22 November 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Biden in Kiev on US Regime-Change Victory Tour
22.11.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
US vice president Joe Biden flew into Kiev this week to celebrate the anniversary of the Maidan protests that led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s government. With arms waving and his wife in tow, as he stepped off Air Force One, the spectacle was tantamount to an unctuous victory lap for American regime change in the former Soviet republic. The fact that Biden’s son, Hunter, was also appointed as a board member of Ukrainian gas company Burisma since the regime took over adds a certain personal dimension to the American celebrations of this coup…
West Must Not Encroach on Russia’s Interests in Post-Soviet Space
21.11.2014 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA
CIA Assassination Furthered Dutch Neo-Colonialism
21.11.2014 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
It has been the policy of the Barack Obama administration to oppose the granting of independence by European colonial powers to any more territories in the Caribbean. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the leaders and people of six Dutch territories in the Caribbean in July 2013 that the Netherlands was prepared to grant independence to the islands but that the United States was adamantly against the idea… But how far has the Obama administration and the freewheeling Central Intelligence Agency gone in order to prevent any newly-independent nations in the Caribbean? Some suggest that under its thuggish director, John O. Brennan, the CIA engaged in political assassination to help drive home its point…
Europe Veering From US Abyss Over Russia?
20.11.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
It’s long overdue but better late than never that Europe might just be back-pedalling on America’s aggressive agenda towards Russia. The business-like visit to Moscow this week by Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggests that Europe can come to its senses to seek a diplomatic resolution of the escalating tensions over the Ukraine crisis… The new EU foreign policy chief Frederica Morgherini, formerly the Italian minister, has recently expressed misgivings about the effectiveness of sanctions. Morgherini took over from Britain’s Catherine Ashton who was instrumental in the Western regime-change operation in Kiev and who had displayed a pathetic servility to Washington. Other European states are also increasingly finding a more critical voice towards what they see as senseless and self-defeating hostility against Russia…
The Wolves of Wall Street Will Not Feed the American Sheep
20.11.2014 | 00:00 | Elena PUSTOVOITOVA
On Nov. 12 the Financial Times, reported that regulators in the UK, US, and Switzerland have fined the five biggest international banks a total of $3.2 billion for manipulating foreign-exchange rates… The banks’ currency traders agreed to fix exchange rates on the world market in order to boost their own profits. This was no small-potatoes scam – as much as $5.4 trillion changes hands every day on the Forex market… Steen Jakobsen, chief economist of Saxo Bank, claims that never before has there been such a huge gap between economic reality and perception, but «the world is not ending, it’s getting ready for a new beginning …»
APEC Summit Over: Hobbled Hegemon and Assertive Leader
19.11.2014 | 00:00 | Alexander SALITZKI
The dialogue between the US and Chinese leaders was a major event at the recent APEC summit that wound up last week. Before that the US President visited China in 2009. A lot of things related to the bilateral relationship have changed since then – with its global clout grown, China has become increasingly confident and assertive. The title of the article A Beleaguered Barack Obama Goes to Meet a Confident Xi Jinping at APEC published by US weekly Times mirrors the things almost precisely as they are…
A North Korean Trio’s Quick Spurt down South
19.11.2014 | 00:00 | Alexander VORONTSOV
…Until Washington turns away from a paradigm based on regime change in the DPRK as soon as possible and at any cost, the door leading toward an improved relationship between the two Koreas will quickly begin to close. And yet it is the Koreans themselves who will have the last word in determining the fate of their divided people…
US and Europe Conceal Their Bankruptcy with Hostility to Russia
18.11.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
…Worldwide, the economic outlook is grim, according to even the pro-Western International Monetary Fund’s latest assessment. So, you would think that top of the agenda for the G20 summit last weekend should be how governments are coordinating recovery efforts to get people back into work, relaunch economies with massive public investment, boost social welfare to mitigate rising poverty, and rebalance the explosion of inequality between capital and labour. No. Obama and European leaders sought instead to shift the focus from economics to «security» and in particular to add more international pressure on Russia over the Ukraine crisis…
Nuclear Security and President Obama
18.11.2014 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA
Russia skipped preparatory meetings informing that it no longer planned to participate in the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit… Russia is the only state in possession of nuclear capability comparable to that of the United States. Its participation is crucial for the success of efforts to enhance nuclear security. By refusing to take part in the 2016 event to be held in the United States Russia strikes a telling blow against Washington. What prompted it to do so? The problem has two aspects – one is generally of political nature while the other is related to nuclear security…
The War in Rojava: Kobani’s Fall is a Prerequisite to an Invasion of Syria (II)
17.11.2014 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
…The war on the ISIL has been presented by the US and its allies as a new war against a new enemy, but it is in fact a continuation of the war against Syria and all of Syria’s people, including the Syrian Kurds. For decades many of the Kurds wrongly thought that the US supports them. Instead Washington and players like Israel have geopolitically manipulated them time and time again. While Kurds have hoped for help from US military jets, even if they are illegally bombing Syria, they have instead found themselves being killed by US tanks and arms in the hands of the ISIL. Among many of the Syrian Kurds it is an open secret that the battle for Ayn Al-Arab or Kobani has really been about controlling the Syrian-Turkish border and forcing the Syrian Kurds to fall into line with the objectives of Ankara and Washington…
Weapons and Manpower for a Color Revolution in Venezuela
17.11.2014 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Reports surface in the Latin American media with alarming regularity about seizures by law-enforcement agencies of large shipments of US-made weapons. Such events are becoming noticeably more frequent in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Argentina – countries that the Obama administration considers unfriendly. But most often, news of the discovery of arms caches comes from Venezuela…
Cameron the Euro Demagogue Creates Own Nightmare
16.11.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
November, the month associated with Halloween and spooky forces, appears to be presenting British Prime Minister David Cameron with a nightmare that could end up resulting in his head rolling as leader of the Conservative Party… With only months to go before the British General Election, Cameron’s coalition government is coming apart at the seams. At the root of Cameron’s fears is the meteoric rise of the far-right UK Independence Party. Fervently anti-immigration and anti-European Union, the UKIP is stealing voters away from the centre-right Conservatives…
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