peace

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
April 30, 2013
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RT | April 29, 2013

President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe say the countries foreign ministers are to resume speedy talks on a peace treaty that was suspended in 2003.
“The heads of the two nations have expressed their resolution to overcome the existing differences in the parties’ positions and to sign the peace treaty by finally solving the question in a mutually acceptable form,” reads a joint statement after a meeting between the two men.

RT | April 29, 2013

Russia and Japan have launched a new tool for the development of mutual investments. The new Russo-Japanese investment platform involves injections starting from $1 billion and is aimed at boosting Russia’s Far East.
The agreement was reached on an official visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Moscow where he met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. It was the first official trip by a Japanese Premier to Russia for ten years.

Atlantic Community
April 30, 2013
Sweden: A Special NATO Partner?
Ryan C. Hendrickson
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[I]t was during NATO’s Operation Unified Protector in Libya that Sweden reached a new level of partnership, which has no parallels among partner states.

Looks to me as if the traitorous nations doing the deals are largely the US/Israel subordinates in the GCC.Israel is the big winner and the Palestinians are getting railroaded.. :To rush or push (something) through quickly in order to prevent careful consideration and possible criticism or obstruction

By Hüsnü Mahalli | Al-Akhbar | April 29, 2013

Istanbul – At a press conference attended by nearly a hundred Turkish and foreign reporters, Murat Karayilan, acting leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), announced his group’s plan for reconciliation with the Turkish government.

Dozens of metal and wooden tents cling to the rocky hillside, just outside of Jerusalem along the road leading to the Dead Sea, while the unmistakable red roofs of Israeli settlements peak out from behind opposite hilltops. For 49-year-old Eid Hamis Jahalin, this quiet spot symbolises the potential centre of peace in the region, and [...]

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war
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Leo Tolstoy
Translated by V. Tchertkoff and A. C. Fifield

Painting by Ilya Repin
Notes for Officers (1901)

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Georg Brandes: Selections on war
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Georg Brandes
From The Conquest of Basra (1914)
Translated by Catherine D. Groth