Posted by smeddum on July 27, 2008
Race and History
Herald Reporter-AFP.
July 26, 2008
The Herald
BORDEAUX. THE ongoing talks between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations have softened the European Union’s stance on Zimbabwe and has now thrown its weight behind President Thabo Mbeki’s mediation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2008
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Oleg Mityayev) – Many analysts expected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who visited Moscow on July 22, to sign new agreements in military-technical cooperation, but this did not happen.
Instead, a number of Russian oil giants signed promising contracts with Venezuela. They would replace their American counterparts, previously ousted by Hugo Chavez.
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Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2008
The USA looks on, helplessly, at a counter-globalisation process of nations collaborating for mutual security and benefit in the face of the fading empire.
23rd July
The US State Department has rebuked Russia’s decision to sell a package of sophisticated arms, worth 2 billion dollars, to Venezuela. The US government says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not truly need the weapons and has high ambitions that “go beyond his country’s defensive needs,” according to DPA news agency. |
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Posted by smeddum on July 22, 2008
Asian Times
By Hossein Askari
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to the Israeli parliament, talking of peace and vowing to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. United States President George W Bush promises to protect US allies in the Middle East from external aggression. French President Nicholas Sarkozy assures Israel of his country’s unflinching support and protection to live in peace.
Western leaders pledge their opposition to nuclear proliferation and promise to protect all countries from attack; they declare a goal of peace and stability in the Middle East, and promise to
work tirelessly for a more democratic Middle East that embraces the rule of law. This is what they say. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2008
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The Medvedev proposal
by F. William Engdahl
22nd July, 2008
Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the current US Presidential campaign, aside from the studied avoidance of any serious proposals to address the worst economic depression since the 1930’s, is the fact that both major party candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, have to date been stone silent on the most pressing issue of future war or peace, namely the steps taken by the Bush-Cheney Administration to encircle Russia with a new Iron Curtain of NATO member states, including strenuous efforts to push Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, and to establish an advanced nuclear missile defense system which, from a standpoint of military strategy, far from defense, puts the world on a hair-trigger to nuclear holocaust in the few years ahead. |
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2008
“The Venezuelan president urged members of the recent PetroCaribe summit to set up IMF-independent financial institutions with such countries as Russia, Belarus, China, India and Iran.”
To begin with, Chavez just kept going back for more and more Kalashnikovs: now he’s flirting with the idea of a completely new financial architecture for the world.
21st July, 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives in Moscow with an official visit. The Venezuelans leader is going to discuss issues of arms shipments, the energy market cooperation, as well as questions regarding the establishment of a Russian-Venezuelan bank.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th July, 2008
Last week, the gloves finally came off the Dmitry Medvedev presidency in Russia. It had to happen sooner or later, but few would have expected this soon. It was crystal clear US President George W Bush administered a diplomatic snub to Medvedev on the sidelines of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Hokkaido, Japan.
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Posted by smeddum on July 16, 2008
Last Rites For The
American Empire
By Karl Schwarz Rense.com
7-14-8
As I start this article, I want to thank Ret LTC Karen Kwiatkowski, now Dr. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, (congratulations, Karen) for reminding me of a quote that I read about 30 years ago and had completely forgotten about it. She has an excellent article posted on LewRockwell.com titled “Will the Antiwar Movement Strangle the State?”
There is a quote below that is in her article but it needed to be included in this one, too.
Americans need to read it, think, and come to grips with the gravity of the situation. And after they have done that, they need to get off their asses and do something to stop this madness.
Our Forefathers would declare war on Washington, DC. Of that, I am certain.
They would not tolerate or put up with the self-appointed royalty in Washington, DC and their lunacy and warmongering for even a month, much less the last 8 years of George W Bush/Big Dick Cheney’s warmongering insanity, and prior to that the 8 years of pure crap with Clinton and, thank God, just 4 years of that babbling warmongering elitist fool, George H W Bush. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2008
MOSCOW, July 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated Wednesday a proposal to hold a pan-European summit to draw up a common security treaty.
Medvedev received Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in the Kremlin, where they discussed common European security, especially in the face of U.S. plans to deploy missile defense in Central Europe.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2008
IRNA
14th July,2008
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday predicted end of the US empire saying that the world countries should get ready for a situation when the US hegemony perishes.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2008
Whitehall watchers will be seeing all this as evidence of emerging fissures in the monolithic face of British establishment power,part of which, at least ,has the sense to see that the now fragile glass house of UK PLC is not the place to start a campaign of stone-throwing against all and sundry. Dissidents, however, are not tolerated in our great democracy. See Craig Murray’s blog for more on the campaign against MacKinlay.
12th July 2008
A Labour MP who infuriated Downing Street by meeting a Russian spy for tea in the Commons has been praised by the Kremlin for attacking MI5.
Andrew MacKinlay – who was carpeted by Labour Chief Whip Geoff Hoon for his meetings with Alexander Polyakov – is calling for British security services to be ‘brought under control’ for claiming there are too many Russian spies in the UK.
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In These New Times 