Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2017
8th September, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that Venezuela will be looking to “free” itself from the U.S. dollar next week, Reuters reports. According to the outlet, Maduro will look to use the weakest of two official foreign exchange regimes (essentially the way Venezuela will manage its currency in relation to other currencies and the foreign exchange market), along with a basket of currencies.
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Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2017
This report contains the highly significant conclusion that the USA is not adopting “leur rôle traditionnel en tant que leader dans l’Alliance ou tout au moins pas de manière fiable” [it’s traditional role as leader of the NATO Alliance, or. at least, not in a reliable manner]. As a consequence of this conclusion Germany seeks to take on the leadership role. Of course, a NATO not led by the USA is no longer NATO but something else: it appears it may become the foundation of an independent European defense capability.
7th September, 2017
Alors que la chancelière Merkel et le président Macron sont déjà convenus de gouverner ensemble l’Union européenne, le think tank officiel de l’Allemagne fédérale, la SWP, préconise que Berlin prenne le leadership militaire de l’Union et de l’Otan. Prenant acte de la position du président Trump qui limite l’influence états-unienne au sein de l’Alliance transatlantique, les experts gouvernementaux considèrent comme possible pour Berlin de prendre la tête de l’Otan face à la Russie en investissant massivement dans le développement de son armée et la création de forces multinationales.
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2017
Pepe Escobar
5th September, 2017
The annual BRICS summit in Xiamen – where President Xi Jinping was once mayor – could not intervene in a more incandescent geopolitical context.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2017
The Americans are in on this too so foreign secretary,Johnson, will be encouraged: is it the good old days with US/UK together again in a special relationship? Despite the seeming disarray is there life still the Brexit neo-imperialist project. Wherever there is still the hope of conflict and wrecking we will be in there.
4th September, 2017
Britain has declared that it will help to protect Nordic and Baltic states from Russia after Brexit.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2017
Trump’s threat has indeed changed the balance of forces in favor of Maduro as confirmed by James Petras. Are we really expected to believe that Trump was not aware of that reaction. Trump’s modus operandi is indeed most unusual but it has an underlying pattern: behind over-the-top, belligerent rhetoric moves are made against neocon, CIA interests. Put it another way: does anyone really believe Trump will intervene militarily in Venezuela?
Jason Ditz
13th August, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in tough shape this time last week. Public protests and violence have been soaring, the nation’s economy is on life support, and virtually all of the rest of Latin America is unified in opposing his recent attempts to consolidate power in his party.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2017
Robert Parry
25th August, 2017
Despite the chaos and ugliness of the past seven months, President Trump has finally begun to turn U.S. foreign policy away from the neoconservative approach of endless war against an ever-expanding roster of enemies.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2017
The Silk Road is reaching right into the US backyard
1st September, 2017
The People’s Republic of China is preparing to carry through with plans to invest a massive US$30 billion in developing Haiti’s infrastructure, including power plants, sanitation works, water systems, railways, affordable housing, and marketplaces, in an agreement that is expected to have a major social, economic, and developmental impact.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2017
2nd September, 2017
A stable European security architecture only can be built by involving Russia in the process, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She also called on the West to honor its obligations under treaties signed with Moscow. Despite current tensions between the West and Moscow, “we can establish a European peace order only with Russia,” the chancellor said in her Saturday video podcast published on the German government’s website. She went on to say that, “in the field of the European defense and security policy, we should do our best to improve our contact with Russia.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2017
Trump has undertaken a remarkable policy which consists of undermining key US alliances. He is effectively dismantling the US empire.
3rd September, 2017
Donald Trump has asked aides to prepare for US withdrawal from a free trade agreement with South Korea, it was reported on Saturday – a potentially stunning development at a time of tense confrontation with North Korea.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2017
1st September, 2017
DENPASAR, Indonesia — China is expected shortly to launch a crude oil futures contract priced in yuan and convertible into gold in what analysts say could be a game-changer for the industry.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2017
Trump’s anti-EU stance was merely a pose aimed at reinforcing his “take control of America” meme. and win an election. He doesn’t share the neocons obsession with breaking up the European Union and , most tellingly, he shows no interest whatsoever in even visiting the UK which initiated the nationalist revolution he is alleged to be pursuing. His attitude towards NATO is almost inviting the Europeans to pursue their own security interests. We are living through a period of great political confusion which due to an over-exageration of the importance of ideology.
1st September, 2017
DONALD TRUMP and Brexit have strengthened the European Union, according to a former Italian Prime Minister who said Britain’s EU divorce would lead to the break up of the Brussels project.
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