The real BRICS bombshell: Putin reveals ‘fair multipolar world’ concept in which oil contracts could bypass the US dollar and be traded with oil, yuan and gold By Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times The annual BRICS summit in Xiamen – where President Xi Jinping was once mayor – could not intervene in a more incandescent geopolitical context. Once …
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Xi-Modi meeting falls flat and accomplishes little No tangible commitments were made during the most anticipated bilateral meeting between BRICS leaders. In many ways the would-be highlight of this year’s BRICS summit, the inevitable handshake and discussion between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was something of a dog that did not …
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The leaders of Iran and Turkey’s armed forces have not held such meetings since before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. NaNk Share on Facebook Twitter This week, Iran’s most senior General, Mohammad Baqeri, the leader of Iran’s armed forces travelled to Ankara where he met with Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli and Turkey’s top General, Hulusi Akar. During …
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Seit gut einem halben Jahr scheinen die deutschen Medien nur noch ein Thema zu haben: Trump! Trump in allen Facetten – Trumps Umfeld, seine Berater, sein Schwiegersohn, Russlandkontakte, Trumps große und kleine Dummheiten, Trump, Trump, Trump. Dabei gäbe es doch viel wichtigere Themen, mit denen man das Sommerloch füllen könnte. Und selbst, wenn man …
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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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ALEXANDER MERCOURIS11 mins ago 99 Crack in German consensus on sanctions as Christine Lindner head of Germany’s FDP says sanctions policy has failed and time has come to face reality by recognising Crimea as Russian. Christian Lindner, the head of the German liberal FDP, has broken a taboo in German politics by saying that Germany should recognise Crimea …
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7.08.2017 • 06:45 Uhr https://de.rt.com/16jn Quelle: Reuters 6.2K26 Iran, China und Russland fordern die USA in den Meeren und am Himmel heraus. Es ist ein Symptom für Amerikas rückläufigen globalen Einfluss. von Danielle Ryan In seinem neuen Buch über den Niedergang der US-Weltmacht schreibt der Historiker Alfred McCoy, dass durch das Verblassen der Supermacht, die nicht in …
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Angry China warns US on North Korea: back off and talk or risk disaster Commentaries in China’s official media show growing Chinese anger at US grandstanding and intransigence on the North Korean issue. If the Chinese or anyone else imagined that the sanctions resolution recently passed by the UN Security Council would calm tensions in the …
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This analysis was written for the Unz Review. With the Neocon coup against Trump now completed (at least in its main objective, that is the neutralization of Trump, the subsidiary objective, impeaching Trump and removing him from office remains something for the future) the world has to deal, yet again, with a very dangerous situation: the …
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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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