The New Dark Age

19 March 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Crisis in Libya

18.03.2011 | 00:00 | DOLGOV Boris
The society in Libya is a patchy conglomerate of clans and tribes, with Sufi orders, particularly the Senusite oder, playing a significant role in organizing their transactions. The Senusite oder enjoys great influence in the country’s east, the homeland of Libyan king Idris I ousted by Gadhafi. This is why the rebels in Libya carry flags from the epoch of king Idris I….
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Authoritarian Revolution: the US Right Hits High Gear

17.03.2011 | 00:00 | KERANS David (USA)
…Right wing interests in the US have steadfastly pursued a program of sabotaging the effectiveness of state mechanisms that could temper the upward distribution of wealth in the present and facilitate social mobility in the future. The financial crisis that commenced in 2007-08 has provided magnificent opportunities to accelerate this program, especially now that the 2010 elections transferred control of the House of Representatives and 22 state legislatures from the Democrats to the Republicans
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The Arabian Revolutions and Central Asia

16.03.2011 | 10:14 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr
A wave of anti-government protests in the Arab world has made us think about whether such events are possible in other parts of the planet… Taking into account geographical location of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Xinjiang autonomous district of China and other hotbeds of instability, as well as geopolitics of the Central Asian region which has common borders with Russia, China, India and Iran, the consequences of possible unrest will do the former Soviet republics more harm than to Libya.
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Fukushima: the Technology of Deception

15.03.2011 | 00:00 | KOVALEV Victor
A typical technology of deception is to tell the truth, but not the whole truth. The coverage of the recent catastrophes at Japan’s Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 nuclear power plants seems to be built on the above principle… Finally, the ongoing drama brings to the spotlight the concept by which advanced technologies coupled to anthropogenic destabilizing factors can play the role of a particular form of weapons of mass destruction…
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Chinese Economy: Overheating and Soft Landing

14.03.2011 | 17:39 | SALITSKI Alexander, TATSY Vladimir
The situation on the Chinese real estate market reflects the general fact that China has more money than it can digest. At the moment the trend is reinforced by the slump in investments which followed the realization of China’s biggest investment portfolio in 2008-2009. The gradual cooling should be expected to continue in 2011…
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Islamism, the US and “Wahhabi lobby” in Russia

13.03.2011 | 12:53 | AMELINA Yana
Islamism, which has been the driving force of militants group in North Caucasus for at least five-seven years, and in 2010 jihad began to spread over the Volga region in the Russian republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan… “Wahhabi lobby” on regional and federal levels hampers efficient confrontation to Islamists’ ideas in Russia… The US is actively supporting Islamist movement in Caucasus through different funds, NGO etc…
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With Their Fists Clenched: The Protest Potential of the Young

12.03.2011 | 18:04 | NIKANDROV Nil
It will take time to really grasp the significance of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other Arab countries, but at least one thing is already clear: the younger generation played the key role in the developments. Fairly similar discontent is brewing in the Western hemisphere, the question being which country — Mexico, Honduras, or Chile — is going to be the first to explode with protests…
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