Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 August 2012: Turkmenistan / USA / APEC / Ecuador-Assange / Syria / Kosovo

25 August 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation

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25.08.2012 | 00:00 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India gas pipeline project [TAPI] is being taken out of its region for a Road Show in the West in September, prospecting for eligible suitors who would be interested to get engaged with it. The Asian Development Bank has been designated as the Transaction Advisor for the road show, which is proposed for September 10-20. The ADB will organize the ‘road show’ in the major financial hubs like Singapore, London and New York… The United States has voiced enthusiasm for the ‘road show’. “Many American companies are very interested in participating,” US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said during his recent regional tour of Central Asia…

24.08.2012 | 00:00 | David KERANS

…In effect, the message from the 2012 presidential election to the population is: tune out. Consequently, disenchantment with Washington will persist. But disengagement from politics may not. The impotence of the political system to curtail the excesses of inequality, environmental degradation, and other pathologies in the US version of capitalism has become clearer than ever over the last four years. Non-violent, direct action politics is likely to grow from the seed of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement. And the new front for direct action seems likely to be environmental policy, a theme we intend to explore soon in this forum.

24.08.2012 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV

A U.S.-China tug-of-war over Southeast Asian influence is proving to be a critical test for Washington’s “pivot” East as Beijing strengthens its economic and military clout in its own backyard. On June 28 a Chinese Defense Ministry statement said that the United States’ reinforcement of military deployment in the Asia-Pacific is not conducive to security and mutual trust in the region… the Pacific is the place where 95% of the world’s ballistic missile capabilities are located… Russia, China, India and other states could elaborate new security architecture in the region avoiding European bloc politics and hard-power approach to international politics. The time is now and the place to start is Vladivostok.

23.08.2012 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA

…In regard to British threats to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy to the United Kingdom in London, the focus should not be Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks. The real focus of the British government’s threats should be on something much bigger and more important than one man. The real issue at hand is the total disregard for international law that has clearly emerged in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War… No country has the right to impose its domestic laws on other countries. This is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of other countries. It an act of arrogance that implies that the rest of the world is part of a single country’s realm. In short this is how an empire acts. This behaviour, however, is also a sign of desperation as the American Empire tries exerting itself with greater force to hide the fact that it is crumbling.

22.08.2012 | 00:00 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH

…Russia has in the meanwhile proposed a meeting in New York of the countries that had participated in the Geneva meeting on Syria, which had strongly advocated a negotiated political settlement. This meeting was postponed after the Western and Arab nations refused to participate. This raises the question of whether there is any possibility of a meeting of minds among the major powers… Syria has added another and perhaps most important element to the turbulence that is afflicting the region…

21.08.2012 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV

The situation in Serbia’s breakaway autonomy, Kosovo and Metohija, increasingly drifts towards apartheid. Incidents in which locals Serbs, including children, are targeted or Orthodox churches, monasteries, and cemeteries are vandalized recur across the province, as the administration evidently attempts to squeeze out the UN mission and to establish itself as the absolute authority… The UN Security Council should do whatever it takes to bulldoze the apartheid regime built by the Albanian “administration” in Kosovo and Metohija, which is Serbia’s autonomous province.

20.08.2012 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN

…The United States and Canada voted «no» on a request by Ecuador to hold an emergency foreign ministers meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Britain’s threat to the London embassy. But an overwhelming number of Latin American and Caribbean nations voted «yes». The «Five Eyes» are increasingly worried that they will be poked out by a gathering force of nations no longer willing to put up with the Anglo-Saxon chicanery.

20.08.2012 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV

As Asia becomes more prosperous it spends proportionally more of its new wealth on defense. All regional actors get increasingly concerned about the ability to protect their economic interests to ensure sustainable growth. The disputed island territories are a lucrative asset to struggle for. With all the turmoil going on in the Middle East the Asia – Pacific is far from being calm seas too. This spring the tensions were high between China and the Philippines over the disputed Scarborough islands…

19.08.2012 | 12:50 | Dmitriy SEDOV

…Assange’s articulated doctrine being that a journalist relying on Internet as the platform has no obligations to any particular country, he had the absolute right to supply to the public every bit of information at his disposal. The US concept of what is and what is not legal is of course nowhere nearly as broad, and in the context condoms are of no help.

Republishing is welcomed with reference to Strategic Culture Foundation on-line journal www.strategic-culture.org.

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Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 August 2012: Turkmenistan / USA / APEC / Ecuador-Assange / Syria / Kosovo

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