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">Although the armed clashes are not completely over in the beleaguered district of Homs and that the Syrian and Lebanese authorities have yet to inform public opinion of their recent actions, Thierry Meyssan appeared Monday night on the leading Russian television channel to make an initial assessment of the operations, providing first-hand information which he is sharing with the readers of Voltaire Network.
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Moscow-and-the-formation-of-The"><img class='spip_logos' alt=' ' align="left" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L120xH160/arton172705-03e64.jpg" width='120' height='160' style='margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 10px;' title='Moscow and the formation of The New World System' /></a>
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">Imad Fawzi Shueibi examines the reasons and consequences of Russia’s recent position at the Security Council. Moscow’s backing of Syria is not a posture but the result of an in-depth analysis of the shifting global balance of power. The current crisis will crystallize into a new world configuration, which, from the unipolar model inherited after the collapse of the USSR, will gradually evolve towards a multipolar system. Inevitably, this transition will plunge the world into a period of geopolitical turbulence the repercussions of which are scrutinized by the author.
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">"NATO’s favorite despot"</div>
<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/U-S-Prepares-Georgia-for-New-Wars" style="
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/U-S-Prepares-Georgia-for-New-Wars" style="
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">Placed in power in 2003 by a US-backed regime change operation, Georgian President Saakashvili has enthusiastically pandered to Washington’s every whim ever since: From contributing a hefty troop contingent in Afghanistan, to opening up his country’s territory to accommodate US military designs in the region, essentially against Russia. This time, as Rick Rozoff details, Georgia’s soil will be used in a possible attack on Iran. In return, Saakashvili’s puppet masters have promised to secure him another electoral win.
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">Contrary to her position at the time of the attack on Iraq, in the case of Syria France failed to defend the principles of international law, rallying instead the imperial camp and its lies. Together with the United Kingdom and the United States, she has suffered a diplomatic defeat of historic proportions, while Russia and China have become the champions of the sovereignty of peoples and peace. The new international balance of power is not only a consequence of the United States’ military decline, it is also a penalty for their falling prestige. Ultimately, Western powers have lost the leadership they enjoyed throughout the twentieth century, having forsaken all legitimacy by betraying their own values.
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">Joseph Stiglitz comments on the recent woes of the U.S. economy, which came as a rude awakening for the apostles of the "American dream." It is thanks to the special status of the dollar that Washington still enjoys an authority disproportionate to its objective economic capacities. So far, the U.S. military managed to deter any challenge to this privileged status. Nevertheless their position is eroding, both morally and militarily, in the face of emerging powers. Accordingly, the double veto by Russia and China on 4 February rang like a wake-up call back to reality. A new balance is inevitable, and it is the geopolitical impact of this economic readjustment that we have to brace for in 2012, according to the Nobel Prize in economics.
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">In this analytical overview, Canadian pundit Stephen Gowans puts his finger on a fundamental aspect which informs on Washington’s real regime change ambitions in Syria. Political dictatorship in Syria is over. However, what does subsist is a state committed to independent, self-directed economic development...hardly the free-enterprise model in line with the interests of overseas banks, investors and corporations.
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Syria-2011-2012-a-rematch-of" style="
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">Syria has been slated for regime change since at least 2002, when it was included in the "Axis of Evil" by the Bush Administration. In this context, Nazemroaya maintains that toppling the government in Damascus was the key objective of Israel’s ill-fated blitz on Lebanon in 2006. In geo-political terms, what Israel failed to achieve then is currently being attempted by NATO and the GCC through a low-intensity proxy war inside Syria itself.
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">As the attacks against Iraq and Libya have proven, the purpose of Western interventions is not to safeguard civilian populations, but to establish regimes that are friendly to the economic interests of the United States, and compatible with Israel’s geopolitical ambitions. By opposing the very principle of foreign intervention in Syria, the BRICS nations are defying the world vision defended by the Western powers and their media, but not the Law, nor Justice. As argued here by Aisling Byrne, not only are Russia and China the only countries that respect International Law at the Security Council, they are also the only ones that respect the aspirations of the Syrian people.
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