Michael Roberts
In step with David Sansoni’s email questioning Victor Melder has categorically challenged my speculative suggestion that NOVA PERIS may possibly have had a grandparent who was a Sri Lankan pearler/trader/seaman in the north-western reaches of Australia .
VICTOR: “No, Nova Peris is not of Sri Lankan heritage; she is a prominent Indigenous Australian from the Gija, Yawuru, and Muran/Iw
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Watch https://youtu.be/0HsAtrd8bNE?
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Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent, in NIKKEI Web … Alternative Title = “NATO’s New Swordsmiths”
NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners — Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand — will discuss defense industrial cooperation when they meet on Thursday, according to a senior U.S. official.
A U.S. soldier inspects a Patriot missile defense battery near Warsaw in 2015. Precision munitions and air defense are seen as key areas of need as NATO looks to expand defense industrial cooperation …. Agencja Gazeta via Reuters
Michael Carpenter, senior director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council, said on Monday that the security of Europe is intertwined with that of the Indo-Pacific — a concept often mentioned by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Adrian Bishop, …. with highlighting beAing impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi
Putin will arrive in Pyongyang in a few hours for extensive talks with the North Korean leader. On the agenda is the boosting of strategic relations between Russia and NK to counter Western sanction and threats from Aukus. A new security architecture for the Asia Pacific is being formulated by the two countries to counter US threats in the region.
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Theodore K .… commenting thus in sending Thuppahi this Item
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Leading experts speak at the Schiller Institute today on how close the world is to nuclear war. The speakers include the ubiquitous Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, and Colonel Richard Black, a former Vietnam veteran – both appear on a Ukrainian hitlist which raises the question,Filed under accountability, american imperialism, authoritarian regimes, British imperialism, centre-periphery relations, conspiracies, ethnicity, governance, historical interpretation, life stories, military strategy, Pacific Ocean politics, politIcal discourse, power politics, self-reflexivity, slanted reportage, the imaginary and the real, truth as casualty of war, Ukraine & Its Ramifications, war reportage, world events & processes, World War Three?, zealotry
Fair Dinkum
What is astonishing is that while China and Europe are doing trade to the tune of 783 billion, the US and NATO are waging war to the combined tune of 500 billion. One is about construction, the other destruction. One is about peaceful cooperation, the other is about perpetual war.
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SEE … https://southasianstudies.org.au/journal/
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ranks as the leading academic journal in South Asian studies. It provides a forum for scholarly research, comment and discussion on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations of the South Asian region, drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences. South Asia publishes cutting edge, innovative, conceptually interesting, original case studies and new research, which shape and lead debates in the field.
Professor Kama Maclean: a key figure in the history of the journal
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An Honest Broker **Devious
With regard to the Maldives piece, this article is propaganda: ………………….. https://thegeopolitics.com/navigating-the-geopolitical-waters-india-maldives-relations-in-a-shifting-global-landscape/ You cannot expect it to remain unchallenged.
The article doesn’t contain a single piece of information that hasn’t been slanted in India’s favour, at the expense of China. The arguments presented here are “meritless, counter-productive and not based on facts”, as John Kirby would say. The intention is once again, as India always does, to smear China’s relations with countries in the South Asian region and reassert Indian hegemonic dominance. That’s why you can’t post a link without it being challenged.
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An Observer from a Black Sea Town
When it comes to things like human rights, military/humanitarian interventions – small or weak states are always targeted, not big powerful states. It is easy for NATO to intervene (without UN Security Council authorization) to bomb Serbia and Libya because these countries are not big powerful states. NATO recently announced its intention to intervene into North Africa and the Sahel countries, again without UN Security Council authorization. So, NATO doesn’t just circumvent the UN Security Council, but its goal is to unilaterally replace it.
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Fair Dinkum responding to an EMAIL CIRCULAR sent by Victor Melder, 20 September 2023 ….. bearing this You-Tube ………………
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGtxKRZNhXwcqdggGVBwdQpGTTj?projector=1
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