By Christine Hong and Paul Liem | CounterPunch | September 15, 2016 North Korea’s nuclear test of September 9, 2016, the fifth and largest measuring twice the force of previous blasts, prompted a predictable round of condemnations by the United States and its allies along with calls for China to step up its enforcement of […]
RT | July 8, 2016 The boosting of US missile defense potential in Asia and the Pacific undermines the existing global security balance, the Russian Foreign Ministry said after it was announced that Washington intends to place missile defense systems in South Korea. “From the very beginning of the discussion of this issue we have […]
Sputnik — 21.06.2016 The next US president should order a comprehensive evaluation of the capabilities of high-altitude missile-defense programs with a view to scraping them as useless, ex-US Chief of Naval Operations science advisor Theodore Postol told Sputnik. “The emphasis of the review should be to determine if these systems have any capability to discriminate […]
By Caleb Maupin | New Eastern Outlook | May 11, 2016 In almost every US aligned Gulf State, you can find an autocratic monarch who rules over a small, oil-rich corner of the world via an outdated, pre-democratic legal system that grants him absolute authority. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarch with dictatorial […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Munich, Germany, Feb. 12, 2016 [Xinhua] The BRICS Post | February 13, 2016 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday reacted strongly to South Korea-US talks on possible deployment of an advanced US missile defense system. Wang said this “would complicate the regional […]
The BRICS Post | February 8, 2016 An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council early Monday has “strongly condemned” North Korea’s launch of a satellite into space, but China and the US differed on the type of response debated among world powers. North Korea says the satellite launch was for peaceful and scientific […]
