Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011
29th November, 2011
The launch of a new anti-missile radar station in the Russian Baltic Sea region of Kaliningrad should be treated by the West as the “first signal” of Russia’s readiness to counter “threats” posed by NATO’s missile defense plans, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2011
27th November, 2011
Iran will target NATO’s missile shield in neighbouring Turkey if it is threatened by military action, the commander of the aerospace division of the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday.
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2011
23rd November, 2011
Responding to Washington’s failure to bring Russia on board the European missile defense system, President Dmitry Medvedev announces sweeping plans to address what Moscow is calling a threat to national security.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009
KHARKOV (Ukraine), October 7 (RIA Novosti) – The new U.S. missile shield plans present no risks for Russia, and favorable conditions are now emerging for bilateral dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
John Feffer
1st October, 2009
Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [1] is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility. Despite the smiles and reassuring rhetoric at its annual summits, its internal politics have become fractious to the point of dysfunction. Perhaps like any sexagenarian in this age of health-care crises and economic malaise, the transatlantic alliance is simply anxious about its future.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009
27th August, 2009
The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defence is concerned, the current US administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland ad the Czech Republic,’ Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defence Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009
A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland
Justin Raimundo
24th July, 2009
An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.
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Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2009
Eric Wallberg
21st July, 2009
Obama’s geopolitical demarche in Russia’s backyard is moving ahead nicely… First there was the election in Bulgaria 5 July which brought a new party to power — Boyko Borisov’s Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. Borisov, or Batman, as he is affectionately called, was a Communist-era policeman who subsequently established a prosperous private security business and has been the mayor of Sofia since 2005. He campaigned on the usual — to fight corruption and secure a better economic future. The Batman bragged in an interview with Der Spiegel of receiving “letters of accolade” from the CIA and FBI, presumably for his battle with the dark forces. One of the first things he did as PM, however, was to suspend the existing energy contracts with Moscow, both the South Stream and a nuclear power plant project.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
14th July, 2009
Russia will not back tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities in exchange for a new arms cuts deal with the US, a foreign ministry official says.
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