25 January 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Ukraine: Arab Spring Comes Along with Breath of Plagues
25.01.2014 | 00:00 | Vladimir NESTEROV
Some time ago Washington started to plan a string of «color revolutions» to facilitate the world division into two free trade zones – Transatlantic and Transpacific. The aim was to expand the world periphery under its control. As far back as in 2007 the US plans to reshape the maps of North Africa and the Middle East leaked into media… Somewhere it panned out as planned like in Libya and Tunisia, for instance. In other places healthy elements of society consolidated in the times of need to turn the process back, like it was in Egypt. In other cases a country was plunged into a bloody drawn-out conflict as a result of rebellion, the example is Syria… Vitali Klitschko, the leader of UDAR political party, has recently addressed the Euromaidan filled by protesters. He made no bones about it saying Victor Yanukovych may follow the fate of Gaddafi…
The Anti-Secession Axis Threatens Scotland and other Aspirant Nations
25.01.2014 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
British Prime Minister David Cameron has enlisted the support of a Scottish former NATO Secretary General and an English transvestite actor-comedian in the «Better Together» campaign to keep Scotland within the United Kingdom. English politicians and their Scottish «quislings» are growing concerned about the lackluster performance of the «No» campaign in the lead up to the September 18, 2014 referendum in Scotland that will simply pose the question to voters: «Should Scotland be an independent country?»…
Lebanon and Syria in the Funhouse Mirror of International Justice
24.01.2014 | 14:43 | Alexander MEZYAEV
Out of a series of terrorist attacks which took place January 16-17, the explosion in Kabul attracted the most attention. Information about the explosion in Lebanon was hardly noticed at all. But the explosion in the Lebanese city of Hermel on January 16, as a result of which five people were killed and dozens were injured, is of great significance in understanding what is happening in Lebanon and Syria. The time for the Hermel bombing was chosen deliberately. On January 16 the first trial of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) began…
The Barriers to Iranian – American Rapprochement: Israel and Saudi Arabia (II)
24.01.2014 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
Among US clients and allies in the Middle East there are fears that the security of their regimes had been compromised or that the US has secretly sold them off during its bilateral and multilateral negotiations with Iran. The Saudi-controlled media and its propagandists went into overdrive frantically deriding and lamenting Washington’s decision to engage Tehran in direct and public high-level diplomatic dialogue whereas Israeli leaders said that the agreement should be rescinded…
On the Drugs of «Peacemakers»
24.01.2014 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
For the third year in a row, NATO-occupied Afghanistan has grown a record number of opium poppies… Large opium plantations have even re-appeared in northern Afghan provinces like Balkh and Faryab, which were publicly declared to have lost their status as opium producers. These Afghan provinces neighbour two CIS countries – Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan… For a number of years now, America has also been using drugs to continue its cold war against post-Soviet states through the destruction of their human potential. On the eve of the withdrawal of NATO occupation forces from Afghanistan, they are encouraging drug production by every means possible, and helping the war move into its hot phase by using the drug mafia’s armed groups that are concentrated in the southern underbelly of the former USSR, that they have provided with arms, and that are hiding behind Islamist slogans…
The Barriers to Iranian – American Rapprochement: Within Iran and the US (I)
23.01.2014 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
Relations between Iran and the United States appear to be thawing. Within the Iranian political establishment, President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet were endorsed as negotiators and individuals with a history of negotiating with the Americans on behalf of Tehran. Rouhani himself had negotiated a secret arms deal with the Reagan Administration during the Iran-Iraq War whereas Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has had many meeting with US officials, hosting people like Joseph Biden in his US residence, when he was the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in New York City…
The Great Nicaraguan Canal, or the Chinese puzzle for America
23.01.2014 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
