The New Dark Age

27 May 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation

The Visegrad Bloc

27.05.2011 | 17:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine)
The countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) on the 12th of May announced their intention to create a new military bloc, which by the year 2016 might turn into a full-fledged organization, part of its functions acquired from NATO. Starting from 2013 the Visegrad Group will be taking part in NATO-led Response Force military drills… Countries of the new military bloc stretch out form the Baltic coast to Romania`s borders…
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Could Obama “betray” Israel?

27.05.2011 | 00:02 | Dmitriy SEDOV
The most striking statement in US President Barack Obama’s speech on “the Arab Spring” was his appeal to Israel to return to the borders of 1967, in other words to abandon control over the occupied Palestinian territories. Some of the Republican senators immediately said that Obama’s proposal was “betrayal”…
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In your Face!

26.05.2011 | 00:02 | William BOWLES (UK)
Facebook transforms who you are, your likes, dislikes, beliefs and fantasies, all of it into a commodity that it alone owns, 600 million intimate profiles of people like you and me…
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The drug wars in Central America: no mercy!

25.05.2011 | 16:33 | Nil NIKANDROV
Experts in Latin America believe that drug wars on the Mexico-U.S. border are being initiated by agents of the DEA, CIA and FBI. Huge sums are spent to provide financial and even military assistance to drug lords in Guatemala, Honduras: they are said to have been receiving arms, including grenade launchers and mines.Drug cartels are better armed than law enforcement forces and the army…
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NATO testing ‘Kosovo model’ in Libya and Syria

24.05.2011 | 19:35 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
On the 23d of May the naval forces of the US, NATO, South Europe and North Africa launched the maneuvers codenamed Phoenix Express. Taking into account how fast a wave of popular unrest is spreading across the Mediterranean region, Libya, Syria and probably Iran and Algeria will soon become the first areas where NATO`s new Strategic Concept will be put to test…
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Strauss-Kahn and rambunctious final of “Washington consensus”

24.05.2011 | 19:24 | Elena PUSTOVOITOVA
The arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn onboard of the plane ten minutes before flying to Paris from New York shook the global mass media not less than the elimination of terrorist N 1 Osama bin laden in Pakistan. Does it mean that both of them, each in his own right, posed the same danger for the United States?
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Moscow claims NATO’s action in Libya inadmissible

23.05.2011 | 18:18 | Irina LEBEDEVA (US)
Moscow largely specified its position on the Libyan issue at the end of last week. The Russian Foreign Ministry official spokesman, A. Lukashevich, said on May 20th that NATO attacks on Libya had been increasingly frequent with more civilians reported killed as a result.The coalition began to more often target such facilities of Libya’s state civilian management as a group of parliamentary buildings and the State Control Committee, which are located in the Libyan capital’s residential quarters… It follows from statements by the US Department of State that NATO seeks a regime change in Libya, said A. Lukashevich… 
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Obama’s Middle East speech: same old policy in new gift paper

23.05.2011 | 18:13 | Wayne MADSEN (USA)
With committed pro-Israeli operatives in his National Security Council and State Department, Obama’s message of “change” regarding America’s Middle East policy is just more of the same. Obama’s policy is not crafted by him but by Israel, working through its Lobby embedded in the White House, State Department, Pentagon, Congress, and the myriad of Israeli-controlled policy laundries at the Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy…
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Russia and Europe: Destination Unknown

21.05.2011 | 23:28 | Leonid IVASHOV
What are the real options for the interaction between Russia and Europe in the security sphere? First, both should realize that Russia, in Halford Mackinder’ terms,the continent’s heartland, is the backbone of the security of the nations of Eurasia. Secondly, Russia and Europe should jointly spell out the agenda for a new global configuration. The imposition of the US model for a new world order on mankind would have catastrophic consequences, while China has not unveiled an original concept for the global architecture and likely has nothing to offer…
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US hopes to harness Arab revolution

21.05.2011 | 13:17 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
If one were to describe United States President Barack Obama’s long-awaited policy speech on the upheaval in the Middle East, it is best done in the hackneyed phrase – ‘old wine in new bottle’. The US hopes to harness the Arab Spring to perpetuate its geopolitical dominance in the Middle East. Obama’s speech betrays that the US’ interests invariably trump its professed ‘values’… The Arabs will see through the high-flown rhetoric and comprehend that the US is desperately trying to wrest control of their revolution…
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