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2022 State of the Union Address

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 1 March 2022

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, and our First Lady and Second Gentleman, members of Congress and the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, my fellow Americans: Last year, COVID-19 kept us apart. This year, we’re finally together again.
Tonight — (applause) — tonight we meet as (...)

“The Art of War”

The future of "America", increasingly armed

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 21 February 2020

The federal government of the United States is responsible for defense and foreign policy, as well as the prosecution and adjudication of federal crimes. The new budget plans to close large agencies whose role is constitutionally vested in the states. It chooses to make no cuts in military (...)

The Power of America’s Example

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 11 July 2019

The Biden Plan for Leading the Democratic World to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Today, Joe Biden laid out his foreign policy vision for America to restore dignified leadership at home and respected leadership on the world stage. Arguing that our policies at home and abroad are (...)

In Spite of It All, America: A Trans-Atlantic Manifesto in Times of Donald Trump — a German Perspective

Berlin (Germany) | 12 October 2017

1. International Order — the new German-American conflicts of interest
One of the new German government’s premier challenges will be to manage the trans-Atlantic relationship during Donald Trump’s presidency. Its success in this endeavor will be one way to measure its overall performance. (...)

Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Speech

by Donald Trump

27 April 2016

It’s time to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy. It’s time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold, something we have to do. The direction I will outline today will also return us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American (...)

Santiago de Chile: the yuan’s financial stronghold in Latin America

by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 15 August 2015

Economic relations between China and Latin America are living increasing tensions. As a result of deflation (fall in prices) on a global scale, the South American region is suffering the consequences of concentrating the bulk of its exports to China on commodities. However, the opening of the (...)

China’s “Silk Road” enriches its influence on South America

by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 31 May 2015

During his tour through Brazil and Peru, China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang committed to the construction of the “Silk Road” of South America; a continental train that would connect the Atlantic to the Pacific. Within its objectives, this mega-project will seek to impulse the industrialization (...)

America Refuses to Face up to Its «Death Squads» in Blue

by Wayne Madsen

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 7 May 2015

The riots in Baltimore have been presented as held covertly by gangs. Wayne Madsen shows that it is actually a popular revolt -not just the black community- against oppression. Baltimore Police was formed to repress of dissidents by Israel, on the model of the repression of the Palestinian (...)

China has become main banker in Latin America

by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 13 March 2015

The loans granted by China have changed into an instrument of foreign politics. At the same time these loans permit China to forge closer ties with fundamental allies and reduce the influence of financial institutions under the aegis of the United States in strategic areas.

“Orient Tendencies”

Why America wants to attack Syria

by Wassim Raad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 9 September 2013

That’s why America wants to attack Syria
By Ghaleb Kandil
Barak Obama ’s decision to declare war on Syria did not come from nowhere. It is the result of a series of factors that, from the point of view of the U.S. President, is a last attempt to avoid the end of the unilateral hegemony of (...)

America: The New Saudi Arabia?

by F. William Engdahl

15 March 2013

At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in USA unconventional gas from shale rock, when countries from China to Poland to France to the UK are beginning to launch their own ventures into unconventional shale gas extraction, hoping it is (...)

The Sino-Russian Alliance: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

16 March 2012

Famously predicted by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the rapprochement between
Russia and China can be traced back several years. In this article, first published in 2007, Nazemroaya analyses the successive stages of a historical process consistently driven by the same anti-hegemonic principles that (...)

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Does America have a Muslim problem?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 9 April 2011

“Pastor” Terry Jones
Whatever becomes of the truly pathetic “Pastor” Terry Jones and his plans to appear later this month at the largest Mosque in Michigan to condemn Islam and to generate some media attention while provoking all decent Americans and people of good will everywhere (...)

Pakistan: Can America Get Away With Murder?

by Shahid R. Siddiqi

Karachi (Pakistan) | 3 March 2011

The President of the United States deceived the American people – and the world – about a U.S. spy held for killing two Pakistanis, and blatantly misrepresented the laws governing diplomatic immunity. The U.S. corporate media dutifully did what their government told them to do and they have (...)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America

by Benjamin Netanyahu

8 November 2010

The story of the Jewish people is that of great destruction followed by miraculous redemption.
That same resilient spirit is exemplified by your collective efforts to help this great city rebuild itself after Hurricane Katrina.
Just as you have rallied time after time to help Israel (...)

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