Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2008
Only a couple a weeks after Milliband’s foolish visit, Ukraine appears to be slipping out of Western control.
KIEV, September 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sharply criticized the pro-Western president on Wednesday for damaging the country’s relations with Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2008
James Blitz
15th September
The deal brokered by the European Union for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia has been slammed by Nato’s top official as “not acceptable” because it cedes too much ground to Moscow.
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Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2008
“The complete failure of Cheney’s mission to Baku would appear to have come as a rude awakening to Washington that Moscow has effectively blunted the Bush administration’s gunboat diplomacy in the Black Sea. As the New York Times newspaper grimly assessed on Tuesday,”“The Bush administration, after considerable internal debate, has decided not to take direct punitive action [against Russia] … concluding it has little leverage if it acts unilaterally and that it would be better off pressing for a chorus of international criticism to be led by Europe.”
M K Bhadrakumar
12th September, 2008
Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity in Moscow last week over the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took time off for an exceptionally important mission to Turkey, which might prove a turning point in the security and stability of the vast region that the two powers historically shared.
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Posted by alfied on September 12, 2008
MEXICO, September 12 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuela’s president has demanded the U.S. ambassador leave his country within 72 hours, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Bolivia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by alfied on September 12, 2008
www.chinaview.cn 2008-09-11
LIMA, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday requested U.S. ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg to leave the country immediately, accusing him of “heading the division” inside Bolivia by encouraging, together with the opposition, the protests against his government. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 6, 2008
Hypocrisy of this Magnitude has to be Respected.
By William Blum
06/09/08 “ICH” – — Im sorry to say that I think that John McCain is going to be the next president of the United States. After the long night of Bush horror any Democrat should easily win, but the Dems are screwing it up and McCain has been running more-or-less even with Barack Obama in the polls. The Democrats should run on the slogan “If you liked Bush, you’ll love McCain”, but that would be too outspoken, too direct for the spineless Nancy Pelosi and her spineless party. Or, “If you liked Iraq, you’ll love Iran.” But the Democrat leadership is not on record as categorically opposing either conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by alfied on September 4, 2008
Press TV
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:02:07 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered planeloads of humanitarian aid to be sent to Cuba – recently battered by Hurricane Gustav. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 4, 2008
A Major War: Not Just Rumors
by Srdja Trifkovic
The crisis in relations between the United States and Russia over Georgia heralds a particularly dangerous period in world affairs: the era of asymmetrical multipolarity. A major war between two or more major powers is more likely in this configuration than in any other model of global balance known to history. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2008
With masterful tact and diplomacy Kishore Mahbubani, author of The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West, helps us to see ourselves as we are and overcome our ignorance of the East.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2008
Yulia Tymoshenko seems the epitomy of the pro-American asset , and virulently anti-Russian; yet here she is being accused of siding with the Russians and refusing to condemn their military action in Georgia. The new zeitgeist is pragmatic rather than ideological: events seem to be leading and people just following and the events are leading us to the collapse of Anglo-Saxon leadership in the world and, perhaps, also the end of a much longer historical period, dating from the death of Demosthenes and the collapse of Athenian democracy, in which empire and oligarchy and their corresponding philosophical outlook have, generally, held sway.
KIEV, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s party officially pulled out of the ruling pro-Western coalition on Wednesday amid a government dispute over presidential powers and the Georgia-Russia conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2008
2nd September, 2008
The Foreign Ministry says it regrets the EU’s decision to suspend talks on a new partnership agreement with Russia. Moscow says the new deal is just as important to Europe as it is to Russia. The bloc has been split over its response to the conflict in South Ossetia. At Monday’s emergency summit in Brussels, EU leaders decided to halt talks on a new deal with Russia. The move was in response to Moscow’s role in the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia. But according to some members of the European parliament, the summit showed that the union is anything but united.
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