The New Dark Age

31 December, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Happy New Year!
31.12.2010 | 16:59 | EDITORIAL
Dear readers!
Strategic culture Foundation Edition congratulates you happy New Year!
Following updating on a site – on January, 6th, 2011.
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US remakes the Asia-Pacific
31.12.2010 | 00:00 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India)
The United States’ relations with China and Russia will significantly influence the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific in the coming year… By the second half of 2010, the US made it clear it was “returning” to Asia. Washington began marshalling its old allies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) and its new “natural allies” (India, Indonesia), which was apparent in the extensive tours undertaken by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through the entire length and breadth of Asia…
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Wikileaks: The Book of Revelations? Not if you read the MSM
30.12.2010 | 13:41 | BOWLES William (UK)
The revelations come thick and fast, or faster than they were but aside from the odd mention, you wouldn’t know it if you relied on the mainstream media. If ever we needed evidence of collusion between corporate – so-called public broadcasting and the state then the way the diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks have been almost entirely ignored is the proof…
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The Pentagon’s Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II
29.12.2010 | 10:13 | ROZOFF Rick
On December 22 both houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed a bill authorizing $725 billion for next year’s Defense Department budget… The proposed figure for the Pentagon’s 2011 war chest includes, in addition to the base budget, $158.7 billion for what are now euphemistically referred to as overseas contingency operations: The military occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan…
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Who Can Help Tackle the Afghan Conundrum
27.12.2010 | 13:55 | KOZYREV Nikolai
Awareness is growing among Afghans that Russia has long turned the page on its Soviet-era campaign in Afghanistan and has nothing to do with the hostilities underway in the country. At the moment, Russia should stage a comeback in Afghanistan, but certainly not as a military power. Rather, Russian businessmen and engineers should lend Afghans a hand in bringing back to life the old Soviet-built economic infrastructures and in creating new ones…
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EU’s “Christmas Present’ for Bulgarians and Romanians
25.12.2010 | 13:40 | NESTEROV Vladimir
On December 21, Romania and Bulgaria, unexpectedly, received a “Christmas present” from Germany and France. On this day the European Commission received a quite remarkable letter written jointly by the French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux and the German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière. The ministers wrote that they were going to use their veto right not to let Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Area…
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