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The UK is not in the Euro and refuses to help bail out poverty stricken members. That is the essence of the matter, for it indicates that she may opt in for the benefits but never for the obligations and this goes back a very long way…To make matters worse, the economic collapses within Europe (not helped by Britain watching from the sidelines) make it difficult to keep the inner politics from turning self destructive...
Rafe MAIR | 14.05.2012 |
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The US Council on Foreign Relations authoritatively projects that in the XXI century the rivalry over Arctic mineral riches will escalate into a new type of a Cold War, which promises to be a conflict profoundly different from the one that marked the XX century's bipolarity epoch. Indeed, it is impossible to overlook the fact that calls for the internationalization of Russia's Northern maritime route emerged as a recurrent foreign-policy theme both in the West and in the East since the dawn of the XXI century.
Nikolai MALISHEVSKI | 10.05.2012 |
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To understand what I’m about to say, here is a map of the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Enbridge Pipelines, a large Canadian company... there are about 150 Indian bands, now called First Nations, involved... At present, 131 First Nations are vigorously opposed to the pipelines/tankers...
Rafe MAIR | 18.03.2012 |
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Nearly 2800 Americans and 160 Canadians have perished in this war without a cause... In going into Afghanistan, the US made the fundamental mistake that happens when big countries invade and occupy small ones – they lack an acceptable motive and, more importantly, have no exit strategy...
Rafe MAIR | 13.12.2011 |
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NATO is no longer a treaty binding nations to defend one another; we now say that a mostly Egyptian terrorist group now operating out of Afghanistan or Pakistan according to the exigencies of the moment, who attacked the US on 9/11, comes under Article 5 and we must all spring to the aid of the US and occupy Afghanistan! It’s a very short leap from there to say that NATO is now a treaty to enforce American adventures...
Rafe MAIR | 04.12.2011 |
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Canada’s overriding mission, according to its constitution. is “Peace, Order and Good Government” yet I see violence ahead and it’s all about the Tar Sands in Alberta, the worst polluter in the world, and proposed pipelines from them to the British Columbia port of Kitimat then down the BC coast to the US and China…
Rafe MAIR | 15.11.2011 |
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A condition precedent to avoiding a war in the Middle East is to remove the casus belli, namely Israel’s domination over Palestine and its overwhelming military capability. That can only be done when the US as a great power, not just a supportive banker, bears down on Israel... If Israel is permitted to continue its current policy, war in the Middle East is certain...
Rafe MAIR | 10.11.2011 |
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There is no question that Mr. Obama is being beaten up by the Republicans, especially the right wing “Tea Party” group... Mr. Obama is already being pummelled for bailing out big banks and brokerage houses, by his party, the Democrats, while the Republicans, under whose watch the market crashed blame him for not bailing out enough and, get this, for bailing out the big banks and brokerage houses in the first place...
Rafe MAIR | 08.10.2011 |
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Corporate power is immense. President Obama may lose the next election because he has brought in a universal health care system. “The Tea Party” element of the Republican Party, which represents raw undiluted capitalism, not only condemns any sort of public healthcare system – something most western countries take for granted – it blames President Obama for trying to clean up the fiscal mess they left behind which was the consequence of Republican de-regulation of the money markets…
Rafe MAIR | 05.08.2011 |
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It’s often thought that Canada and the US are like peas in a pod (one small pea, one big one) since both conquered a large share of North America, That, however, is a false assumption. The United States was spawned in violence... The violence that accompanied American expansion simply didn’t happen in Canada... the Canadian public supports its troops in Afghanistan but does not support the war itself and that, to put it mildly, muddies the political waters...
Rafe MAIR | 04.07.2011 |
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