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Libya Newslinks 2-4 June 2011
4 June 2011 — williambowles.info 4 June 2011 BBC: UK helicopters in Libya attacks RT: NATO deploys attack helicopters in Libya Mathaba: Libyan Terrorists Reject Ceasefire Proposal SCF: NATO launches helicopter strikes in Libya SCF: U.S. House adopts resolution rebuking Obama on Libya MRZine: Robert Naiman, “At Long Last, House Debates and Votes on Libya Continue reading
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Russia’s turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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Russia's turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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Syria, Libya, and Russia’s Retreat from “Reset” By M K Bhadrakumar
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus. Continue reading
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Russian politics: Nostalgia or a new political direction? By Eric Walberg
As Russia gears up for its election season this winter, Putin’s Popular Front and Rogozin’s nationalist front are playing an old Soviet melody and even borrowing a tune from revolutionaries in Cairo. Eric Walberg recognises the refrain Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 18 May 2011
18 May 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Conducts Over 7,000 Air Missions Libya: Dutch F-16s Carry Out 180 Missions Libya Says It Hit NATO Warship Shelling Misrata Libyan Model: NATO Upgrades Urban Warfare Capabilities Russia Opposes Repeat Of Libyan Model In Syria “Isolate Assad Regime”: U.S., NATO Allies Discuss New Syria Sanctions Continue reading
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Libya out of control – Medvedev — RT
[“src”:”http://rt.com/s/swf/player5.4.swf?file=http://rt.com/files/news/libya-control-medvedev-situation/sarah-live-medv-13_04_08_00.flv&image=http://rt.com/files/news/libya-control-medvedev-situation/dmitriy-televisionria-dmitry-medvedev.n.jpg&skin=http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/changeset/643/skins/beelden?old_path=%2F&provider=http&abouttext=Russia%20Today&aboutlink=http://rt.com&autostart=false”,”allowfullscreen”:”true”] Russia’s president said he blames NATO as well as Gaddafi and the rebels for the situation in Libya spiraling out of control, in an interview with Chinese TV ahead of the BRICS summit, where Libya will be discussed among other pressing issues. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 January, 2011: Zionist Left Writes Its Own Obituary
18 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center For The First Time, PLO Mission In DC Raises Palestinian Flag IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 02:00, In a symbolic move towards the recognition of an independent Palestinian State, the Palestinian mission in Washington raised the Palestinian flag outside its office building. Continue reading
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Russia and NATO: ‘Not a piece of furniture’ By Eric Walberg
Medvedev’s presence in Lisbon was more a show of Russia’s importance than of subservience to the Euro-Atlantic alliance, says Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 20-26 June, 2010
Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 20-26 June, 2010 2010-06-20 Alexander LEVCHENKO Poland Conditioned to Counter Germany and Russia “Europe is increasingly reluctant to pay with the lives of its people for the oil the US plans to extract from Iraq or for the hunt for the US-invented Al Qaeda. Having been instrumental Continue reading
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Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High stakes Great Game By Eric Walberg
Explaining the willingness of Euro leaders to ignore their constituents, former US ambassador to NATO and RAND adviser Robert Hunter told the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR): “In terms of motivation, very few European countries believe that winning in Afghanistan — that is, dismantling, defeating, and destroying Al-Qaeda and Taliban — is necessary for their… Continue reading
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Future of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces In the Wake of Obama's Moscow Visit By General Leonid Ivashov
As the US Administration is fully aware of the state of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces and the outlook for them, its consent to the proposed parameters of the arms reduction was not hard to extract. Speaking precisely, Washington simply tailored the parameters of the proposed cuts to its own military programs whose underlying strategy is… Continue reading
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US PLANS FOR MISSILE DEFENSE SABOTAGE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT TALKS WITH RUSSIA By Alice Slater
Had Obama been willing to forego the illusory US missile shield (which is incapable of offering any protection against incoming missiles, since those missiles could easily be accompanied by a barrage of indistinguishable decoys rendering the missile defenses useless) Russia might well have agreed to larger reductions in their mutual arsenals which together now total… Continue reading
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New Cold War on Hold? Is Obama Ready to Drop Missile Defense? By F. William Engdahl
The placement of US missiles in Poland and advanced radar in the Czech Republic are vital parts of the US post-Cold War strategy of NATO encirclement of Russia and eventual decapitation of the nation as a functioning entity. Continue reading
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Immanuel Wallerstein, “The New World Geopolitical Order: End of Act I”
I call this the end of Act I because it has sealed the reality of a true multilateral geopolitical arena. Of course, there are still further acts to come. And any faithful playgoer know that Act I merely establishes who are the actors. It is in Act II that we see what really happens. And… Continue reading
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‘Ex-Georgian Defense Minister Blames Saakashvili for War With Russia in Russified South Ossetia'
It now appears very certain that Georgian President Saakashvili had long planned a military strike against the Russian Autonomous Regions to seize back the breakaway territory starting with South Ossetia, but executed it very poorly. Continue reading
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Georgia: The West's Phantom Pains By Elena Ponomareva
The EU politicians with their unsophisticated vision seem unable even to identify – least to condemn – the actual aggressor. They cannot admit that the mad Tbilisi ruler who has sent Georgia’s NATO-sponsored army to South Ossetia and thus inflicted unprecedented disgrace on his country is in fact their creature. Continue reading
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Is it the 1930s all over again? By William Bowles
The bottom line then is that the crisis of capital has only two outcomes: remove the competitors or, face the end of capitalism and build a socialist alternative. If the former, then general war (whatever its form, ie “endless war”) is the only conclusion, thereby consuming the over-accumulated capital, ‘taking out’ the major competitors and… Continue reading
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