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Russia acquires the soft touch

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10.06.2010, 23:50 40 comments

The silencing of Helen Thomas and the First Amendment

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24.09.2010, 17:32 25 comments

Ahmadinejad’s 9/11 "conspiracy theories" prompt UN walk-out

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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters after meeting Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow February 8, 2010 08.02.2010, 19:04 8 comments

Israeli leaders bring "war and occupation" – Khaled Mashaal

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06.07.2010, 11:26 48 comments

“US is building secret bases in Afghanistan for war against Russia” – journalist

Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, who has made it his mission to uncover the secrets of the Bilderberg Group, has shared some of his revelations with RT.

US confronts its reputation abroad

Published: 24 April, 2010, 00:09
Edited: 19 June, 2010, 04:09


Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb)

Many people believed that the election of Barack Obama meant a new US foreign policy. As the wars drag on, however, has anything really changed?

 
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American April 24, 2010, 05:18 quote
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Nobody respects a foreign constable. Not when it was Britain, not when it is the US. It involves horrible exchanges that while in some cases are to the greater benefit of the world, are more clear in their negative than their positive consequences owing to what they enable being more conspicuous than that which they prevent. If the US wasn't around, then someone else would be mucking in the ME because that area is inherently rife with religious extremism that would be let loose like a pandora without strong authorities to suppress it. Whose fault is that? And here we come to the complicated part of the problem. Obviously Israel, colonialism, and the Cold War made things worse than they had to be, but religion has been out of control in that region for a 1000 years, and the region long ago ceded its preeminence as a cultural hearth to the extremities of Eurasia. The real question is, how can interference be made to improve rather than perpetuate the vector of the region so that someday it can take care of itself without heavy handed interference from abroad?

Eric April 25, 2010, 02:32 quote
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Yeah, Obama is a liar and a miserable failure. America really crapped the bed on that one.

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