May 22, 2012 (TSR) - Recent world assurances that there would be no military intervention in Syria, coupled with consensual statements by UN officials and observers about the performance of the Syrian government, has to some extent raised optimism that Syria will not be caught in a similar Libyan scenario. After nearly 15 months of unrest [...]
May 19, 2012 (TSR) - With Putin opting not to attend the ongoing G8 summit at Camp David and Obama passing on an upcoming APEC summit in Vladivostok, much has been made of the bilateral snub. But Russian expert Martin McCauley told RT critics have missed the plot. As President Obama greeted leaders of seven other [...]
May 19, 2012 (TSR) -The U.S. Defense Department on Friday published its annual report on China’s military and security developments in a continued Cold War-style practice once adopted by the United States toward then Soviet Union. The report, though claimed “objective” and “factual” by the Pentagon, is ridden with speculative descriptions and even distorts the [...]
by Lady Michelle-Jennifer Santos, TSR Founder & Publisher, Political Strategist and Strategy/Peace Negotiator with the UN Security Council Special Envoy to the Arab Nations May 17, 2012 (TSR) – It is my greatest pleasure to present to you our first The Santos Republic Feature: The 2012 Inauguration of His Excellency, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of [...]
by Abayomi Azikiwe May 16, 2012 (TSR) - Some 200 disgruntled rebels who fought with the Pentagon and NATO in the regime-change military mission against the Jamahiriya government in Libya during 2011, made an effort to assassinate the interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib on May 8. The rebels were supposedly angry over the cancellation of monthly payments [...]
May 14, 2012 (TSR) - The Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting among China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan was held in Beijing from Sunday to Monday. The three nations released a Joint Declaration on the Enhancement of Trilateral Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership. The main aim of the summit is to launch a Free Trade Area (FTA) [...]
May 13, 2012 (TSR) – A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the American government can go dark – essentially conceal all of its information – regarding communications or operations involving the National Security Agency and Google Inc. The issue arose following a January 2010 cyber attack on Google that the court said primarily targeted Gmail [...]
by Sergey Strokan, Journalist, Essayist, Political Commentator and Poet May 12, 2012 (TSR) - May Day celebrations, with their global anti-imperialist drive, coincided with the “big two” of the non-Western world – post-communist Russia and communist China – exercising in foreign policy pirouettes and military drills to boost their all-weather ties. High-level contacts in Moscow and large-scale naval exercises [...]
May 11, 2012 (TSR) - Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, stressed on Thursday that sending and smuggling weapons into Syria contradict any political solution to the crisis and constitute an effort to assassinate the mission of the UN envoy to Syria Kofi Annan. In a speech during the meeting of UN [...]
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