Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
New World Order at Stake of US-Russia Geopolitical Competition – Political Analyst
1st August, 2014
The confrontation between Moscow and Washington over the Ukrainian internal strife will doubtlessly shift the global balance of power, believes Dmitri Trenin, a well-known Russian political scientist, author, and the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
1st August, 2014
On the heels of the announcement that Wendy’s will be leaving the Russian market, consumers may face the loss of their favorite meals at an even more popular American fast food chain. Russian authorities are pursuing investigations into the cheese used by McDonald’s restaurants as well as allegations that the company misrepresented the nutritional information in its products.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
The Great Game Round-Up
3rd Augiust, 2014
In recent weeks, China has introduced a number of extreme measures, such as banning matches and imposing airline-like restrictions on bus passengers, to prevent further terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. Although the one-year-long anti-terror campaign is in full swing and countless suspects have been imprisoned, there is no end in sight to the violence, as demonstrated by several incidents this week. On Monday, “dozens of people” were killed or injured in what has been described as a “premeditated terror attack” by local police. Since the Chinese authorities have tried to release as few information as possible, it is still not exactly clear what happened in Yarkant County in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture. According to several reports, a group of assailants armed with knives and axes attacked a police station and government offices in the town of Elixhu, with some later moving on to the town of Huangdi. A source told the Global Times that the attack occurred after police officers foundsuspicious explosives and other reports confirmed that the incident began when a group of Uyghurs impeded a police investigation:
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
Western Sanctions on Russia Aimed at Humiliating Moscow – Ex-French Minister
4th August, 2014
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) — Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the civil war in Ukraine are “totally absurd” and aim at humiliating Moscow which is opposite to what the United States really needs, said Luc Ferry, the French political philosopher and former minister of education, in an exclusive interview with Radio VR.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
“A humanitarian corridor to Russia”. But I thought Russia was the enemy, the source of all the problems
4th August, 2014
Rostov-on-Don – Over 400 Ukrainian troops have asked Russian border guards to open a humanitarian corridor to Russia, Vasily Malayev, and an official with the Russian Federal Security Service Department for the Rostov region, told Interfax.
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2014
UN Conclusions Disprove Claims Against Russia Over Ukrainian Crisis – Moscow
1st August, 2014
MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday that recent remarks by the top UN human rights official shed doubt on claims of Russia’s direct involvement inescalation of the Ukrainian crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st August, 2014
Ignore the thug for the present and instead thrash his sidekick to send across the message first — that’s a moribund cold-war era method, which Russia may just have resuscitated by notifying that it is suspending the import of fruits and vegetables from Poland with effect from today, while similar measures are being contemplated against the European Union countries as a whole.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2014
Dominique de Villepin
31st July, 2014
Lever la voix face au massacre qui est perpétré à Gaza, c’est aujourd’hui, je l’écris en conscience, un devoir pour la France, une France qui est attachée indéfectiblement à l’existence et à la sécurité d’Israël mais qui ne saurait oublier les droits et devoirs qui sont conférés à Israël en sa qualité d’État constitué. Je veux dire à tous ceux qui sont tentés par la résignation face à l’éternel retour de la guerre qu’il est temps de parler et d’agir. Il est temps de mesurer l’impasse d’une France alignée et si sûre du recours à la force. Pour lever le voile des mensonges, des omissions et des demi-vérités. Pour porter un espoir de changement. Par mauvaise conscience, par intérêt mal compris, par soumission à la voix du plus fort, la voix de la France s’est tue, celle qui faisait parler le général de Gaulle au lendemain de la guerre des Six-Jours, celle qui faisait parler Jacques Chirac après la deuxième intifada. Comment comprendre aujourd’hui que la France appelle à la «retenue» quand on tue des enfants en connaissance de cause? Comment comprendre que la France s’abstienne lorsqu’il s’agit d’une enquête internationale sur les crimes de guerre commis des deux côtés? Comment comprendre que la première réaction de la France, par la voix de son président, soit celle du soutien sans réserve à la politique de sécurité d’Israël? Quelle impasse pour la France que cet esprit d’alignement et de soutien au recours à la force.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2014
Putin, Obama Welcome Results of Ukraine Contact Group Meeting in Minsk
1st August, 2014
MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama on Friday voiced satisfaction with the results of a recent Minsk meeting of international mediators on the Ukrainian crisis, the Kremlin said.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2014
Cailean Bochanan
2nd August, 2014
Fresh from their unanimous vote supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza, Congress are now gunning for war with Russia. This is the clear sense of resolution S.2277 :
“To prevent further Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other sovereign states in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes.”
Particularly ominous is the clause granting special non-NATO ally status to Ukraine, although it’s difficult to keep a straight face while reading it: conditions for bestowal of this status include respect for “the political and legal rights of its citizens, including maintaining the right of its citizens to democratically elect their government.”
Still, we must be clear that this act is not a laughing matter. Congressional members, basically the representatives of the lobbies, the US oligarchy, may be clowns but they deserve to be taken seriously in as far as they are beating the drums for war and more war. According to Paul Craig Roberts this legislation will be passed and I have no reason to doubt his judgement on that.
The methods employed by Israel and the Kiev regime are remarkably similar, being little more than terroristic assaults on defenseless civilians. Congress’ gleeful cheerleading of both campaigns confirms in a timely manner that the same forces are at play in both cases. Whilst Israel’s form on this front is only too familiar, most of us were unfamiliar with the Stepan Bandera’s World War Two terror exploits. which include Babi Yar, and his reincarnation in the midst of contemporary European civilization, such as it is, has been a bit of a surprise. It only goes to show that America’s wars teach us history as well as geography!
The good news is that there is an air of desperation about this particular move stemming from strong indications that all is not well on the Eastern front. Huge losses, mass desertions and now a burgeoning anti-war campaign in the West of Ukraine, as well as imminent bankruptcy, have put the regimes survival at risk. At the same time the propaganda war is a cascading disaster with the State Department continuing its hilarious briefings and, seemingly, counter-briefings from the Pentagon such as when they leaked that Ukraine had used ballistic missiles.
Can Congress, the Military Industrial Complex, the Neo-Cons and the Deep State, in short, the War Party, bounce the Commander-in-chief and the military into one final catastrophic war? Will the European vassals fall into line. The stakes could not be greater. The War Party fears peace. Do we want it enough to take our destiny in our own hands?
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2014
Antiwar protests spreading in Ukraine as gov’t wages all-out war in the southeast and NATO threatens Russia
31st July, 2014
A rising wave of antiwar and anti-conscription protest is taking place in cities and towns across western Ukraine. The protests are prompted by the announcement of Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko ten days ago that a “third” military mobilization is now required for the war that his governing regime began waging against the population of eastern Ukraine three months ago. Kyiv calls the war an ‘anti-terrorist operation’.
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In These New Times 