Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
4th July, 2009
In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run-up to the arrival of US President Barack Obama in Moscow on Monday underscores the complexities of the context in which the two countries are going through at the summit.
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Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2009
3rd July, 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has pointed the finger of blame at the US for backing the military coup in Honduras.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st July, 2009
Twitter can now revert to its plan to shut down its Iran services and attend to maintenance work. Twitter goes into recess pleased that it probably embarrassed a resurgent regional power. The United States government owes Twitter a grand salute for having done something where all other stratagems of war and peace failed in the past three decades.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2009
Tehran’s « green revolution » is the latest version of the « color revolutions » which have allowed the United States to impose subservient governments in several countries without needing to use force. Thierry Meyssan, who advised two governments facing this type of crisis, analyses this method and the reasons for its failure in Iran.
Thierry Meyssan
27th June, 2009
« Color revolutions » are to revolutions what Canada Dry is to beer. They look like the real thing, but they lack the flavor. They are regime changes which appear to be revolutions because they mobilize huge segments of the population but are more akin to takeovers, because they do not aim at changing social structures. Instead they aspire to replace an elite with another, in order to carry out pro-American economic and foreign policies. The « green revolution » in Tehran is the latest example of this trend.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2009
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Nikolas Kozloff
29th June, 2009
On July 28, troops in Honduras ousted President Manuel Zelaya and flew him out of the country. Praised by the traditional left for his economic policies and social reforms, Zelaya’s alliance with Hugo Chavez and growing relationship with the ALBA countries were sharply rebuked by the more conservative sectors which also disapproved of his periodic attacks on the United States. From Costa Rica, Zelaya declared: “This was a plot by a very voracious elite, which wants to keep this country in an extreme level of poverty!”. However, it seems improbable that the Honduran elite would have toppled the democratically-elected president without Washington’s prior consent and support, despite assurances to the contrary.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2009
Thierry Meysann
28th June, 2009
En remettant en question la présence militaire US à Soto Cano et en adhérant à l’ALBA, le Honduras a suscité la colère de Washington. Des militaires formés à l’École des Amériques et encadrés par des conseillers US ont renversé le président constitutionnel Manuel Zelaya et ont installé à sa place son rival de toujours au sein du parti libéral, Roberto Micheletti. Thierry Meyssan revient sur les enjeux de cette confrontation qui marque la volonté de l’administration Obama de reprendre en main l’Amérique latine.
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Posted by seumasach on June 23, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
22nd June, 2009
Israelis are realists par excellence. This is why it is always gainful to buttonhole an Israeli counterpart over a single-malt on the diplomatic circuit. He will invariably weave into the tapestry of the plain tale a nylon thread until then obscure to the naked eye.
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Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2009
Michael Hudson
22nd June, 2009
In reaching across the aisle for Republican support – and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector Pres. Obama is morphing into Joe Lieberman. There also is a touch of Boris Yeltsin in his sponsorship of a financial “reform” ominously similar to what advisor Larry Summers backed in Russia – relinquishing government power to a banking elite. The Financial Regulatory Reform proposal promotes Wall Street’s “product,” debt creation, at the expense of the economy at large, and lets financial chieftains continue to self-regulate the debt industry – and to keep scot-free all their gains from the past decade’s worth of fraudulent lending.
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Posted by smeddum on June 22, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2009
Peter Lee
10th June, 2009
China’s fraught relations with the International Monetary Fund are driven by two conflicting agendas – the country’s effort to gain unimpeded access to resources in the developing world on bilateral terms, and its interest in using the IMF’s facilities as a international organization to issue Special Drawing Rights (SDR) assets to help Beijing diversify away from the US dollar.
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