The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said she sees her main task in facilitating international negotiations on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The foreign policy chief spoke to journalists ahead of a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. On Wednesday, she is set to hold talks with US Secretary of State John …
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US On Horns of Dilemma: How to Defeat ISIL and Contain Iran
Together the United States and Iran could easily defeat Islamic State, but this victory would play into hands of Iran and its Middle Eastern allies and ruin Washington’s relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel, a US expert noted. After United States military forces defeat Islamic State, Washington must …
Read More »Obama’s Strategic Agility: US Wants to Have a Finger in Every Pie
Although US President Obama vowed that “a decade of war is now ending” in 2013, the US troops have got bogged down in three conflict zones, while Washington takes regular lethal actions in at least five countries, Michael Crowley noted. President Obama’s “dream” of extricating the United States out of …
Read More »Republican Candidates to Hound Hillary Over Clinton Foundation Allegations
Experts say that US Republican presidential candidates will stick with the story of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s acceptance of foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation as long as they can gain politically. US Republican presidential candidates will try to keep the story of former Secretary of State Hillary …
Read More »First US-Ukraine Business Forum to Take Place in July – US Commerce Dep’t
The first US-Ukraine Business Forum will be held in Washington, DC in July to show US commitment to support Ukraine’s private sector, the US Department of Commerce announced in a statement. Cabinet members from both the US and Ukrainian governments will participate alongside business leaders from the private sector, according to the …
Read More »The Topol-M ICBM Launcher Comes to Moscow
The missile launcher will go on display at an exhibition of weapons and military equipment at the VDNKh. The complex will be installed next to a mockup of the Buran space shuttle. The Topol-M missile has an operational range of 11,000 kilometers (6,800 miles), and speeds of up to 7,320 meters per second (Mach 22). The missile …
Read More »Russian S-400 for China: Challenge for Asian Geopolitics?
Russia is ready to sell China its state-of-the-art S-400 missile system. Japan is worried by the prospect, fearing it could undermine its security amid an ongoing territorial dispute surrounding the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China. Russia’s business daily Vedomosti reported last November that Moscow …
Read More »US is Losing Its Status of World Power – German Media
The US is losing its status of world power, as the country has lately not been able to enforce its geopolitical interests in several regions and has had to retreat, according to German Media. The descent of the United States as a world power started in Syria, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reported. …
Read More »AIIB and BRICS Bank Pose Threat to Bretton-Woods Dollar System – Engdahl
The rapid rise of the AIIB was foreseeable: the world’s emerging economies got really frustrated when the US-dominated Bretton Woods institutions disregarded them as a “group of banana republics,” F. William Engdahl noted. Washington’s policy makers have been ignoring the needs of the world’s emerging economies for too long, treating …
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