The idea of building an interoceanic canal through Nicaragua, similar to the Panama Canal but deeper and wider, has inspired the Nicaraguans for decades… In July 2012, the National Assembly of Nicaragua passed a law prepared by the government «On the legal status of the Great Interoceanic Canal and the creation of its management structure»… It has become known that the project’s investor is Empresa Desarrolladora de Grandes Infraestructuras S.A. (EDGISA). The Authority of the Great Interoceanic Canal and EDGISA have signed a contract with the Chinese company HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, which has been given the authority to develop the project… The operator company HKND Group Holdings Limited, which was registered on the Cayman Islands in November 2012, is managed by experienced Chinese businessman Wang Jing, who enjoys support at the highest state level…
On the Threshold of Geneva II: The U.S. Wager on Moderate Islam in Syria an Utter Failure
22.01.2014 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
On the eve of the international Middle East peace conference scheduled to take place January 22 in Geneva, the situation in Syria has again abruptly taken a turn for the worse. Various groups of Islamists have entered into a fierce armed conflict. Casualties on both sides have already greatly exceeded 1000 people. The troublemaker was the Islamic Front (IF), formed around two months ago from several groups and numbering approximately 50,000-60,000 fighters. On January 3 its troops attacked armed groups from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has proclaimed itself part of al-Qaeda and is estimated to number up to 22,500 fighters, in several places…
Pyrrhic Victories over Geneva 2 Conference
22.01.2014 | 00:00 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The good thing is that the United Nations and the United Sates might have ‘won’ and ‘lost’ during the forty-eight hours in the run-up to the Geneva 2 conference scheduled to begin on Wednesday. Seldom has an international peace conference been held under such strange circumstances… The mystique of diplomacy is that sometimes what is won could turn out to be Pyrrhic victory. Has the US won a Pyrrhic victory?..
Obama’s Cosmetic Changes for NSA Surveillance Programs
21.01.2014 | 00:00 | Boris KAZANTSEV
On January 17, 2014 US President Barack Obama gave a 40-minute speech at the Justice Department describing his plans to reshape the intelligence activities of National Security Agency and the whole intelligence community… The United States government is not going to curtail its intelligence programs. It believes that the existing technical capability provides a solid ground for their implementation… The governments of the countries, which cherish hopes to remain active world politics actors, should tackle seriously the problem of information sovereignty. The United States holds a dialogue only when faced by equal force, it ignores anyone it finds to be not strong enough. It strives to establish its supremacy in all commons, this time it is information space its efforts are focused on…
Who is in the Driver’s Seat before Geneva-II
21.01.2014 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
Unquestionably, there would be no Geneva-II conference on Syria had it not been for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s brilliant tactical strategy of offering up a positive proposal from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Syria would turn over to the West all of his country’s chemical weapons in order to avoid a Western military attack… In the week before the commencement of the January 22 Geneva-II talks, Assad is in the driver’s seat. To the contrary of what the United States and the other Western powers want, Assad will continue to play a dominant role in Syrian political life, merely because of his own tenacity and the total collapse of the anti-Assad coalition…
Geneva-2: Keeping Iran Away Matches US – Saudi Interests
20.01.2014 | 00:04 | Nikolai BOBKIN
An international peace conference for Syria will begin on January 22… There are great doubts the conference will succeed without Iran taking part or its support for the crisis management process after the conference is over… Today the global terrorist network is being reshaped. A great number of new, independent groups appear. Many of them get funds from the monarchies of the Persian Gulf. In the case of the United States of America and NATO it brings up the issue of revising the relationship with their traditional allies in the Middle East. It’s not about choosing between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but rather between terror and diplomacy or war and peace.
Israel Bites the Hand that Feeds… and Washington Keeps on Feeding
20.01.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The Strategic Consequences of Edward Snowden’s Revelations (II)
19.01.2014 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
…While some time ago scientists said that creating a quantum computer would take at least 100 years, now, according to Seth Lloyd, a leading specialist on quantum mechanics from MIT, one could say that the goal will be reached within the next decade, but no earlier than 5 years, as the scientists still have a lot of work to do in this field. As with any great invention, quantum computers could accomplish many grandiose tasks, including the creation of artificial intelligence. However, when the main initiator of their creation is the NSA, it is not thoughts of the benefit of humanity that come to mind, but thoughts of the establishment of total control over humanity…
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