Posted by seumasach on March 8, 2013
Christof Lehmann
8th March, 2013
Foreign dignitaries have arrived in Caracas to honor the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his work at his funeral during the morning hours in Caracas today, and to express their condolences to the people of Venezuela.
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Posted by seumasach on March 7, 2013
Germany says EU right not to arm Syria rebels, risks too high
7th March, 2013
LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union was right not to arm anti-government fighters in Syria as doing so would risk regional “conflagration”, Germany said on Thursday, highlighting divisions in the region over how to handle the Syrian crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on March 7, 2013
UN condemns seizure of peacekeepers by Syria militants in Golan Heights
6th March, 2013
The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the seizure of the UN peacekeepers in the occupied Golan Heights by foreign-backed Syrian militants.
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Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2013
5th March, 2013
Britain will have to withdraw from the United Nations as well as the European court of human rights if it wants to deport terrorist suspects to states that carry out torture, the country’s most senior judge has warned.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
The two leaders made the pledge to work closely on a “mutually beneficial relationship,” agreeing that the partnership between the two countries “has principal significance for ensuring stability in the world.”
1st March, 2013
Russia and the US agreed to avoid “negative steps” that could threaten bilateral relations as the two countries’ presidents held their first phone conversation since Barack Obama’s re-election.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
28th february, 2013
There was a bygone era that ended a little over four years ago when it used to be said that the Kremlin used energy as a “geopolitical tool”. The threat perception propagated by cold warriors in the United States principally aimed at cautioning Europe against its rising energy dependency on Russian supplies.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2013
The meaning of the Hagel confirmation battle
Justin Raimondo
27th February, 2013
A recent poll showed most Americans didn’t know enough about Chuck Hagel to have an opinion on his confirmation as Secretary of Defense. You’d never know that, however, with all the drama emanating from Washington on the subject. So did all that sound and fury signify nothing?
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2013
After Unprecedented Fight, Hagel Confirmed as Obama’s Pentagon Chief
Jim Lobe
27th February, 2013
WASHINGTON – Ending a long and controversial battle, the US Senate Tuesday voted 58-41 to confirm former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defense.
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
25th February, 2013
An unusual visitor arrived in Moscow last Tuesday – President of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq Massoud Barzani. The Kurds played it up as Barzani’s “first official visit” to Russia. Moscow called it a “working visit” but nonetheless embellished the official trappings – President Vladimir Putin received him at the Kremlin on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on February 24, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
21st February, 2013
“What If?” histories are a good read. They are entertaining, and they provoke thought and encourage the imagination. How different the world would be if different judgments, decisions, and circumstances had prevailed at history’s turning points. Certainly English history would have been different if King Harold’s soldiers had obeyed his order not to pursue the defeated fleeing Normans down the hill. This broke the impenetrable Saxon shield wall and exposed King Harold to Norman cavalry. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Battle_of_Hastings
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Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2013
23rd February, 2013
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party Kemal Kilicdaroglu has described as “grave mistake” the policy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan toward Syria.
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