The New Dark Age

22 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Budget Austerity in the West: New Food for the Privatization Parasite?

22.10.2010 | 10:04 | KERANS David (USA)
To borrow a formulation from Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the world: the specter of the privatization of public assets. At an accelerating rate, the infrastructure that makes civilization possible, such as transport routes, communication lines, hospitals, schools, energy delivery, sanitation, etc. is being privatized, with serious consequences to the welfare of society today and in the future. Privatization comes in various forms, and is often disguised in so-called “Public-Private Partnerships”…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/22/budget-austerity-in-the-west-new-food-for-the-privatization-parasite.html

Saakashvilii: En Route to Geopolitical Revolution in the Caucasus

21.10.2010 | 17:15 | ZAMLELOVA Svetlana
Obviously, Saakashvili’s regime is charged with boosting separatism in Russia’s North Caucasian republics. This may be an uphill task, but if Moscow’s response remains limited to airing views like “we have no problems with Georgia, we only have a problem with Saakashvili”, there is a risk that some day we will see the job done…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/21/saakashvilii-en-route-to-geopolitical-revolution-in-the-caucasus.html

Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership

20.10.2010 | 13:54 | PUSTOVOITOVA Elena
The US will neither stop being a deficit country nor solve its unemployment problem as a result of the yuan appreciation… There is a tendency in the US to avoid admitting that the country simply lacks the resources an economic recovery would take. Even The Wall Street Journal wrote that the yuan theme is used to divert the public attention from more pressing issues…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/20/yuan-dollar-and-the-future-of-global-leadership.html

Obama’s India Visit: Constraints and Differences

20.10.2010 | 13:43 | MAHAPATRA Aurobinda (India)
Forthcoming India visit of the US President Barack Obama in the first week of November 2010 has been highlighted in various quarters with select emphasis on prospective positive outcomes in bilateral relations, without much analysis of the constraints or rather differences of both the countries on various issues… There are reports that during the visit both the countries will likely sign $5.8 billion arms deal…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/20/obama-india-visit-constraints-and-differences.html

Najmuddin A. SHAIKH: Reconciliation in Afghanistan

19.10.2010 | 21:17 | SHAIKH Najmuddin A. (Pakistan)
In the last 5 years some 9000 Taliban were said by the Peace and Reconciliation Commission to have returned to the government fold but of this number according to what one learnt in Kabul most had reverted to the Taliban because no facilities were provided or because reprisals were feared…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/19/najmuddin-a.-shaikh-reconciliation-in-afghanistan.html

Should Russia Seek to Join NATO?

19.10.2010 | 14:50 | KOVALEV Victor
The NATO summit which is to convene in Lisbon this year will supposedly confirm the alliance’s new doctrine titled “NATO 2020: Assured Security, Dynamic Engagement”, which was put together by a group of experts led by former US Secretary of State and Russia’s renown opponent M. Albright. The adoption of the doctrine based on Albright’s concept will boost NATO’s global outreach and at the same time broaden the interpretation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty which defines under what conditions the alliance should resort to force…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/19/should-russia-seek-to-join-nato.html

Mexico: Another Failed State

18.10.2010 | 12:48 | NIKANDROV Nil
These days, Mexico is increasingly often added to the list of failed states.The country started to spiral downwards following the signing of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)… Mexico’s war against drug cartels which already counts four years is inspired and supported by the US…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/18/mexico-another-failed-state.html

The War On Terror

17.10.2010 | 20:41 | ROBERTS Paul Craig
The “war on terror” is now in its tenth year. What is it really all about? The bottom line answer is that the “war on terror” is about creating real terrorists. The US government desperately needs real terrorists in order to justify its expansion of its wars against Muslim countries…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/17/the-war-on-terror.html

Romania and Moldova: the project of “latent integration”

16.10.2010 | 11:42 | TSIRDYA Bogdan (Moldova)
Instead of making a head-on attack on the Moldovan nationhood and direct unification with Moldova Bucharest has chosen for the tactics of “latent integration”. The goal is to form Romania’s protectorate on the territory of Moldova with common state authorities, businesses and educational institutions. In practice this will be a confederation and formally – “two Romanian states”…
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/10/16/romania-and-moldova-the-project-of-latent-integration.html