Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2014
The publication of this article could be a key moment in this unfolding crisis. It reveals not only German self-interest but German self-awareness, the latter a much rarer commodity amongst today’s nations.
Gabor Steingart
Handelsblatt
9th August, 2014
Düsseldorf. Every war is accompanied by a kind of mental mobilization: war fever. Even smart people are not immune to controlled bouts of this fever. “This war in all its atrociousness is still a great and wonderful thing. It is an experience worth having“ rejoiced Max Weber in 1914 when the lights went out in Europe. Thomas Mann felt a “cleansing, liberation, and a tremendous amount of hope“.
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Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2014
NKI BRICS-LEAP meeting in Paris (27/07/2014)
LEAP 2020
4th August, 2014
On July 27th, in Paris, as part of the Euro-BRICS project, representatives of NKI BRICS and LEAP met in order to discuss interesting perspectives of cooperation. NKI-BRICS’ website reports:
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Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2014
The Ukraine situation is now become a farce. Having burnt their boats with Russia they burn their boats with Europe. The poor, inept Europeans get bite-back from their fascist proteges
RT
8th August, 2014
Ukraine ready to impose sanctions against any transit via its territory, including air flights and gas supplies to Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2014
BRICS Post
7th Augiust, 2014
Russia’s BRICS partner, Brazil has said it would step up to fill in the void of chicken imports to Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning certain food imports from countries that have sanctioned Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2014
Tires Ablaze on Kiev’s Central Maidan Square, New Clashes Possible
RIANovosti
7th August, 2014
KIEV, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Tires have been set ablaze and sounds similar to an explosion have been heard in Kiev’s central Maidan Square, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2014
LEAP 2020
27th July, 2014
When the BRIC launched their own club in 2009[1], their goal was pretty simple: to provide a group strong enough to initiate and drive the reform of the global governance institutions. This dynamic alliance intended to pursue their adjustment to the new realities of a multi-polar world in which they were the main actors : to reconcile voting weight and financial participation in the IMF[2] and the World Bank, to integrate the constraints of the new powers in this WTO[3]“philosophy” and to involve the dollar in a basket of currencies of significant world economies in order to create a new international trading currency, a stronger and more representative[4] one…
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2014
This appears to confirm a major shift in Saudi policy away from support for Islamist groups
Trust.org
6th August, 2014
RIYADH, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has granted $1 billion in aid to Lebanese armed forces, state news agency SPA said, as they battle Islamist militants who seized a border town in the worst spillover yet from Syria’s three-year-old civil war.
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Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2014
Jean-Paul Baquiast
Vineyard of the Saker
2nd August, 2014
L’Argentine a été invitée à la dernière réunion des BRICS à Fortaleza, du 14 au 16 juillet 2014. A cette occasion, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Présidente de l’Argentine, n’a pas évoqué, sauf à mots couverts, le défaut de paiement qui menaçait son pays. L’occasion aurait cependant été bonne pour elle de dénoncer le jeu des spéculateurs américains (notamment les fameux fonds vautours), soutenus par la législation des États-Unis, qui s’acharnent sur un pays fragile.
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Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2014
“Toujours selon le quotidien «Sueddeutsche Zeitung», des diplomates allemands à Bruxelles auraient également affirmé que si l’accord de libre-échange avec le Canada était rejeté, celui avec les États-Unis subirait vraisemblablement le même sort.”
[According to the «Sueddeutsche Zeitung», German diplomats in Brussels alsao affirmed that if the free trade deal with Canada was rejected , that with the USA would meet with the same fate]
L’Allemagne rejetterait l’accord de libre-échange
Metro
27th July, 2014
MONTRÉAL – L’Allemagne serait sur le point de rejeter l’accord de libre-échange conclu entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (UE) l’an dernier, a révélé samedi un quotidien allemand.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
4th August, 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn big criticism from the United States on account of the firm stand India took at the World Trade Organization negotiations, insisting that its concerns about food security needed to be accommodated if India were to go along with the so-called trade facilitation agreement. Overnight the smile has vanished from Uncle Sam’s face.
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