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CSTO allowed to deploy “blue chapkas” in Syria under UN mandate

Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2012

Voltairenet

28th September, 2012

The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolay Bordyuzha, and the UN Deputy Secretary General in charge of Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 28 September 2012 in New York.

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Syrie : La vérité, toute la vérité et rien que la vérité.

Posted by seumasach on September 29, 2012

Syrie : La vérité, toute la vérité et rien que la vérité..

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Syria internal opposition urges peaceful solution to end unrest

Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2012

PressTV

23rd September, 2012

Members of Syria’s internal opposition are holding a conference in the capital Damascus to find ways to end months of bloody unrest in the country.

The meeting dubbed the “Syria Salvation Conference” was organized by the National Coordination Body (NCB). Iranian, Russian and Chinese envoys also attended the Friday meeting.

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USS Romney goes Titanic

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

20th September, 2012

Willard “Mitt” Romney comfortably sees himself as the chief executive officer of a US$1 billion enterprise – the Republican Party election campaign that should place him as the next President of the United States (POTUS). Meanwhile, current POTUS Barack Obama is increasingly convinced he just needs to deploy a secret weapon to clinch re-election.

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Federal Reserve has already started QE3, says investor Jim Rogers

Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2012

Telegraph

3rd September, 2012

Mr Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, believes that America’s central bank is secretly printing money to avoid “getting egg on their face again” after previous attempts to kickstart the faltering economy with $2 trillion of QE failed.

“I do not know if they [the Fed] will announce it,” he told India’sEconomic Times. “I know they are going to print more money. They already are. If you look at their balance sheets, you will see that something is happening, assets are building on their balance sheets and they are not coming from the tooth fairy.

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Russias geo-strategic ways – Orthodox Warrior

Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012

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Iran urges NAM to launch alternative media bloc

Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012

PressTV

1st September, 2012

Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarghami has called on the Non-Aligned Movement to establish an alternative media bloc in the face of the West’s mainstream media mafia.

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Roman Abramovich wins court battle with Boris Berezovsky

Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012

Berezovsky, she concluded, was not credible. “On my analysis of the entirety of the evidence, I found Mr Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes.

“At times the evidence which he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his evidence up as he went along in response to the perceived difficulty in answering the questions in a manner consistent with his case.

“At other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events. On occasions he tried to avoid answering questions by making long and irrelevant speeches, or by professing to have forgotten facts which he had been happy to record in his pleadings or witness statements.”

Guardian

31st August

The Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich, has won a high court action against his rival Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky over a disputed £3bn debt.

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NAM resolved to nullify unipolar world order: Iran official

Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012

Mehmanparast pointed to NAM’s discussion on the Syrian crisis and noted that all the members of the NAM agreed upon a number of points on Syria, including opposing any foreign interference in Syria and sanctions against the country and supporting the efforts of the UN-Arab League’s new peace envoy to Syria. 

PressTV

31st August, 2012

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman reaffirms the Non-Aligned Movement’s (NAM) determination to transform the world’s unipolar structure and establish a global management system based on justice, Press TV reports.

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Turkey peculiarly absent from Tehran

Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012

Kaveh Afrasiabi

Asia Times

28th August, 2012

 

Ankara has decided to boycott this week’s Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran, which has been much maligned in the Western media despite the summit’s potential to contribute to mediation efforts on the conflict in Syria. By all indications, this decision reflects a low point in Turkish foreign policy.

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The Iran-India-Afghanistan riddle

Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012

Vijay Prashad

Asia Times

28th August, 2012

 

At the sidelines of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran, Iran, the governments of Afghanistan, India and Iran will hold a small conclave. Commercial issues are at the top of the agenda. Not far down the list, however, are significant political matters. These are of great interest as the Israelis and the United States power up their aircraft for a bombing raid on Iran’s Fordo nuclear bunker, and as the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) begin their obligatory withdrawal from more than a decade-long occupation in Afghanistan.

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