"Non-aligned nations" hold anti-U.S. summit in Cuba.The Marxist-led "non-aligned" movement, created and controlled by "independent" Marxists during the Cold War, is enjoying a revival as a counterpoint to the Bush administration's interventionist foreign policy. Little was said about the anniversary of 9/11 as delegates from 116 nations--that figure accounts for roughly two-thirds of the entire UN General Assembly--met in Havana in September for the summit of non-aligned nations. Prominent among attendees were China, North Korea, Laos, and of course the host country, Cuba--all of which are specimens of a supposedly extinct species This page features extinct species, organisms that have become extinct.
totalitation regime . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Reuters, "The Non-Aligned Movement was founded in Belgrade in 1961 by Third World nations to try to avoid alignment with either the United States or the Soviet Union.... Since the Cold War ended, the movement has struggled to find a purpose. Experts say it is handicapped by historical, cultural and religious divisions." Those divisions have been overcome, in large measure, by growing worldwide hostility toward what is seen--by reasonable people, as well as Marxist ideologues--as Washington's needlessly bellicose bel·li·cose adj. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. See Synonyms at belligerent. [Middle English, from Latin bellic and militaristic mil·i·ta·rism n. 1. Glorification of the ideals of a professional military class. 2. Predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state. 3. foreign policy. Julia Sweig, Latin America director at the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. , minimized the Havana summit: "There are much more serious challenges to American power than a conference of an organization that few people knew still existed hosted by an island that no longer maintains an activist military foreign policy." This supposedly trivial little get-together included an emissary EMISSARY. One who is sent from one power or government into another nation for the purpose of spreading false rumors and to cause alarm. He differs from a spy. (q.v.) from Beijing, which is holding an ever-increasing share of the paper on the debt that Washington has run up to carry out its CFR-designed foreign policy. One need not be a political scholar to understand the implications of China using its growing dollar reserves and diplomatic clout to build a significant anti-U.S. coalition, with Russia and India as strategic partners and various elements of the "non-aligned movement" as disposable tactical pawns. |
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