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Russia Reduces Key Interest Rate To 11% – The Central Bank Says Economic Growth Is A Priority
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has cut the key interest rate from 11.5% to 11.0% citing growth as a priority. The rate cut is already the 5th consecutive one this year. Last Friday, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) said in a statement the following: Major macroeconomic indicators demonstrate further economy cooling. The Bank of Russia estimates GDP decrease … Continue reading
The Eurasian Big Bang: How China And Russia Are Running Circles Around Washington – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar, originally posted July 23, 2015 on TomDispatch Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning … Continue reading
Syria’s Assad Admits His Troops Struggling To Maintain Control And Announces Army Deserter Amnesty
In a televised speech on Sunday in Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to win his country’s long-running civil war. He has acknowledged his troops are struggling to maintain control. The major issue is the lack of manpower. Syrian president also tried to justify why the Syrian army has given up some areas of Syria. Assad said … Continue reading
NATO, West Becoming Irrelevant As BRICS/SCO Expand Political, Economic Influence: F. William Engdahl
By F. William Engdahl The dual summits that took place in Russia’s Ufa beginning 9 July were anything but routine. In fact it may be seen by future historians as a signal event that marked the definitive decline of the global hegemony of European civilization including North America. This is no small event in human history. … Continue reading
The Real Reasons For The Iran Agreement: Putting More Pressure On Russia – OpEd
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland or his … Continue reading
Russia: Putin Revives Far Eastern Economy To Compete With China, Japan And South Korea
Vladimir Putin has just signed law establishing Vladivostok as a free port in order to revive this Far Eastern economy to compete with Macau and Busan. The new legislation offers big tax advantages to local people and aims to attract foreign investments especially from China, Japan and South Korea. Key privileges include the following: the … Continue reading
Historic Iran Nuclear Deal Resets Eurasia’s ‘Great Game’
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times This is it. It is indeed historic. And diplomacy eventually wins. In terms of the New Great Game in Eurasia, and the ongoing tectonic shifts reorganizing Eurasia, this is huge: Iran — supported by Russia and China — has finally, successfully, called the long, winding 12-year-long Atlanticist bluff on its “nuclear … Continue reading
What The Mainstream Media Missed From The BRICS And SCO Summits
By Andrew Korybko, Sputnik News The Ufa Summits were so wildly successful that most media outlets couldn’t keep track of everything that transpired. The most widely known achievements to have come out of the BRICS and SCO Summits in Ufa are the BRICS New Development Bank and India and Pakistan’s joint accession to the SCO, but that doesn’t mean that … Continue reading
The BRICS And SCO Sow Panic In Exceptionalistan
By Pepe Escobar As austerity-ravaged Europe watches its undemocratic “institutions” grapple with the Greek tragedy, and the US backtracks on a fair nuclear deal with Iran, geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting in the Urals. Can you feel an inchoate multipolar world? Well, just look right here at the BRICS 2015 Ufa declaration. The EU is hardly … Continue reading
Why The BRICS Summit Has Been Virtually Blacked Out From U.S. Media: Putin Is Leading The BRICS Uprising
By Mike Whitney There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition of nations … Continue reading
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