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• InI 13:03 on March 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (VII) By Dmitry MININ 

  21 March 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  Why does the United States need an empire?

  Historian Niall Ferguson states that the majority of modern-day academics see an entirely appropriate parallel between the “imperial rule” of the USA and the British Empire as it was 100 years ago.[1] Joseph Nye, meanwhile, believes that “not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others… Respected analysts on both the left and the right are beginning to refer to “American empire” approvingly as the dominant narrative of the twenty-first century.”[2]

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• InI 13:03 on March 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (VI) Dmitry MININ 

  16 March 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  Modern-day empires in the West

  The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European Union initially pursued an imperial policy with regard to countries in Central and Eastern Europe that had joined the EU, but then began to extend the same policy to other countries. Continue reading this...

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• InI 13:03 on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ 

  13 March 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  Modern-day empires in the East

  A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the shadow of Washington is discernible. 

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• InI 17:54 on March 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), Bulgaria ( 30 ), Cuba ( 131 ), culture ( 167 ), elections ( 59 ), Europe ( 188 ), Iran ( 1,267 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), Kosovo ( 141 ), Mali ( 130 ), MININ, Niger ( 44 ), Turkey ( 338 ), United States ( 472 ), Uranium ( 18 )   

  New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24 February – 2 March 2013: Empires / Kosovo / Iraq / Cuba / Niger-Uranium / Bulgaria 

  2 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation

  Kerry Brings Image of Dapper Diplomacy to Ugly Face of Washington’s Imperialism
  02.03.2013 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM

  Any illusions about a possible change in direction for American foreign policy were blown away this week with Kerry’s visit to Europe. And it was Kerry himself who blew away such illusions with his own words. The US secretary of state may have sounded multi-lingual and looked urbane in his pinstripe suit, with all its hints of diplomacy, but what he had to say on the issues of Iran and Syria, and by extension Russia, revealed Kerry to be a consistent operator of the same openly militarist agenda that has become such a hallmark of post-9/11 Washington…

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• InI 13:03 on March 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (IV) By Dmitry MININ 

  3 March 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  Modern-day military-political alliances and coalitions as analogues of empires

  The rebirth of imperial policy in modern international life demands an answer to the question: why are seemingly long obsolete geopolitical projects being dragged into the light of day at all when there are organisations like NATO and the European Union?

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• InI 13:02 on February 28, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (III) By Dmitry MININ 

  28 February 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  «Smart power» in the service of the American empire

  The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States‘ «imperial overheating», is based on the currently popular concept of «smart power», the very emergence of which suggests that America‘s former sources of power have been exhausted… The time when America‘s leadership went unquestioned has passed. Nowadays, maintaining leadership demands considerable intellectual and political efforts from the rulers of the American empire. 

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• InI 13:02 on February 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (II) By Dmitry MININ 

  26 February 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  A World of Postmodernism or the Newest Middle Ages?

  The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, in view of its uncertainty in people’s minds, is indiscriminate to such an extent that it is no stranger to the most improbable policy prescriptions. 

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• InI 13:01 on February 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  The Return of Empires (I) By Dmitry MININ 

  25 February 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  «Larger spaces» versus chaos in international relations?

  The recent expeditions of the French in Africa clearly smack less of neoimperialism than they do neocolonialism, and have prompted many to wonder whether the events are the start of a new cycle of world politics in which an outgoing unipolarity is perhaps being replaced by a forthcoming multipolarity not hailed by everyone, or something different, something new or maybe a repeat of history, but in new packaging? Maybe something that would allow, for example, the United States «to leave without actually leaving», to continue implementing their global plans in a more complex system of interstate relations? If so, then the imperial projects and vassal relations of by-gone eras that had seemingly vanished forever will turn out to be much in demand… 

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• InI 14:01 on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), Arms ( 40 ), Hezbollah ( 57 ), intervention ( 271 ), Israel ( 2,908 ), Lebanon ( 216 ), military ( 1,311 ), MININ, Moscow ( 91 ), news ( 1,237 ), Russia ( 301 ), SA ( 42 ), Strategic Culture ( 88 ), Syria ( 1,525 ), weapons ( 371 )   

  Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»? By Dmitry MININ 

  6 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation

  Speaking at the defense chiefs meeting in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally confirmed what the news agency had been raising ballyhoo about for the previous few days: the Israeli Air Force had launched a military operation against the legitimate government of Syria. It gave rise to speculations about a large-scale military intervention to start pretty soon. Continue reading this...

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• InI 10:17 on January 5, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  Zbigniew Brzezinski as a mirror of American devolution (II) By Dmitry MININ 

  30 December 2012 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  

  Part I

  Is the glory of Gorbachev proving contagious?

  We are halfway through the time allotted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his landmark book «The Grand Chessboard», when he predicted that U.S. dominance in the world would remain unchallenged for a period of thirty years. Now just 15 years on and in his new book «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power», he states that the devolution of American power is accelerating. Continue reading this...

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• InI 10:15 on January 5, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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  New at Strategic Culture Foundation 30 December 2012 – 5 January 2013: USA / Kyrgyzstan / Zbigniew Brzezinski 

  5 January 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation

  US Federal Reserve System Should Be Nationalized

  03.01.2013 | 00:00 | Olga SHEDROVA

  The United States is the only state in the world destitute of the right to issue its own currency. The role of central bank is carried out by the Federal Reserve System – a joint stock company created by 12 Federal Reserve Banks created in their turn by commercial banks on a territorial basis. The state has no money. Continue reading this...

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• InI 12:33 on November 24, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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  New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 November 2012: USA / Israel / Syria / Gaza / Obama 

  24 November 2012 – Strategic Culture Foundation

  The American Gulag as the latest form of capitalism (II)
  24.11.2012 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV

  The American example of the use of prison labor in the interests of private capital was contagious. Private prisons also appeared in a number of other states – the UK, Sweden, Estonia, Australia, and Brazil… In Japan, in May 2007, the first new prison in 50 years opened, which immediately gained the status of «private».  In Estonia, which has the highest percentage of prisoners in Europe (relative to the total population – 0.34), there are two private prisons. In Latvia, a few years ago, the Justice Department was considering construction of private prisons as a way to bring the country out of crisis. Similar projects are also being discussed in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. We are witnessing the birth of «prison capitalism» worldwide… Continue reading this...

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