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The current world order is "unjust and unsustainable" and needs an alternative headed by communist China, according to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. In a state-of-the-nation address delivered in Harare, the 79-year-old leader of the impoverished southern African country criticized what he called the "unilateral interference in the internal political affairs of other countries, especially smaller states," by powerful nations. Though the reference was to Zimbabwe itself, which is subjected to sanctions because of Mugabe's controversial policies, he also cited the situation in Iraq. "Recent events in Iraq have clearly shown that a unipolar order that presently govern international relations is...

Moscow is playing a leading role in preventing the establishment of an "American dictatorship world-wide," and U.S. "encroachment on the United Nations," according to official Russian sources. "The diplomatic triangle of Moscow, Paris, and Berlin" stands in opposition to the "party of war" led by the U.S., Moscow stated. Moscow's statements were carried by the Voice of Russia World Service, the official broadcasting service of the Russian government. Russia, Germany, and France have joined together to oppose a U.S.-led attack upon the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. While Moscow is denouncing the U.S. for attempting to establish a "dictatorship...

Mexico's President Vicente Fox Quesada is to offer Russia to join the recently formed group, which comes out for Iraq's democratic and sovereign development. The President announced this to Russian journalists before Vladimir Putin's visit to Mexico starting on Monday. The decision to form the group was taken at the recent EU-Latin American-Caribbean summit in Guadalajara (Mexico). Today this group includes France, Germany, Spain, Chile and Mexico. "Mexico and Russia have common approaches to international problems. We understand the necessity to build a multi-polar world, share similar views of further developments in Iraq and enjoy joint experience on this problem,"...

France: Arming China Preserves 'Yin and Yang'(2004-01-31) -- Allowing European Union (EU) nations to sell advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance, according to the French Foreign Minister who wants the EU to drop its embargo on such sales."There is a balance in world affairs -- a yin and yang, if you will," said Dominique de Villepin (who is a man). "There will always be iron-fisted regimes and there will always be oppressed people yearning for freedom. It's part of the circle of life. By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships...

MUMBAI: Coming down heavily on US military campaign in Iraq and globalisation, the World Social Forum (WSF) began here on Friday night with a pledge to launch campaign for a new international order ensuring social justice at all levels. Speakers from different countries urged the US and its allies to stop their show of power in various parts of the world and hand over Iraq to Iraqis while Indian anti-globalisation leaders criticised growing fundamentalism in the country in the context of post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. Captain Laxmi Sehgal, the INA veteran, said globalisation was a danger and should be fought...

I first began working with Robert Locke when I was editor of David Horowitz's FrontPageMagazine.com. Locke was then a highly original thinker, who offered daring, unapologetic defenses of the nation-state and the imperial West. Alas, poor Locke has been incorporated into the Borg -- which is to say that he now writes for Pat Buchanan's American Conservative. If Locke's latest production for that magazine, "Nation-Busting: The Trouble with Globalism" is any indication, I fear that Mr. Locke's famously independent spirit may have been tamed by the commissars of what I call "paleo-parasitism." And that is sad. Locke's article contains two...