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«Orient Tendencies»

Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...

Beirut (Lebanon) | 4 March 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry, the (Syrian National Coalition chief) Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and the Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi at a meeting of (Friends of the Syrian People) on February 28, 2013 in Rome. Americans must accept their defeat in Syria, or...
By Ghaleb Kandil (…)

“Let’s make sure we do better with Iran than we did with Iraq”

by Timothy Garton Ash

27 January 2006

The West has a new challenge. After Iraq, Iran now. While Teheran removes the seals of the nuclear facilities and gets ready to resume its uranium enrichment programme that could allow it to produce atomic weapons in some years, Europe and the United States must work on a common answer (…)

“No left turn”

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

17 January 2006

When the Aymaran indegenous leader Tupac Katari was executed in 1781 by Spanish colonial rulers, he cried out that he would return incarnated in millions. The overwhelming victory of Evo Morales, being himself also an Aymaran aborigine, seems that Katari was right. His electoral victory was (…)

“How the dreaded superstate became a Commonwealth"

by Timothy Garton Ash

11 November 2005

This week, the European Union did something remarkable. It chose to become an all-European Commonwealth, not the part-European superstate of Tory nightmares. Actually, the main objective of the opening –bitterly contested– of negotiations with Turkey is not to ensure that Turkey becomes a member (…)

“We Must Not Let Our Greatness Flicker”

by Aleksander Smolar, Michael Mertes, Timothy Garton Ash , Dominique Moïsi

24 June 2005

For historians, May 29th and June 1st, 2005, dates of the French and Dutch “no”, will be crucial and symbolic moments to Europe. They mark the symbolic end of an era that began after the Second World War, a period characterized by reverence to the European Union, associated with peace, (…)

The empire and the CIA against Latin America (First part)

by Tribunal Dignidad, Soberanía y Paz Contra la Guerra

Quito (Ecuador) | 9 March 2005

«The Corporation (Central Intelligence Agency -CIA) is the principal motor force of the international political maneuvering» (of the United States) Harry Ramson in the work: The Central and National Security.

Statoil reaffirms its interest in strengthening its Business portfolio in Venezuela

by Alia2

Caracas (Venezuela) | 7 October 2004

Participating in both the Plataforma Deltana gas project and the Orinoco Belt heavy crude oil project, as well as taking part in specific activities that seek national capital formation, social development, and transference of know-how and technology, are the main goals of the Norwegian (…)

Bidding processes for eight blocks of the gas project in the Gulf of Venezuela and Falcón

by Rubén Arachín

Caracas (Venezuela) | 18 August 2004

The vice-minister of Energy and Mining, Luis Vierma, informed that his Ministry (MEM) expects to grant the licenses for gas exploration, extraction, and commercialization in the Gulf of Venezuela and Falcón reservoirs this year.