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Russia, China Disagree with West over Iran Sanctions
TEHRAN (FNA)- A Western drive to impose a new set of tougher sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program may prove to lose momentum due to strong opposition from Russia and China.

The tense UN Security Council meeting began on Thursday with a salvo of warnings from UN representatives of France, Britain, and the US- all of whom stood united in their demands that Iran should comply with their demands over its nuclear activities.

Mark Grant, the British envoy to the United Nations, told reporters that if Tehran ploughs ahead with its nuclear work, it will face another set of coordinated and punitive economic and political measures as soon as next year, press tv reported.

French UN Ambassador Gerard Araud, meanwhile, said that "We make a last call to Iran to respond" to Security Council demands. "If Iran does not... France will present a new resolution of sanctions."

US Ambassador Susan Rice added voice to her French and British counterparts, stressing that the West is "firm in its conviction that Iran must comply with its international obligations."

"Should Iran continue to fail to meet its obligations, the international community will have to consider further actions," she noted.
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Vulture Vomit Kills Bill
Greg Palast
Monday, March 15, 2010

Vultures defend themselves by vomiting on their enemies. In Britain

last week, terrified vultures puked up a Tory MP named Christopher Chope.

Two weeks ago, the day after the 25 February broadcast of our investigation on BBC Television of financial vultures preying on the world's poorest nations, the British Parliament voted to effectively put them out of business in the UK. A rare victory for victims.

But last Friday, MP Chope used a Parliamentary gimmick to kill the bill.

Chope, I should say, has not confessed to the deed. The cowardly little piece of vulture puke would not admit he'd put the knife in the back of the law. However, vulture vomit has a truly vile stench, impossible to wash off; so activists were able to sniff him out.

Vulture funds buy up Third World nations' debts at pennies on the dollar then sue these nations for ten or a hundred times what the funds paid for the securities. The Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill would have barred vultures from using UK courts. READ MORE

 

Obama administration pushes for more war funding
wsws.com
By Bill Van Auken
27 March 2010

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 25, to launch the Obama administration’s drive to secure nearly $40 billion in supplemental appropriations, the bulk of it to fund the escalation of the Afghanistan war.

The push for additional off-the-books funding for the current fiscal year comes as Congress is also debating the administration’s proposed $159 billion to pay for the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiscal year 2011. The request for the Pentagon’s so-called base budget, which covers military spending outside of the war costs, amounts to $548.9 billion
In her opening remarks, Clinton was compelled to acknowledge the implications of the massive war spending—a total of $322 billion for the current and next fiscal years—under conditions in which funding is being cut for vital social programs, deficits are soaring and next to nothing has been done to create jobs for the country’s 15 million unemployed.

“I am well aware of the economic strain we all face here at home,” declared Clinton. Referring to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as “front-line states,” she justified the spending, insisting that “the challenges we face demand that we draw on all of the tools of American leadership and American power.”
Defense Secretary Gates sounded a similar note. “These times of economic and fiscal stress place enormous pressure on all of us to be good stewards of taxpayers’ dollars,” he said in his opening remarks. “However,” he continued, “even at a time of budget pressures, I believe it is critical to sustain an adequate, sustainable level of investment in the instruments of national security—be it defense, diplomacy, or development—that are so essential to America’s security and position in the world.”
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