22 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Information Terrorism
22.03.2014 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Press and TV offer imagination striking reports: buses and cars burning, barricades and people in masks throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at police and snipers taking their aims. This time it’s not Ukraine but fashionable city areas in Venezuela. Western media presented the events as «people’s protests» bringing the Maduro’s regime on the verge of collapse and expediting the restoration of «real democracy»… The coup attempt in Venezuela made independent observers talk about the wave of terrorism launched by information agencies, first of all: Associated Press, United Press, Reuters, France Press and Spanish EFE…
How the West Is Reacting to the Reunification of Crimea and Russia
21.03.2014 | 00:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV
At first it seemed like everything was going according to the 1945 Allen Dulles plan, which supposedly no one has ever seen, but which America has been following faithfully for many decades. In the very beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, Western political leaders quoted in unison the political dictionary created at the start of the Cold War which has become a time-honored reference when assessing any events connected with Russia: Russia is a totalitarian regime, the Russian leader is a dictator, Russian foreign policy is imperialist…
Russia Becoming More Visible on Caribbean Shores
21.03.2014 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Russia intends to take a more active role on the international arena, including in the Western Hemisphere… Over the past decade, the Russian government has made significant efforts to rebuild and further strengthen Russia’s position in Cuba and Nicaragua. A stable political dialog with Havana has been established on the highest level. The former (USSR era) level of strategic partnership has been rebuilt… Russia and Nicaragua renewed economic ties and military cooperation after the return of Daniel Ortega, the leader of the Sandinista revolution, to power…
Crimea’s Reunification with Russia and National Self-Determination Trends in Europe, Time for Peoples to Decide Their Own Fates
20.03.2014 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
The Crimea’s return to Russia is a hot issue, but it’s not something absolutely extraordinary for Europe. Pretty soon the international community’s attention will switch over to other important and unexpected events related to the desire of peoples to implement their right to self-determination… The peoples’ right to self-determination does not only presuppose a partition in case they don’t want to live together, but also unification if it meets the prevailing aspirations. Russia has overcome the negative trends emerged as a result of imposed disintegration and stepped on the different path of consolidation. That’s why the White House is so vibrant in its opposition to what is happening around Ukraine. The great strategic plan of «continents big game» is getting frustrated. As the history goes to show – Crimea is just the first step.
Sensational News in the World of Finance
20.03.2014 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
Recently the British newspaper The Guardian, and then the Bloomberg news agency, reported sensational news: over the week of March 5 through 12, the reserves of U.S. treasury securities in the depositary of the Federal Reserve System decreased by $104.5 billion… Neither the Federal Reserve nor the U.S. Treasury Department is giving any details on the reduction in U.S. treasury securities reserves. But there are theories. Almost all analysts agree that the withdrawal of securities from the Federal Reserve’s depository was made by Russia, but experts differ in their opinions on the subsequent fate of the withdrawn securities…
West and Neo-Nazism in Ukraine (I)
19.03.2014 | 00:00 | Vladimir SEDOV
About a hundred years have passed as Anglo-Saxon elite made another attempt to use Nazism for launching a ram attack against Russia. This time the role of Germany in the 1930s is to be played by Ukraine of our time, or to be more precise, the segment of Ukraine’s society which has failed to draw lessons from WWII. The five months of Ukraine’s «nationalist revolution» offer ample food for thought allowing to get to the bottom of what is behind the staged coup, what goals it pursues and who acts as its driving force…
Bugaboo Stories about Bank War against Russia
19.03.2014 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
Crimea Referendum Results at First Glance
18.03.2014 | 09:30 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs official statement, the recognition of the Crimea referendum results would meet the interests of Ukraine and its people. Left-wing MPs in Germany call on the West to accept the results of Crimea referendum… Gregor Gysi, a parliamentary head of the largest lower-house opposition party in Germany – the Left Party – has spoken out against German Chancellor’s unquestioning support of the coup-appointed Ukrainian government… The observers from France and Poland said there were no violations and the procedures corresponded to international norms… Polish MP Mateusz Piskorsky, who headed the Polish group of observers, said, that «everything was quiet, peaceful and up to major international standards»…
Independence Referenda Only Count when Washington and its Allies Say They Count
18.03.2014 | 00:12 | Wayne MADSEN
