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In a Vulture Capitalist World Colonialism is in Vogue Again

In a recent decision, expected for final adoption in March 2012, on overseas countries and territories or OCTs - the term "colony" is no longer used in globalized «Newspeak» - the EU now insists that a collection of four EU member states' overseas dependencies «spread all over the world» must be less "dependent" on Europe but must be maintained as "strategically important outposts»... For the United States, EU maintenance of its «strategically important outposts» is important in the Pentagon’s grand design to be assured military access to the outposts in the event of regional and global wars...

Wayne MADSEN | 14.12.2011

India & ‘America’s Pacific Century’ (I)

The American strategists nowadays call India a ‘swing power’ in the Asian theatre and that its stance on any issue of substance in the regional security scenario would hold the potential to shift the power dynamic, especially in the Asia-Pacific where the US and China are involved in a keen tussle for regional dominance. India’s ‘trilateral dialogue’ with the US and Japan has China’s rise as its leitmotif. The Indian pundits have begun resuscitating the old idea circa 2006-07 of a ‘quadrilateral alliance’ [US-Japan-India-Australia] to contain China in the Asia-Pacific. Some have argued for a US-India-Australia ‘security pact’ in the Indian Ocean and Malacca Straits through which China conducts the overwhelming bulk of its foreign trade including 80 percent of its petroleum imports...

Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 30.11.2011

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