With all the oil producing regions experiencing rioting in the streets and the USA wafling on about no-fly zones in Lybia does anyone wonder why there is no support for democracy in Saudi Arabia? Hilllary Clinton and others are outraged about the suppression of protests, yet when Saudi troops arrived in Bahrain what happened? Nothing. [...]
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Oil Democracy is Selective ….
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: arms · global · oil · politics
Breaking the Non-Proliferation Treaty
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ali-Reza Moayeri (Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations) is critical of violation of Non-Proliferation Treaty by certain Western countries calling them real threat to international stability and security. He cited negligence of disarmament by the nuclear states during an address to a two-week gathering on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Treaty and repeated violations of NPT regulations [...]
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Mikhail Gorbachev Accuses US of New Cold War
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Mr Gorbachev recently told The Daily Telegraph that a US military build-up was under way to contain a resurgent Russia. From NATO’s expansion plans in the former Soviet Union to Washington’s proposals for a bigger defence budget and a missile shield in central Europe, the US was deliberately quashing hopes for permanent peace with Russia, [...]
