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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article198112.html" style="
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">Unseen in the West, the BRICS summit in Xianmen marks a new step in the development of this international institution. Zhao Minghao reports the three main objectives of the summit and the concept of "BRICS Plus".
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">In a world where images count more than realities, the Press is presenting us with a democratic referendum for the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan. However, despite the fact that, constitutionally speaking, this referendum should be held throughout Iraq, and not only in the independentist zone, several million non-Kurdish voters have already been ejected from their homes and will never be able to return. In the polling stations, only the independentists will be supervising the legality of the vote. Thierry Meyssan reveals this fraud and the interests it is hiding.
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">The US Grand Strategy</a><br />
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">Moscow (Russia) | </span><br />
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">Mikhail Leontiev devoted his column on the first Russian television channel to Thomas Barnett’s theory. What appeared to be an intellectual lucubration in 2001 is currently being realized. Everyone must now rethink their vision of the wars of the past sixteen years.
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">Several Top Secret documents, sourced from Edward Snowden’s files, have recently been published, revealing how the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on India’s ballistic missiles systems and nuclear weapons. The NSA did so using its interception programme, Rainfall, via its bases in Australia and Thailand. These Top Secret documents make it more plausible to view two events with suspicion: the death, allegedly accidental, of Homi J. Bhabha, the father of Indian nuclear power, and also, the deaths of 11 scientists, that occurred during Obama’s first term in office.
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">Following the organization of the coup d’État in Ukraine, the installation of Nazis in Kiev and the independence of Crimea, Nato is feeding the paranoia of its East European members. Not only did Moscow protect the Crimeans from a government that had Nazis among its members, but conquered by force and annexed this territory that historically had belonged to the Russia. It is on account of this narrative that Washington is succeeding to occupy Eastern Europe by force, without its people, now subdued, protesting. In contrast, the people are alarmed about the Russian – Belarusian military manoeuvres.
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">While the Syrian Arab Army, the Russian aviation and Hezbollah are preparing to finish off Daesh, the Pentagon is planning a new war against Syria, this time with Kurdish troops. Just as the mission of the Caliphate was to create a Sunnistan straddling Iraq and Syria, so the mission of « Rojava » is to create a Kurdistan straddling the two states, as the Pentagon has been publicly stating for the last four years.
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<a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article198106.html"><img class='spip_logos' alt=' ' align="left" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L158xH99/arton198106-c9d01.jpg" width='158' height='99' style='height:99px;width:158px;' /></a><br />
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