Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2010
M. K. Bhadrakumar
Oct 11 2010
The Kremlin seems to factor in that a strong relationship with China can only strengthen its leverage as an emerging power during negotiations with the U.S. and the West. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2010
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| October 12, 2010
It’s easy to say and easy to document, but quite difficult to really internalize, that the United States is in the process of imperial collapse. Every now and then, however, one encounters certain facts which compellingly and viscerally highlight how real that is. Here’s the latest such fact, from a new study in Health Affairs by Columbia Health Policy Professors Peter A. Muennig and Sherry A. Glied (h/t): Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2010
13th October, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, is the 40th forging anniversary of Sino-Canadian diplomatic ties, which is worthy of much celebration and expectation. Bilateral relations have gone through a splendid journey with eminent successes made over the past 40 years. In fact, the history of Sino-Canadian relations has already traversed over a century.
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2010
13th October, 2010
The French foreign minister on Tuesday said that the European Union could be “real” for Turkey if necessary reforms were carried out, adding that the ball is in Turkey’s court. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who is on an official visit to Turkey, said Turkey needed to carry out a number of reforms for talks on three negotiation chapters to begin.
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2010
“The initial feedback we’re getting is that this is something the government should be very happy to see, which is the return of American capital into our country so that we can use it to create high-paying American jobs and also reduce oil imports a few years down the road.”
12th October, 2010
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Let’s build a geostrategic partnership with China!
State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.
With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, CNOOC lays claim to a share of properties that eventually could produce up to half a million barrels a day of oil equivalent.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
12th October, 2010
Unilateral sanctions against Iran by the EU threaten the Nabucco pipeline project to bring natural gas from the Caspian region to Europe, a German paper reports.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
11th October, 2010
“Based on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), proliferation of nuclear weapons should be prevented. There is a main question in the Muslim world that where the Zionist regime [of Israel] has obtained its nuclear weapons from,” the IRIB quoted Jalili as saying on Monday.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: Israeli nuclear menace, nuclear free middle east | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
Tiberio Graziani
9th October, 2010
Defeated during the Second World War, occupied by the United States after its liberation, integrated into NATO by force during the Cold War, compelled to dissolve into the European Union, Italy is today a prisoner of its past while international relations are speeding ahead. According to Tiberio Graziani, even though Rome may not yet be in a position to frame an independent foreign policy, the time is ripe to start contemplating an exit strategy in keeping with its historical and geographical characteristics. Italy feels the call of its natural environment … the wide Mediterranean sea.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
F.William Engdahl
6th October, 2010
The embattled Euro has gotten a surprise boost from an unexpected quarter―China. The country with the world’s largest foreign exchange currency reserves, China, has pledged to support Greek debt as well as the Euro in what is clearly a geopolitical decision. In doing so, China has signaled it seeks to prevent the US financial warfare attack on Europe and to play the EU off against the USA in a geopolitical chess game of a fascinating dimension.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
Webster Tarpley
11th October, 2010
In the last phase of the election campaign, an issue has emerged which allows voters to separate Wall Street stooges in both parties from real advocates of the middle class. The issue is the massive campaign of foreclosures against the American middle class being carried out by Wall Street zombie bankers who owe their very existence to taxpayer bailouts. Since the world derivatives panic began in 2007, millions of homes each year have been seized by the Wall Street predators, sometimes under the legal color provided by adjustable rate mortgages and, as has now been revealed, often using completely illegal paperwork to throw average Americans and their families out on the street and frequently into poverty and destitution.
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: fight foreclosures | Leave a Comment »
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