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 February 21, 2009
Cailean Bochanan
22nd February, 2009
The latest GEAB report poses in the sharpest possible terms the crisis of global leadership. Indeed, it concludes that the chances of effective global counter-crisis action are now negligible and that we are near to entering a phase of “global dislocation” at the end of which “the world will look more like Europe in 1913 rather than our world in 2007.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
20th February, 2009
Iran’s defense minister says he achieved the objectives of his official visit to Russia amid reports that Tehran sought the S-300 system.
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Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009
19th February, 2009
Brazil is keen to see transactions between South American states take place using national currencies, without recourse to the US dollar.
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Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2009
GEAB
17th February, 2009
Back in February 2006, LEAP/E2020 estimated that the global systemic crisis would unfold in 4 main structural phases: trigger, acceleration, impact and decanting phases. This process enabled us to properly anticipate events until now. However our team has now come to the conclusion that, due to the global leaders’ incapacity to fully realise the scope of the ongoing crisis (made obvious by their determination to cure the consequences rather than the causes of this crisis), the global systemic crisis will enter a fifth phase in the fourth quarter of 2009, a phase of global geopolitical dislocation.
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Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009
BEIJING, February 17 (RIA Novosti) – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is considering Iran’s bid to become a full member of the regional security bloc, a SCO source said on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on February 13, 2009
Martin Jacques
13th February, 2009
The key relationship for any global recovery is between the US andChina. By the same token, any serious deterioration in their relationship would propel the world towards a second Great Depression. The Chinese citizen has funded the credit-driven American consumer boom: or, to put it another way, China’s government has enabled the US to run an enormous current account deficit by buying huge quantities of US treasury bills. If China stops this, the value of the US dollar would plunge, and a bitter trade war, engulfing the rest of the world, would ensue.
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Posted by seumasach on February 13, 2009
MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti) – The presidents of Russia and Turkey adopted a joint declaration following talks in Moscow on Friday to promote ties and enhance bilateral friendship and partnership.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
6th February, 2009
It may seem there could be nothing in common between the blowing up of a bridge in the Khyber, the usage of an air base nestling in the foothills of the Pamirs and the launch of a 60-pound (37.2 kilogram) satellite into the night sky that will circle the Earth 14 times a day.
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Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2009
6th February, 2009
ANKARA – A Turkish prosecutor has launched an investigation into whether Israel committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its offensive in Gaza, his office said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2009
The consolidation of cooperative relations between Germany and Russia, including, by the look of it Russia’s new security proposals is the key development in the emergence of an independent Europe which has cast off the tutelage of the anglosphere. Twice last century the London- Washington axis managed to draw the two giants into conflict; this was then institutionalised in the Cold War and, of course, the division of Germany. Now, Germany and Russia are drawing inexorably together and the New Cold War is a damp squib.
Mackinder expressed the conditons for anglo-saxon hegemony as follows:
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
Who rules the Heartland commands the world-island
Who rules the world-island controls the world.”
The writing has been on the wall for some time: the US/UK are being pushed to the fringes of the “world-island” .We are witnessing the dramatic demise of a maritime, financier empire which has dominated the world for over three hundred years.
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MUNICH, February 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russia must be included in European security structures, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy
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Posted by seumasach on February 6, 2009
MOSCOW, February 4 (RIA Novosti) – The collective rapid-reaction force to be created by a post-Soviet regional security bloc will be just as good as comparable NATO forces, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
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