Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2015
Ron Paul
Gobal Research
20th April, 2015
Last week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important thing in common: they were either part of or friendly with the Yanukovych government, which a US-backed coup overthrew last year. They include members of the Ukrainian parliament and former chief editors of major opposition newspapers.
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Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2015
Top Italian Daily Breaks Western Media Silence on Political Murders in Kie
Sputnik
17th April, 2015
April 17, (Sputnik) – In an unusually frank assessment by mainstream Western media of Kiev’s post-Maidan regime, the Italian daily La Repubblica has denounced “a ruthless sweeping away of every form of political opposition taking place in Kiev”. The paper was reacting to yet another assassination in Ukraine — this time of a popular journalist Oles Buzina on April 16.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2015
RT
18th April, 2015
Russia is planning to pay Greece large a multibillion advance against future profits from operating a gas pipeline that would pump Russian fuel through Turkey and Greece to the rest of Southern Europe, German magazine Spiegel reported.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2015
New Cold War
16th April, 2015
A top military adviser and former head of Poland’s armed forces has told Gazeta Prawna news in Poland that he has “completely withdrawn” his previous views favoring providing more military assistance and political support to the government of Ukraine. General Waldemar Skrzypczak spoke to the newspaper briefly on April 16. On April 17, Gazeta Prawna will publish a feature interview with him.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2015
“Step by step we do everything possible to create a common economic area – as Russian President Vladimir Putin once said – from Vladivostok to Lisbon,” she said.
Sputnik
18th April, 2015
The German chancellor said Germany is interested in economic cooperation with Russia, despite the current political differences between the two countries.
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Posted by seumasach on April 15, 2015
Oil-Rich Nations Are Selling Off Their Petrodollar Assets at Record Pace
GEAB(Source: Bloomberg)
April, 2015
In the heady days of the commodity boom, oil-rich nations accumulated billions of dollars in reserves they invested in U.S. debt and other securities. They also occasionally bought trophy assets, such as Manhattan skyscrapers, luxury homes in London or Paris Saint-Germain Football Club.
Now that oil prices have dropped by half to $50 a barrel, Saudi Arabia and other commodity-rich nations are fast drawing down those “petrodollar” reserves. Some nations, such as Angola, are burning through their savings at a record pace, removing a source of liquidity from global markets.
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Posted by seumasach on April 15, 2015
How the Common Market of the South and the Eurasian Union defy the United States and the hegemony of the dollar
Voltairenet
20th March, 2015
The economic containment strategies against Moscow and Caracas stimulated by Washington hasted the reconfiguration of alliances in the world system. Although Russia is geographically located in the northern hemisphere, its diplomatic agenda shows more connection to that of emerging economies. The same is happening in Latin American countries. According to the Russian chancellor, Serguey Lavrov, Latin America is called on to become a centrepiece in the development of a multipolar world order.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2015
Off Guardian
11th April, 2015
Russian military intervention in Ukraine is a myth, General Christophe Gomart, France’s Military Intelligence Head has said.
As reported by RT, General Gomart made his explosive comments in a parliamentary hearing on the Ukrainian crisis. He questioned NATO’s claims of Russia preparing to attack Ukraine as French agents failed to spot any activities signaling this – either before or after the crisis began.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2015
“The investment is a strategically important beginning for our exploration in the European market,” Li Huaizhen, Minsheng’s CEO, said in Shanghai
Telegraph
15th February, 2015
A Chinese investment firm has announced it is to invest £1bn in a homegrown development project to create a third financial district in east London.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
13th April, 2015
The integration of Iran into the international community is expected to be the last frontier in energy politics. No doubt, it will be a game changer and it would have an Asian vector and a European vector — and a Russian-American vector. The major players are gearing up for action to cope with the new great game in energy politics.
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Posted by seumasach on April 12, 2015
How China grew desperate to conceal its power from the world
Telegraph
11th April, 2015
The creation of the prosaic-sounding Asian Infrastructure Investment Development Bank (AIIB) has landed the biggest blow to America’s superpower status in the post-war era.
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