Category: #Geopolitiks
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Canada Military Reviews Widespread Sex Assaults
from farsnews.com: Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson reacted to the issue on Thursday and noted that he was “deeply angered upon learning of the alleged assaults”, Press TV reported. “Sexual misconduct of all kinds will not be tolerated within the Canadian Armed Forces,” Nicholson said, adding that he had requested General Tom Lawson, Canada’s chief…
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China’s Little Known Security Stakes In Ukraine
By Monish Gulati | eurasiareview.com: The Chinese position on the Ukraine crisis and the Russian intervention in Crimea has been described as being of “studied ambiguity”, and one of the objectives of this policy was to balance interests in both Russia and Ukraine. The discussion on Chinese interests in Ukraine has largely centered on military…
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US Anti-Apartheid Movement Helped Bring Change to South Africa
from voanews.com: It’s been 20 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial segregation that curtailed the rights of black South Africans for decades. One of the strongest protest movements outside South Africa to dismantle apartheid was in the United States during the 1980s.
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Palestine Rivals Announce Unity Pact, Drawing US and Israel Rebuke
from nytimes.com: The faltering Middle East peace process was thrown into further jeopardy on Wednesday, with Israel and the United States harshly condemning a new deal announced by feuding Palestinian factions, including the militant group Hamas, to repair their seven-year rift. Israel canceled a negotiating session scheduled for Wednesday night shortly after leaders of the…
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Investigators Revisiting Theory Missing MH370 Landed?
from nypost.com: The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane may return to the possibility that the jet landed somewhere, according to the latest media reports. The New Strait Times quoted sources close to the investigation as saying that the failure to turn up any debris at the current southern Indian Ocean search site was…
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Russia Writes Off North Korea Debt to Facilitate Gas Pipeline to South Korea
from naturalgasasia.com: In order to facilitate construction of gas pipeline to South Korea, Russia has agreed to write off almost $10 billion of North Korea’s Soviet-era debt, reports Reuters. On Friday, the State Duma lower house ratified a 2012 agreement to write off the bulk of North Korea’s debt, which stood at $10.96 billion as…
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Cold War 2.0 and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare
from GRTV.ca: The rhetoric that has been spewed in recent years about nuclear disarmament is, of course, was always just that: rhetoric. The US government has never seriously considered giving up its nuclear stockpile, or even renouncing a first-use nuclear doctrine. As Dr. Yuki Tanaka of Hiroshima University explains, the Obama administration has not simply…
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Ukraine Crisis: New World Order? It’s Just Like the Old One
from telegraph.co.uk: Here we are again, facing Russia across the barricades. How did that happen? Only five minutes ago, the West was celebrating the collapse of Soviet communism: a historic victory which had been achieved without a shot being fired. Russia would now join the free world as a capitalist economy, with something like democratic…
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For Rapid Growth, Africa Is the New China
from theglobeandmail.com: The latest hot investing sector to bottom out: Emerging markets. Once a favourite of investors amenable to living on the knife edge of risk and reward, emerging markets have been dragged down by their slowing economic growth. Many strategists suggest investors forget about emerging markets for now and instead put money in developed…
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Azerbaijan Pipeline Would Bypass Russia?
from politico.com: The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia is helping to create an opening for another former Soviet state that wants to become a bigger gas supplier to Europe. Azerbaijan — nestled between Russia to its north and Iran to its south — hopes its geographic and geopolitical position will help persuade the Obama administration…
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What #Putin Gets About Soft Power
from washingtonpost.com: Much of the commentary on Russia’s recent annexation of the Crimea has focused on Russia’s hard power—its geo-political designs in the so-called near abroad, ostensible security vulnerabilities to NATO’s eastward expansion, strategic objectives, and military capabilities. These questions are not moot and have a strong sense of urgency for leaders in Ukraine, Moldova,…
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NATO Chief Calls on Russia to Stop Destabilising Ukraine
from theguardian.com: The Nato chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has joined the US and UK in issuing an urgent public call on Russia to de-escalate tensions in the Ukraine, as pro-Russia separatists remained in control of government buildings in the country’s east. “I call on Russia to de-escalate the crisis, to pull back its troops ……
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Boiling Frogs Post Roundtable #5: NATO, Russia, Turkey and the “New Cold War”
from boilingfrogspost.com: In this edition of the BFP Roundtable, Peter B. Collins, Guillermo Jimenez, James Corbett and Sibel Edmonds discuss the latest moves in the formation of a so-called “new cold war” between NATO and Russia. We also tackle Seymour Hersh and his recent article in the London Review of Books examining Turkish involvement in…
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The Great Decoupling: How the West is Engineering its Own Downfall
This is an article from The Corbett Report Subscriber, the weekly e-newsletter for members of corbettreport.com. Please support this website and this work by signing up for a Corbett Report membership today for as little as 100 Japanese Yen ($1 US) per month. CLICK HERE for details. from corbettreport.com: Reports out of Moscow indicate that…
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Back to the USSR: Putin Schools Obama in Geopolitics
from dailyinterlake.com: “Russia as I indicated is a geopolitical foe… time and time again I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin…” —Mitt Romney, 2012. Remember that presidential debate when Mitt Romney was (snicker) ridiculed for his position on Russia? Obama quickly…