The parliament of the former Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea voted in a referendum to declare independence from Ukraine and petition the Russian Federation to join it as an autonomous republic. The vote was 96.7 per cent in favor of leaving Ukraine. Although some Crimean Tatar leaders called for a boycott of the Crimea vote, high voter turnout was reported across Crimea, including in primarily Tatar voting districts. Observers from the European Parliament, Poland, the European Union, France, Germany, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Austria stated that the election was fair and turnout across the board was high…
Crimean ‘Check’ on Western Machinations in Ukraine
18.03.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
American geo-strategic planners are fond of the chess game analogy, as articulated foremost by former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. In the wake of the resounding vote for Crimean unification with Russia at the weekend, it may be said that this move by the Crimean electorate declares a «check» on Washington’s machinations in the Ukraine…
American Anti-Maidan
17.03.2014 | 12:38 | Irina LEBEDEVA
The Answer Coaltion held a meeting in front of the White House under the slogan «No Funding for Neo-Nazis in Ukraine!» (1) on March 12, just prior to the meeting between President Obama and Ukraine’s new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The organization has launched a new campaign to flood Congress and the White House with thousands of emails demanding that not one cent of taxpayers’ money be spent for the new Ukrainian government where neo-Nazis and semi-fascists hold many of the most powerful Cabinet positions including the Ukraine’s military. The organization’s website makes public concrete data on the new Ukraine’s regime personalities and offers strong judgments on antinational and fascist in nature putsch staged in Kiev…
Crimea declares independence, seeks UN recognition
17.03.2014 | 10:59 |
The Republic of Crimea has addressed the UN seeking recognition as a sovereign state and called on Russia to integrate it into the Russian Federation. 96.77 percent of the Crimean population voted ‘for’ the integration in a referendum. “The Republic of Crimea intends to build its relations with other states on the basis of equality, peace, mutual neighborly cooperation, and other generally agreed principles of political, economic and cultural cooperation between states,” the legislation says…
Turkey and Crimea
16.03.2014 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
On 16 March, the people of Crimea will independently determine their own future. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority of Crimeans (75-80 percent) have already decided in favour of becoming part of the Russian Federation. Crimea is being given a unique opportunity to reunite with its historic homeland. Several days ago, Barak Obama called the overthrow of the legitimate authorities in Kiev a triumph of democracy. Now Crimea will give President Obama a lesson in democracy…
Passions Running High over Ukraine, or EU Living in Inverted World
16.03.2014 | 00:00 | Alexander GAPONENKO
Inverted World is a 1974 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest. The united Europe is described as a city slowly being winched along on four railroad tracks northward toward an ever-moving, mysterious «optimum». Its people travel across the earth on railway tracks being pursued by a destructive gravitational field. The city’s engineers must work to lay fresh track for the city, and pick up the old track as it moves. The ruling faction works to ensure that the people are unaware that the city is even moving. The city enters into crisis as its population decreases, the people grow unruly, and it becomes more and more difficult to stay ahead of the destructive field… Here is the latest news from the railway track being laid fresh. On March 13 the European Parliament adopted an extravagant resolution Invasion of Ukraine by Russia condemning Russia’s actions in Crimea and supporting the putschists who have grabbed power in Kiev…
Referendum in Crimea: US Faces Fundamental Choice
15.03.2014 | 17:03 | Boris NOVOSELTSEV
…Moscow is sure that it would serve the interests of the United States and Russia-US dialogue, which is extremely important for the fate of the world, if America treated the right of Crimea to self-determination with the same respect as Russia does. The recognition of Crimea referendum results and the consequences it will entail may not be an easy thing to do for the US, but it will show the way out of the blind alley Ukraine happened to be in because of the West’s policies while the rest of the world also risks to join falling into the same trap…
Ukraine: Pawn in Game Played by Others
15.03.2014 | 16:52 | Vladimir NESTEROV
…For three months the United States did its best to make the situation shaky and it believes the outcome brings decisive advantages, the regime change in Kiev has drastically changed the situation. Chaos and anarchy have spread across the major part of Ukraine giving a rise to the movement of resistance in the south-eastern part of the country, especially in Crimea. Today the peninsula practically remains to be the only haven of law and order in the country. Many Ukrainians believe that what has happened is the result of greed and mistakes committed by the country»s leadership. They have a reason. But there is a more fundamental cause triggering the tragedy suffered by the 45-million nation – Ukraine has become a pawn in the geopolitical game played by the United States on the Eurasian chessboard…
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