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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode199 – War In Europe, FBI Forensic Fraud, #NoTechTuesday
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode199 – War In Europe, FBI Forensic Fraud, #NoTechTuesday Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Obama Announces Expanded Sanctions Against Russia as EU Aligns Ukraine Economy Shrinks…
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BRICS Against Washington Consensus
by Pepe Escobar | atimes.com: The headline news is that this Tuesday in Fortaleza, northeast Brazil, the BRICS group of emerging powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) fights the (Neoliberal) World (Dis)Order via a new development bank and a reserve fund set up to offset financial crises. The devil, of course, is in the…
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The Geopolitics of the Eurasian Economic Union
from globalresearch.ca: The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. By moving towards closer economic cooperation, Russia hopes to build, piecemeal if necessary, a common Eurasian economic space that will ultimately rival the US and Europe in…
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Russian Orthodox Church the Absent Player at Pope-Patriarch #Jerusalem Summit
from blogs.reuters.com: When Pope Francis meets the spiritual head of the world’s Orthodox Christians next week, the speeches and symbolism will focus on how these ancient western and eastern wings of Christianity want to come closer together. After almost a millennium apart, however, the key to the elusive unity they seek does not lie in…
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Russia and China Seal Historic $400bn Gas Deal
from RT.com: After 10 years of negotiations, Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world’s fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years. The total value of the contract is $400 billion, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said.…
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Research shows collision created Chelyabinsk asteroid
from phys.org: On February 15 2013, an asteroid exploded about 30 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion, shared on video around the world, was the Earth’s second largest recorded airburst. By analyzing fragments of the meteorite that fell to Earth, Shin Ozawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and colleagues determined that the asteroid formed…
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Russian History Is On Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself
from thedailybeast.com: So the international sanctions aren’t working—don’t worry! If 1,000 years of Russian screw-ups are anything to go by, it won’t be long before Vladimir Putin brings himself down. Now that we’ve failed to use Russia’s corrupt and degenerating economy, subservience to the international banking system, and vulnerability to falling energy prices to pop…
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India turns to Russia to help supply arms to Afghan forces
from stratrisks.com: India has signed an agreement under which it will pay Russia to supply arms and equipment to the Afghan military as foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country, in a move that risks infuriating Pakistan. Under the deal, smaller arms such as light artillery and mortars will be sourced from Russia and…
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The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Russia Clears Path for South Korea Pipeline
from corbettreport.com and apperspective.net: This month on the Asia-Pacific Perspective: The Pacific powers sign a new pact to reduce sea conflicts; Australia orders $12 billion of Lockheed Martin F-35s; and Russia clears the way for a Korean pipeline deal. -CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES -CLICK HERE FOR PREVIOUS EPISODES
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US Announces More Sanctions Against Russia
from nytimes.com: The United States added new sanctions against Russia on Monday, expanding the list of targets but concentrating on the myriad holdings of four billionaires viewed as part of President Vladimir V. Putin’s financial circle.
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EU ‘to Extend’ Southern Gas Corridor from Azerbaijan
from StratRisks.com: The EU would extend the route for supplies through the Southern Gas Corridor and its pipes will make their way further into Europe’s mainland, according to reports. Russia‘s Vedomosti, which cites sources from the European Commission, suggests that pipes could lead into France and Spain and this could increase the amount of Azerbaijani gas received from the Union. According to the…
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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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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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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…