Didnt Hitler install a lot of puppet leaders leading up to WWII?
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Pan African thinkers may wish to ask themselves this question: "If South Africa were at war with Canada and in the process of bombing Canadian cities back to the Stone Age, would US President Barack Obama allow Mrs Zuma (the wife of the South African President) to come and have tea and talk charity with Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter (former US Presidents) in Washington DC?"
Tafataona Mahoso
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One of the avatars of the financial sector crisis that began in 2007 in the United States and spread like wildfire to Europe, is the enthusiasm shown by Western European banks (especially German and French banks[2], but also Belgian, Dutch, British, Luxemburg and Irish ones) in using funds lent or donated massively by the Federal Reserve and the ECB to increase their loans to several Eurozone countries between 2007 and 2009 (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain) racking up juicy profits due the higher interest rates there. For example: between June 2007 (beginning of the subprime crisis) and September 2008 (Lehman Brothers bankruptcy) loans by private Western European banks to Greece rose by 30%, from 120 to 160 billion Euros.
Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint
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The Kremlin has announced a three-day "official visit" by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to Russia beginning next Wednesday at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev.
Asia Times Online
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Recent initiatives by its government attest to Turkey’s determination to bring a new realism to world politics, and events in the Arab world provide an opportunity to reshape regional relations,
Eric Walberg
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Nearly a century ago, Britain was accused of masterminding a failed plot to kill Lenin and overthrow his fledgling Bolshevik regime. The British government dismissed the story as mere Soviet propaganda - but new evidence suggests it might be true.
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While the worlds attention continues to be drawn by the birth pangs of a New Middle East, with each Friday promising more unpredictable spectacle, the talks that began in Brussels on Thursday between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia on a European anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system have taken a back seat. Brussels is a dour city in comparison with Cairo or Tehran.
Asia Times Online
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As Europe lurched from one disaster to another last year, with even large economies like Spain and Italy being under threat, the 27 member states of the European Union agreed May 9, 2010, to the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) in order to financially support euro-area member states in difficulties supposedly caused by exceptional circumstances beyond their control.
Asia Times Online
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Much has been said of Africas growing strategic significance. Stereotypical images of war, poverty, social and political instability, ethnic and sectarian strife, drought and disease may, for good reason, continue to color perceptions of the continent.
Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd.
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The unscheduled visit by United States Vice President Joe Biden to Islamabad this week underscores Washingtons embarrassment and anxiety that it stands excluded from a regional initiative on Afghan peace process that could be about to take off. The rapid sequence of events over the past fortnight has taken Washington by surprise.
M K Bhadrakumar
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Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu declared on Tuesday that any country sending representatives to the ceremony in Oslo awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo were "clowns".
BBC News
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In the past few months, Israel has gone out of its way to cast itself as a victim of aggression in case a war with Hezbollah breaks out. As the United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) inches closer to indicting senior Hezbollah officials for the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, and the likelihood grows that the Shiite militant group will stage a coup detat in response, the clouds of uncertainty hanging over Lebanon are only getting darke
Victor Kotsev
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In a capitulation of breathtaking audacity, President Obama has effectively ceded the sovereignty of the United States in its foreign policy to Israel, write
thtaking audacity, President Obama has effectively ceded the sovereignty of the United States in its foreign policy to Israel, writes Ramzy Baroud
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In France this week, more than two million workers took to the streets to protest against proposals to raise the retirement age. But the harsh economic climate may continue to threaten the traditional French way of life.
BBC News
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Emotions are running high in Stuttgart, where an estimated 50,000 people protested on Saturday because trees had been felled to make way for an upgraded railway station. Earlier, German police used water cannon and pepper spray to clear opponents from the site.
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