Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2008
M K Bhadrakumar
11th October, 2008
On Sunday, en route to Astana, Kazakhstan, after a “very nice trip to India”, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters accompanying her, “I just wish I could have stayed longer in India”. New Delhi must be one of a handful of capitals where officials from the George W Bush administration receive an expectant welcome, and the doomsday warnings emitted from New York and Washington do not seem to matter.
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Posted by smeddum on October 10, 2008
Aussies joke – and hope – that China can save capitalism
1 day ago
SYDNEY (AFP) — A cartoon on the front page of Australia’s national newspaper Thursday neatly illustrates an irony admitted by the government: communist China could save capitalism.
The illustration shows a Chinese man in a Superman outfit telling exactly this to a bankrupt, cigar-smoking Wall Street tycoon covering his nakedness in a barrel.
“Oh, you’re just loving this, aren’t you,” the fallen high-flyer replies in the cartoon in The Australian. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 10, 2008
from Gazeta.ru, RBC Daily RiaNovosti
Medvedev, Sarkozy find common language
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has supported Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s idea of reforming the European security system. The two leaders made policy speeches at the first World Policy Conference in Evian, France. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 9, 2008
Signs of a ‘nonpolar’ world emerging amid financial crisis
By YOICHI FUNABASHI, Asahi Shimbun editor in chief Asahi.com
2008/10/9
There are forebodings that something has clearly come to an end as an age reaches its end.
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal described the decision by U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley to transform itself into a commercial bank holding company as “the end of Wall Street.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2008
Russia’s Medvedev outlines measures for handling global crisis
Prime-Tass
EVIAN, France, Oct 8 (Prime-Tass) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev outlined Wednesday his vision for handling the global financial crisis, ITAR-TASS reported.
“(The crisis) has been caused by some countries’ economic egoism,” he said at the World Policy Conference in the French spa resort of Evian in the run-up to a meeting with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy. “As we can see, now this crisis threatens to undermine the stability of global (economic) development.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2008
M.K. Bhadrakumar
8th October, 2008
With the reported intra-Afghan talks under the mediation of Saudi Arabia in Mecca on September 24-27, attention inevitably shifts to the hidden aspects of the “war on terror” in Afghanistan – the geopolitics of the war. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has committed to pulling out Canadian troops from Afghanistan in 2011, let the cat out of the bag last week when he said that some Western leaders wrongly believed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops could stay there forever.
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Posted by smeddum on October 6, 2008
A global downturn in the power of the west
By Dominique Moïsi
Published: October 5 2008 18:21 | Last updated: October 5 2008 18:21 Financial Times
It is telling times when the FT prints an article that should appear in the Socialist Worker, with a few changes in jargon and an outlook that actually assesses Western power and not just capitalist crises. As to Europe, the author, here, is rather one sided: have a look at our Editorial.
It is not too early to assess the first geopolitical lessons of the current financial maelstrom. As the crisis unfolds, trends are emerging. The near collapse of financial capitalism both confirms and accelerates a revolution that was already under way in international politics. Who are the losers and who are likely to be the winners – that is, those who lose the least – in the present mess? In the language of Wall Street, the west is down and the state is up. Moreover, democracy itself risks falling into disrepute if solutions are not found to the crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 5, 2008
Chavez for Turning South America into World Power
Caracas, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) South America should become a leading power in today´s multipolar world, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who also advised the United States “to learn to listen.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 4, 2008
TRADE-AFRICA: Chinese Dragon Shifts Its Weight
By Tom Minney IPS
Getting the best out of China’s evolving role may in the end come down to African governance.
Credit: Merlin
ADDIS ABEBA, Sep 27 (IPS) – Behind the media headlines about China’s scramble into Africa, new trends are emerging of far-reaching involvement in finance, infrastructure and manufacturing. A two-way engagement even sees African lessons shaping Chinese foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2008
The MERCOSUR, Mercado Común del Sur, (Common Market of the South) is an ambitious economic integration project which includes the founding members Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and this year Venezuela. Chile and Bolivia are associate members. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia have expressed their willingness to join the group, and Mexico has shown a growing interest.
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Posted by smeddum on October 3, 2008
Chile urges Latin America to raise trade with Asia People’sDaily
Chilean Representative of the Foreign Ministry Carlos Furche on Thursday urged Latin America to promote regional integration and raise economic exchanges with countries from the Asia-Pacific region. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 