive sale of MidEast oil in USDollars, the rise of Russian and Chinese influence in the Persian Gulf, the rise in importance for the Intl Monetary Fund basket of currencies, the final clarion call for the free ride by Americans on the Dollar Credit Card, and hidden implications that the Saudis must shop for a new security lord in the region with broad military might, these are revolutionary steps with profound geopolitical implications.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2009
The AfIrPac agenda takes shape
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| Interested in developing their economic and energy ties, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold a trilateral summit in November.
The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday that Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran Mohammad Bakhsh Abbasi announced the upcoming summit in the capital Tehran during a news conference highlighting the “Defense Day of Pakistan.” Abbasi did not mention the venue of the summit. Addressing journalists Abbasi said he was optimistic that because Iran’s recent negotiations with members of the 5 plus 1 Group (France, Britain, Russia, China, the United States and Germany) were successful, Iran could continue to defend its rights as an independent country. Turning to economic matters the ambassador observed, “Tehran’s and Islamabad’s trade stood at $1 billion this year, of which 80 percent consisted of Iran’s oil exports to Pakistan.”
Energy also forms a significant part of Afghan-Iranian trade, which in 2008 reached $500 million. Of Iran’s exports, oil accounts for nearly 45 percent of the country’s revenue. |
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009
F William Engdahl
Asia Times
9th October, 2009
Arab oil-producing nations and some of the world’s largest oil consumers including China and Japan are reliably reported to be planning a long-term exit from pricing their oil trade in US dollars. If true, it would spell the death knell for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and for the United States as global economic power.
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Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009
Wednesday,
October 7, 2009
We are living through one of the times in history when a major and irrevocable shift is taking place. It will be a time that will be the subject of controversy amongst historians and, no doubt, there will be arguments about causation, about what set off a chain reaction of change. They will perhaps ponder and wonder that so many people were so blind to what was actually taking place before their eyes.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
29th September, 2009
“Medvedev-watching” graduated from pure science to applied science during the four-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New York and Pittsburgh last week.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
Sergey Lavrov
Voltairenet.org
29th September, 2009
It is time to build a polycentric world, asserted Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. The proposed new structure of international relations is not aimed against the United States, with whom Moscow no longer has an ideological divide. It corresponds to a need shared by all, including U.S. policy makers who avow the impossibility for a superpower to dominate the world by force. Nevertheless, such rhetoric hardly veils Russia’s great concern that the collapse of the United States might prove to be even more tumultuous than that of the Soviet Union. Without antagonizing them, Sergey Lavrov would like to impress upon Western countries that they are no longer the centre of the world.
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