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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008
“They[the Europeans] were inspired by discussions and ideas voiced by the Russian president in Berlin,” Lavrov said. “They were genuinely interested in the initiative to work out an agreement on the common European security and to hold a summit on the issue.”
I don’t think these words will be music to the ears of Washington and London.
But the Russians are prepared to be generous:
“[ Medvedev] added that “organizations operating in the Euro-Atlantic region” could also join it.”
27th June, 2008
KHANTY-MANSIISK, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – None of the current European organizations, including the OSCE, the EU and NATO, is capable of solving Europe’s security problems, the Russian president said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2008
Whatever ideological differences exist between countries such as Venezuela, Russia or Iran, one overiding consideration unites them: the defence of their national sovereignty.
Venezuela hails ‘strategic partnership’ with Russia (Novosti)
27th June, 2008
MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – Relations between Venezuela and Russia have developed into a strategic partnership, the country’s vice president said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 26, 2008
The minutea of the diplomatic manouvering outlined below are well worth following: at some point, these processes will crystalise in a shift away from NATO influence and towards a greater role for regional powers in stabilising the Afghan situation.
By M K Bhadrakumar (Asia Times)
Moscow is staging an extraordinary comeback on the Afghan chessboard after a gap of two decades following the Soviet Union’s nine-year adventure that ended in the withdrawal of its last troops from Afghanistan 1989. In a curious reversal of history, this is possible only with the acquiescence of the United States. Moscow is taking advantage of the deterioration of the war in Afghanistan and the implications for regional security could be far-reaching.
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Posted by seumasach on June 25, 2008
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
Who rules the Heartland commands the world-island;
Who rules the world-island controls the world.”
This is the Mackinder doctrine, the foundation of Anglo-American supremacy: the inexorable convergence of Russia and Europe sounds the death-knell of that supremacy.
Click here for an earlier Novosti article on this question.
BRUSSELS, June 25 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union is seeking closer ties with Russia under President Dmitry Medvedev, the EU foreign policy supremo said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
Der Spiegel
23rd June, 2008
The opposition in Germany wants nuclear weapons out of the country following a report which says that some of those weapons may not be properly safeguarded.
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Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2008
By M K Bhadrakumar(Asia Times)
21st june, 2008
DELHI – The Middle East took a great leap forward this week to the post-George W Bush era. Israel’s dramatic shift of glance to the forces of political Islam sums it up. “Today we have concurrent peace negotiations with both the Syrians and the Palestinians and there is no logical reason why there should also not be talks with the Lebanese,” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman Mark Regev said in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2008
| Arthur Lepic
31 AUGUST 2004
The spectacular arrest of Mark Thatcher (British Iron Lady’s son) in South Africa and the confessions of his accomplices in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea clarified completely the fail coup against this country. The operation was not organized by adventurers or mercenaries paid by international financiers, but by NATO. The U.S. had mobilized the British and Spanish services to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang and take control of the country to build the largest gas-liquefying station of the world. By doing this, the U.S. would have taken the French oil company Total out of the market thus favoring Spanish Repsol. But France knew about the operation and made it fail.
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Posted by smeddum on June 21, 2008
20 June, 2008
EU Lifts Sanctions on Cuba (Granma)
BRUSSELS, June 19.— The European Union agreed Thursday to lift its sanctions against Cuba, informed EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, quoted by Reuters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by alfied on June 17, 2008
By Stephen Gowans
THERE is no evidence that the Government of Zimbabwe is using food “as a political tool to intimidate voters ahead of an election”, or that it is deliberately denying “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Zimbabweans” food aid, as Human Rights Watch and The New York Times allege.
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Posted by smeddum on June 15, 2008
Atlanta, GA 6/13/2008 10:18 PM GMT (FINDITT)
Mexico and Spain have called for the European Union to fully lift sanctions against Cuba, citing recent reforms by the communist-run government. Read the rest of this entry »
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