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">16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Mouvement, 26-31 August 2012, Tehran</div>
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">’When the Cold War between the US and Soviet superpowers ended 20 years ago, some analysts believed that the Non-Aligned Movement would become redundant, an organization no longer with purpose. Two decades on, the NAM is rising to the occasion with more relevance than ever and is perhaps realising its true moment of merit for the cause of world peace and solidarity.’
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Obama-s-Geopolitical-China-Pivot" style="
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Obama-s-Geopolitical-China-Pivot"><img class='spip_logos' alt=' ' align="left" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L120xH159/arton175535-f9793.jpg" width='120' height='159' style='margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 10px;' title='Obama's Geopolitical China ‘Pivot' ' /></a>
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">With little fanfare Barack Obama late last year announced a "strategic pivot" in US defense policy to focus on the Pacific, bolstered by "Coalition of the willing" Australia. It is all about emerging China as an economic colossus with a mind all its own. The US military has been steadily positioning itself along the strategic sea lanes surrounding China to deal potentially deadly blows to the mainland as well as cutting off its oil corridors to the Middle East and Africa. This author breaks down a situation where the noose tightening around China could generate a major new conflict zone in the not too distant future.
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">Journalist of the privately-owned Al Ekhbariya TV channel, Yara Saleh was taken prisoner with her team by the Free Syrian Army. She was spared and held hostage while a large mobilization in Europe put pressure on the French President to order his FSA friends to release her. Rescued in the end by the Syrian national army, she agreed to respond to the questions of Voltaire Network.
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">Through its much-touted ‘zero problems with neighbors’ doctrine, the Turkish government had set out with a realistic chance of being everyone’s friend. It has now made itself everyone’s enemy, including its own, by embracing policies that have put it on a collision course with disaster. By being duped into burning its bridges with Syria - Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya explains - Ankara has laid the foundations for the destabilization of the Turkish republic at the hands of the very same powers with which she is currently colluding.
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Syrian-vice-president-s-public"><img class='spip_logos' alt=' ' align="left" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L158xH103/arton175604-c35da.jpg" width='158' height='103' style='height:103px;width:158px;' /></a><br>
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Pentagon-s-reality-show" style="
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