Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2013
The collective GDP of the seven emerging economies could become larger than that of the G7 group of developed economies as early as 2017, the report said.
16th January, 2013
Russia is due to overtake the German economy by 2020, and the E7 club of emerging economies will take the reins of the world economy in another 30 years according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report.
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Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2009
The consolidation of cooperative relations between Germany and Russia, including, by the look of it Russia’s new security proposals is the key development in the emergence of an independent Europe which has cast off the tutelage of the anglosphere. Twice last century the London- Washington axis managed to draw the two giants into conflict; this was then institutionalised in the Cold War and, of course, the division of Germany. Now, Germany and Russia are drawing inexorably together and the New Cold War is a damp squib.
Mackinder expressed the conditons for anglo-saxon hegemony as follows:
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
Who rules the Heartland commands the world-island
Who rules the world-island controls the world.”
The writing has been on the wall for some time: the US/UK are being pushed to the fringes of the “world-island” .We are witnessing the dramatic demise of a maritime, financier empire which has dominated the world for over three hundred years.
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MUNICH, February 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russia must be included in European security structures, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2008
James Blitz
15th September
The deal brokered by the European Union for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia has been slammed by Nato’s top official as “not acceptable” because it cedes too much ground to Moscow.
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Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2008
31st August, 2008
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
29 August 2008
Christopher King argues that Europe is now at a juncture at which it must choose between the US and its lies, propaganda and military threats or a mutually-beneficial and prosperous relationship with Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2008
28th August, 2008
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In These New Times 