[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/legal-cia-drone-report-795/i7c2a103896f83360b216bd88f8dfff73_00a59100.dv.flv] СIA drones are attacking funeral processions and civilian and Taliban rescue teams in Pakistan. A staggering report exposing the practice has outraged NGOs and legal experts, who are demanding international laws to govern drone…
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[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-united-nations-russia-377/id075117311e52520040e13684bb99837_churkina_0600.flv] UN Security Council members have agreed to the text of a resolution on Syria. Reports say the new draft does not include provisions which Russia vocally opposed, namely an arms embargo and the resignation…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-un-security-council-211/ia41b01ea32eac8bdd8abc1e9d885675a_syria_portnaya_live_0200.flv] A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only permanent Security Council members challenging the UN’s right to ‘meddle’ in sovereign states’…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/china-philippines-usa-military-127/ia9eaa4ff880c27dd69d1d893e913063a_guest-wong.flv] The US decision to station forces in the Philippines could have dangerous repercussions. Beijing may enact economic sanctions after Manila invited in US troops in response to an escalating territorial dispute over the South…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/us-iran-ww3-chossudovsky-025/i133ef706adb87a224710e945997c8d16_chossudovsky.flv] The military build-up and economic sanctions against Iran are designed to unleash a global war from the Mediterranean to China with unpredictable consequences, warns Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization….
While military dominance remained a crucial denominator of international politics past century, oil politics has become a crucial element in current international politics, which will be further geared up in coming months and decades. This…
[Continued from Part I] First Subtheme: “Soft Power is Cultural Power” “Partly, Power is the ability to alter the behavior of others to get what you want. … basically three ways to do that: coercion…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/wikipedia-blackout-sopa-protest-121/if02d61dc5270996f2c230778c76152e6_guest-davies-1800.flv] John Davies, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK – the umbrella foundation in charge of Wikipedia – said the site’s unprecedented blackout was a tough decision to make, but a necessary one in the…