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">Since the retirement of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez’s death and the interdiction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to nominate a candidate in Iran’s presidential election, the revolutionary movement is absent a world leader. Or rather, was absent a world leader. However, the incredible tenacity and composure of Bashar al-Assad has made him the only chief executive in the world surviving a concerted attack by a vast colonial coalition led by Washington and beening largely re-elected by his people.
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">After three years of war against Syria, "Westerners" have deliberately expanded their offensive to Iraq and Palestine. Behind the apparent political contradictions between religious and secular parties, strong economic interests explain this strategy. In the Levant, numerous groups have several times changed camps, but gas deposits are immutable.
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<br />No holiday this summer for NATO; it’s working overtime. In preparation for the Summit of Heads of State and Government on September 4-5 in Newport in Wales, NATO will set down the blueprint for ’"strategic adaptation" for anti-Russia moves. As already announced by U.S. General Philip Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, it "will cost money, time and effort." The work has already begun.
<br />In Ukraine, while NATO intensifies its training of Kiev’s armed forces — (...)
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