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KIEV (AFP) – The party of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko decided to quit the pro-Western governing coalition on Wednesday, plunging Ukraine into a new political crisis as relations with Russia worsened.
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Ukraine’s pro-Western government on brink of collapse
Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2008
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SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH GERHARD SCHRÖDER: ‘Serious Mistakes by the West’
Posted by alfied on September 2, 2008
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discusses the war in the Caucasus, the possibility of Germany serving as an intermediary in the conflict and his belief in a constructive role for Russia Read the rest of this entry »
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The SCO’s Rising Power
Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2008
Alexander Lukin
2nd September, 2008
One of most discussed aspects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Dushanbe over the weekend was the third point of the summit declaration devoted to the situation in South Ossetia. Although member nations expressed “deep concern” over the tensions surrounding this issue, they also pledged to “support Russia’s active role in facilitating peace and cooperation in the region.”
Immediately following the signing of that declaration, the Western media began an intense and deliberate disinformation campaign to try to depict the position of SCO countries as not supporting Russia’s policy toward Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Steinmeier Tells EU to Take “Level-Headed” Approach to Russia
Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2008
31st August, 2008
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Europe must play a “strong and level-headed role” to settle the conflict in the Caucasus, according to a German newspaper published Sunday.
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Catatonia: the last stage of imperialism
Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
31st August, 2008
The events in Georgia and the irrational wave of Russophobia which have followed it mark a new, last phase of US/UK imperialism. Sakashvili’s bizarre and vicious assault on South Ossetia, conducted presumably under US auspices, may seem to herald a stepping up of US/UK interventionism and power projection. Paradoxically, in my view, it represents the complete opposite: a retreat into isolation comparable to that of a paranoic whose psychotic outbursts only confirm the essential, underlying withdrawal from human intercourse. Sakashvili’s dangerous antics don’t constitute a foreign policy any more than bombing weddings does.
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Support for Russia at SCO Summit
Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2008
Vladimir Radyuhin
29th August, 2008
United stand: (From left) Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Hu Jintao (China), Kurmanbek Bakiyev (Kyrgyzstan), Emomali Rakhmon (Tajikistan), Dmitry Medvedev (Russia) and Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan) in Dushanbe on Thursday.
MOSCOW: Russia has won crucial support for its peace efforts in South Ossetia from China and other allies in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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Putin: Russia won’t be isolated
Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2008
Russia will not be isolated because it protected its citizens and upheld its peacekeeping mission, the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. In an interview on German TV, Putin suggested that if Russia had not responded to Georgian aggression, there could have been a tragedy along the scale of what happened in the former Yugoslavia.
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“Confrontation with Russia could make Iraq a more dangerous place for the occupation army”
Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
Jordanian left writer Nahid Hattar says in an op-ed in AlArab alYaum the new confrontation between Russia and America will have an impact on Arab affairs, resulting from greater Russian militancy, and he lists some of the areas where he thinks there could be changes: (1) Russian destruction of a Georgian airbase was a warning to America against attacking Russian ally Iran over its nuclear program; (2) Syria will be strengthened in its relations with Israel and with Lebanon; (3) moreover domestically, Syria will probably become less captive to the privatization/capitalist movement; (4) and it won’t be possible to talk any more about disarming Hizbullah or altering the internal Lebanese dynamics. And Hamas will be stronger.
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Russia remains a Black Sea power
Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
“The Montreal Convention assures the free passage of Russian warships through the Straits of Bosphorous. Under the circumstances, NATO’s grandiose schemes to occupy the Black Sea as its private lake seem outlandish now. There must be a lot of egg on the faces of the NATO brains in Brussels and their patrons in Washington and London.”
The reason being , as we have been at pains to point out, that the whole Georgia operation, from the US point of view, was concerned, not with the realities of geopolitics but with saving the knecks of Cheney and co. It may seem remarkable that thousands of lives were sacrificed, a key US ally was humiliated and all foreign policy rationality abandoned just to save a few war criminals from the dock, but such is the reality of politics at the end of empire.
M K Bhadrakumar
30th August, 2008
If the struggle in the Caucasus was ever over oil and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) agenda towards Central Asia, the United States suffered a colossal setback this week. Kazakhstan, the Caspian energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player, has decided to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia’s de facto control over two major Black Sea ports has been consolidated.
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The role of the United States in Europe
Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
29 August 2008
Christopher King argues that Europe is now at a juncture at which it must choose between the US and its lies, propaganda and military threats or a mutually-beneficial and prosperous relationship with Russia.
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Militarism and a Uni-polar World
Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2008
by Lenora Foerstel
Global Research, August 26, 2008
The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently became the founding chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Soon the membership of the Commission had grown to 300 members, including prominent political figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most members of the Trilateral Commission are bankers, media moguls, or corporate CEOs, primarily from North America, Europe and Japan, while all members of the CFR are U.S. Citizens. Read the rest of this entry »
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