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BAE-EADS: Angela Merkel blamed for collapse of £28bn merger

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2012

The wider geo-strategic background to this is that Britain has no intention of becoming part of Federal Europe and would inhibit any projected independent European defence capability

Guardian

11th October, 2012

The €35bn (£28bn) mega-merger between BAE Systems andEADS collapsed as a result of personal opposition from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and despite a series of 11th-hour interventions from Downing Street officials and their counterparts in Paris and Berlin attempting to keep the deal alive.

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Lavrov: We will defend UN Charter while solving crisis in Syria

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2012

SANA

11th October, 2012

MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, stressed on Wednesday that Russia will defend the principles of the UN Charter regarding solving the crisis in Syria and settling the Iranian nuclear file.

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Russia warns NATO against prolonged stay in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2012

PressTV

11th October, 2012

Russia has warned that it will stop cooperating with NATO in Afghanistan after 2014 unless the Western military alliance gets UN Security Council authorization for a new mission in the war-torn country.

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Australian foreign minister suggests “assassination” of Syrian leaders

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2012

WSWS

11th October, 2012

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has suggested that high-level Syrian government figures could be assassinated as part of the US-backed civil war to oust President Bashir al-Assad. Carr’s remarks underscore the reckless and illegal character of the US-led regime change operation underway in Syria, taking place with the full support of the Australian Labor government.

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Towards a Western retreat from Syria

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2012

“BEFORE OUR VERY EYES”

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

9th October, 2012

The Syria war drags on. Continuing it has become too expensive and too dangerous for its neighbors. Russia, which aims to re-establish itself in the Middle East, is trying to show the United States that it is in their best interest to allow Moscow to resolve the conflict.

The military situation in Syria is turning against those in Washington and Brussels who hoped to change the regime there by force. Two successive attempts to take Damascus have failed and it has become clear that that objective cannot be achieved.

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Anti-war protest in Istanbul

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2012

Voltairenet

9th October, 2012

For several months, impressive demonstrations against the war with Syria have taken place in Turkey, but only in the Arabic or Kurdish regions. On Thursday, 4 October 2012, for the first time, a massive demonstration streamed through Istanbul shouting “This war is not ours!”

The choice of the Erdogan government to join NATO’s operations against Libya, and to support the covert war against Syria has brutally Turkey’s stunted its economic growth.

Quite apart from the economic difficulties flogging the whole of society, certain sectors of the population feel particularly sympathetic towards the Syrian people and the regime in Damascus. This applies especially to one million Arabs, 15 million Kurds and an equal number of Alevis.

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Russia bridges Middle Eastern divides

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2012

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

11th October, 2012

A multi-billion dollar arms deal with Iraq, a summit meeting with Turkey, a fence-mending exercise with Saudi Arabia, a debut with Egypt’s Sphinx-like Muslim Brothers – all this is slated to happen within the period of a turbulent month in the Middle East. And all this is to happen when the United States’ “return” to the region after the hurly-burly of the November election still seems a distant dream. Simply put, Russia is suddenly all over the Middle East.

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Iran Cmdr.: US uses terrorists to wage cheap wars

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2012

PressTV

10th October, 2012

A senior Iranian commander calls it a US tactic to use terrorists for cheap warfare, commenting on the State Department’s recently removing the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group from its list of terrorist organizations.

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UN censures Canada for violation of children’s rights

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2012

PressTV

10th October, 2012

The United Nations has censured the Canadian government for its gross violations of the rights of children and has accused the country of “serious and widespread discrimination” against First Nations children

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Siege of Bani Walid

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

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Debout l’Europe

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

Jean Paul Baquiast
Jean-Claude Empereur

Europe Solidaire

5th October, 2012

Nous avons toujours ici défendu le projet d’une véritable Europe fédérale, s’inspirant (en simplifiant beaucoup) de la constitution des Etats-Unis d’Amérique. Ce projet semblait devenu inaudible ces derniers mois.

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