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It is increasingly apparent that the US will maintain a sizeable military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014… Washington has also resuscitated the New Silk Road project, which is an important dimension to the post-2014 scenario…: Afghan-Pakistan trade and transit agreement…; Uzbek and Turkmen supply of electricity to Afghanistan; new rail connections being built between Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan; new rail line from the Uzbek border to Mazar-i-Sharif; progress in the negotiations over a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project; India’s iron ore project in Hajigak in Afghanistan; bids by American companies in the upcoming six mining tenders in Afghanistan (3 in copper, two in gold and one in lithium); creation of the Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe and the Customs Training Facility in Bishkek, and so on...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 03.05.2012 |
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The conflict around Iran has largely been dominating the world politics over the past several years. Citing the mythical "threat to the international community", the US is trying to disallow the Iranian access to nuclear technologies, though the interest of other countries - Israel, Pakistan, India, or the relatively minor threshold states - in civilian and military nuclear technology doesn't seem to evoke the same worries in Washington. It must be understood that the reason behind the paradox which may any moment escalate into armed hostilities is Iran's centrality to Eurasian security...
Yuri BARANCHIK | 02.05.2012 |
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From Moscow to Cairo and Damascus to east Jerusalem, Christianity is under assault, not from main stream Islam but from a nexus of Jewish and «Christian» Zionists allied with the disruptive forces of non-governmental organizations financed by global troublemaker George Soros, alias Gyorgy Schwartz. In Moscow, a feminist rock band called «Pussy Riot» has used trademark Soros disruption tactics against the Russian Orthodox Church...
Wayne MADSEN | 30.04.2012 |
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Once out of the building docks, every one of a fleet of 25 Q-Max huge LNG-carriers commissioned by Qatar will enable the transit of 150 million cu m of natural gas per trip, giving a boost to the country's LNG expansion. No doubt, since Qatar's ambitions are backed by the US Exxon Mobil, the capacities will serve to erode Russia's status of the biggest natural gas supplier to Europe. There is a feeling that the Washington neocons who, at best, see Russia as a US vassal in a coming confrontation with China, hope to use the capabilities to coerce Russia into a complete refusal from any independent foreign policies...
Vadim VIKHROV | 15.04.2012 |
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There is one thing certain about U.S. Pentagon strategy: it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. And using an old trick from Operation Desert Storm, establishing a humanitarian, NATO-protected no-fly salient in northern Iraq’s Kurdish area, appears to be the same strategy envisioned for northern Syria... In Iraq, a no-fly zone was established from the 36th parallel north to the Turkish border. If one were top draw that same boundary westward, it closely compares to the NATO-protected humanitarian zone being proposed for Syria. The NATO-protected northern Syria salient would encompass the cities of Aleppo and Idlib and the provinces of Idlib, Halab, Ar Raqqah, and Al Hasakah (the latter two where many Syrian Kurds live)...
Wayne MADSEN | 11.04.2012 |
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In international diplomacy, when scheduling a major event on which issues of war and peace are pegged and that date is just a week away, and if you still don’t know the venue, you're indeed in some serious trouble. The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced while on a visit to Istanbul to attend the 'Friends of Syria' meet on April 1 that the long-awaited meeting of the so-called 'P5+1' to discuss the Iran nuclear issue would take place on April 13. She disclosed that Istanbul would be the venue. But Clinton’s Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi now says Istanbul is only one option. Although “personally speaking”, he likes Istanbul, he proposed Iraq and China as Tehran's preference...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 07.04.2012 |
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Russia, China, the leading Western states and the Arab League joined together in support of the UN Security Council’s statement on Syria. The joint stance gives some hope for peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis. On the other hand the real state of things leaves no place for optimism. Those who signed the statement pursue different, if not outright opposite, goals... If we let Bashar Assad be toppled no doubt Syria will become the second Libya...
Boris DOLGOV | 26.03.2012 |
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The Copts are the descendants of ancient Egyptians and direct heirs to the culture of Egyptian pharaohs. Today they account for about 9% of the country’s population. The exact number is unknown. Supposedly it’s about 6 million... The Copts have always distinguished themselves by remaining faithful to Christianity no matter under the tough pressure from the Muslim environment... What kind of relationship the Copts and new Egyptian government will have now after the Shenouda III’s demise? It’s not quite and peaceful life for the multimillion Coptic community of Egypt, I’m afraid...
Vladislav GULEVICH | 23.03.2012 |
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The United States and its Western allies have championed the secession of certain aspirant nations whose independence is in the national and economic security interests of globalization... Similarly, the West... led the charge for South Sudan’s secession from Sudan. South Sudan is now a virtual colony of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are financed by the George Soros/U.S. Agency for International Development nexus, which are representing the interests of Western oil companies eager to exploit the new nation’s vast petroleum reserves. The NATO/Gulf Cooperation Council alliance that intervened to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has permitted, without military intervention, the eastern region of Libya, Cyrenaica, declared the “Emirate of Barqa” by Salafist Wahhabi Muslims on the payroll of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to declare its autonomy from the transitional government based in Tripoli... In Pakistan, the West has been covertly supporting Baluchi separatists who have carried out terrorist attacks on Iran...
Wayne MADSEN | 21.03.2012 |
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The third presidential term of Vladimir Putin will increase pressure on Russia from Western nations that have overtly and covertly sought to foment unrest throughout the Russian Federation. While such a threat is of the most immediate concern to Russia itself, another threat posed by the West will be the attempt by the West to pry more nations away from what is now considered by the military-industrial-intelligence complex in the United States and other NATO countries to be an emerging Russo-Sino bloc in Eurasia...
Wayne MADSEN | 15.03.2012 |
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