Posted by seumasach on November 1, 2008
We wouldn’t be true Brits if we weren’t betraying someone, but in our view this is the “right betrayal”, as New Labour might put it. We recently speculated as to a possible shift in policy corresponding with the appointment of Mandelson. Is this it?
David Blair
30th October, 2008
Britain is preparing to “sell” Georgia and hand a “victory” to Russia by agreeing to start talks on a partnership agreement between Moscow and the European Union, according to senior European diplomats.
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2008
TEHRAN, October 20 (RIA Novosti) – There are no political obstacles in the way of the completion of the $1 billion Bushehr nuclear power plant being built by Russia in southern Iran, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2008
October 15, 2008 — “[E]veryone needs the America of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, an America which is not afraid of change, which is in a position to understand that nothing is given once and for all, and which is open to the world and for free debate,” wrote Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov in his article: “Face to Face with America: Between Non-Confrontation and Convergence,” which was published in the magazineProfile this month.
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Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2008
M K Bhadrakumar
11th October, 2008
On Sunday, en route to Astana, Kazakhstan, after a “very nice trip to India”, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters accompanying her, “I just wish I could have stayed longer in India”. New Delhi must be one of a handful of capitals where officials from the George W Bush administration receive an expectant welcome, and the doomsday warnings emitted from New York and Washington do not seem to matter.
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Posted by seumasach on September 12, 2008
“The complete failure of Cheney’s mission to Baku would appear to have come as a rude awakening to Washington that Moscow has effectively blunted the Bush administration’s gunboat diplomacy in the Black Sea. As the New York Times newspaper grimly assessed on Tuesday,”“The Bush administration, after considerable internal debate, has decided not to take direct punitive action [against Russia] … concluding it has little leverage if it acts unilaterally and that it would be better off pressing for a chorus of international criticism to be led by Europe.”
M K Bhadrakumar
12th September, 2008
Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity in Moscow last week over the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took time off for an exceptionally important mission to Turkey, which might prove a turning point in the security and stability of the vast region that the two powers historically shared.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2008
“The host for the debate stressed that this landmark telecast did not imply that the Kremlin administration of President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin was officially espousing any particular point of view concerning 9/11, but rather reflected a commitment to free and open debate.”
How I love that Russian sense of humour!
Webster G. Tarpley
9th September, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — Thierry Meyssan reports from Moscow that he and other leading international 9/11 truth experts have completed taping a television debate which will be telecast on the first national program of Russian state television this coming Friday, September 12. This no-holds barred, free-wheeling debate, featuring strongly divergent opinions about what really happened on and about September 11, 2001, will be shown in conjunction with the documentary film Zero, produced and directed by Chiesa and Franco Fracassi of Telemaco Productions in Rome. Russians are thus about to receive an unprecedented evening of 9/11 truth.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2008
In an interview with German news agency dpa, Chiesa, a European parliamentary deputy, said Russian television is to give prime time airing to his film on the eve of this week’s seventh anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington.
Russian diplomacy is clearly widening its scope to exposing the underbelly of US foreign policy including 9/11.
8th September, 2008
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In These New Times 