CONFIRMED! by ADAM GARRIE The move is a diplomatic victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a big snub to the United States. In a seismic shift in the alignment in the Syria conflict, Turkey has confirmed it is ending support to anti-government forces in Syria. Additionally, the umbrella political group National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and …
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8 hours ago 99 Donald Trump has not only the weight of the American elite on his shoulders, he has the weight of western history on his shoulders. Donald Trump’s pragmatic world-view translating into tangible foreign policy was almost an impossible task. It is proving to be increasingly impossible by the day, but at least he …
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FEDERICO PIERACCINI | 09.07.2017 | OPINION On July 4, 2017, Xi Jinping was welcomed to Moscow by Putin. Their twenty-first official meeting was useful for coordinating their next moves concerning the international issues on the agenda ahead of the G20 meeting. More than twenty agreements have been signed between Russia and China, amounting to almost twelve billion dollars worth …
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| 07.07.2017 | OPINION The United States’ hegemonic dominance in the world is heading to the exits. The decline in US unipolar power has been underway for several years, in line with the emergence of a multipolar world. This week, Russia and China showed important resolve to face down American bully tactics over North Korea. The …
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The summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin in advance of the G20 meeting in Hamburg is the latest expression of the Chinese-Russian alliance which is reshaping the modern world.As my colleague Adam Garrie has rightly written, the meetings yesterday and today in Moscow between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and …
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Kim Jong-un gets what he wants: By ALEANDER MERCOURIS 3 hours ago Joint Russian-Chinese statement on Korean conflict recognises North Korea’s ‘justified concerns’, opposes military action, and effectively rules out across-the-board sanctions. Since this document is not easy to find, I set out the full text with the key points highlighted The Russian Federation and the People’s …
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June 25, 2017 Exclusive: The mainstream media is so hostile to challenges to its groupthinks that famed journalist Seymour Hersh had to take his take-down of President Trump’s April 6 attack on Syria to Germany, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is challenging the Trump administration’s version of …
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ERIC ZUESSE | 21.06.2017 | WORLD The Reason Behind the US Government’s Secret Hatred of Europeans The reason for the US government’s hostility — at least since 4 February 2014 —toward Europeans, has been a mystery, until now. This hostility wasn’t even publicly recognized at all, until it leaked out, on that date, from a tapped phone-line …
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Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi showed at SPIEF in St. Petersburg a continued determination to preserve a strong mutual relationship between India and Russia which for all the continued tensions also ties India and China together. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (“SPIEF”) which Russia holds every year in early summer in …
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| 03.06.2017 | WORLD This year, Russia and India mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited St. Petersburg to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 1 and take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 2. The two leaders signed the St. Petersburg declaration. This was the fifth Putin-Modi meeting …
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