24 January 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
On the Possible Losses for Banks Should the West’s Economic War against Russia Continue
24.01.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
…Despite the difficulty of a comparison, one can nevertheless argue with some confidence that the foreign assets of Russian banks in the narrow sense of the term (international claims) are significantly less than the total claims of foreign banks on Russian banks and companies. At the same time, however, the foreign assets of Russian banks are located almost exclusively in those countries involved in economic sanctions against Russia. Should the West impose any kind of sanctions on the foreign assets of Russian banks, then this could have a painful impact on the Russian banking system. In this regard, the task of withdrawing Russia’s banking assets from Western countries and moving them to other jurisdictions is crucial, first and foremost to countries in the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union, and then to BRICS countries.
Charlie Hebdo’s stormtroopers, or, Europe will be Europe
24.01.2015 | 00:00 | Natalia MEDEN
…That day Paris was protesting the brutal execution of human beings in broad daylight. During the 13-year occupation of Afghanistan, France has lost 86 people, but here – only a half dozen had died over the course of two days. France was in shock – the sale of sedatives rose by 18% throughout the country. When thousands of people were dying somewhere in the Middle East or Ukraine, the French paid little notice – after all, they say, the people who live there can work it out themselves. But then the killings began in the center of Paris… The demonstration in the French capital was called a «March for Tolerance», but politicians began hiding behind this flag to play dubious games. Public opinion was diverted in such a way that the solidarity of people who were protesting terror now looked like blanket approval of the taunts made by the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists…
America’s Altered State of Consciousness
23.01.2015 | 10:40 | Dmitriy SEDOV
Psychiatry defines the altered state of consciousness or mind alteration as a mental state which significantly deviates from the normal waking beta wave state of consciousness. Reading attentively the US President Obama’s State of the Union address the question pops up if the President really sees the world as he describes it in his speeches or is it kind of Walt Disney’s animated cartoons-style fantasies specially prepared for US internal consumption? Americans are accustomed to consume such products. Numerous Hollywood-produced Rambos, movie-made high-minded presidents and daring private Ryans regularly save the world from some kind of plague. It’s been a long time since they have used information hypnosis to make Americans believe that their country is «the best of the best» and an American is the acme of human evolution…
Hypocrisy Empire (II)
23.01.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
This is the year of great events in the United States as the country marks the 150-year anniversary of the Civil War. No other moment of American history has influenced more its national self-identification. The war has become an inalienable part of political mythology and a symbol of atonement as the country washed away the sin of slavery established in the society since the nation was born. It is perceived as the triumph of good over evil. In reality it was not a war to free slaves – this perception has nothing to do with real historic events and shows how hypocritical the whole US national ideology is. The free interpretation of national history to foster the self-esteem of Americans and the US prestige leads to the same attitude practiced by American researchers toward the historic heritage of other countries as well…
Russia-Iran Military Cooperation Agreement – Step Ahead to Strategic Cooperation
22.01.2015 | 11:29 | Nikolai BOBKIN
Russia and Iran have signed a military agreement. This is the first time an inter-governmental military cooperation agreement has been concluded in the centuries-old history of bilateral relations… It’s the first and only military cooperation agreement concluded by Iran with another country. It’s much more important for Iran than the implementation of the obsolete S-300 contract, something the US is concerned about so much. The US has not learned the lesson that Russia taught it by developing military ties with Egypt.
Davos – 2015
22.01.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The Forum is best known for its annual winter meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden located in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland… The Forum appears to be democratic from outside but its activities are more and more questioned every year. More often it comes under harsh criticism. Experts remember that the WEF generated the ideas of economic globalization to meet the interests of transnational corporations. The critical remarks are made on different aspects of the Forum’s activities… Davos-2015 will probably be the most difficult WEF meeting for Russia. It can be the last one. The romance that has lasted between Russia and the West for more than twenty years is over.
The CIA in Latin America: From Coups to Torture and Preemptive Killings
22.01.2015 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
The observations made by the Venezuelan journalist José Vicente Rangel are generally regarded as well informed and accurate. For the television program Los Confidenciales («Reliable Sources») he recently reported on the work of the supplemental staff at CIA stations in Latin America. According to Rangel, at least 500 reinforcements have arrived at the US Embassy and other US headquarters in South America in order to help the other operatives escalate their subversive and espionage activities. Those agents are focusing on countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba… The operational positions of US intelligence services in Latin America have branched out and are now capable of carrying out destabilizing operations…
War and the Dollar
21.01.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
…World War III will be fundamentally different than anything the world has ever seen. It will begin without an official proclamation. And although we remain unaware until the end, this war has most likely already begun. It will include the use of mercenaries (private military contractors), reliance on support from a fifth column within certain countries, the active use of «Maidan» technology, the involvement of the Washington-controlled media, the proclamation of economic sanctions, etc. This undeclared war is being waged under the guise of a war against terrorism, «radical Islam», «Russian aggression», violations of human rights, etc. etc. Over the course of this undeclared world war, the money masters (the Fed’s shareholders) will resolve all the problems the dollar has amassed… In any event, there is no reason to expect global instability to abate. This instability is a sign of the dollar’s weakness and of the death throes of those who own the Federal Reserve’s banknote printing press. But like a wounded animal they will fight to the end.
Ukraine’s Dream About UN Reform
21.01.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
Yuriy A. Sergeyev, the Ukraine’ Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, said he dreams about creating a broad united front against Russia in the United Nations. The idea has failed as yet. The Ukraine’s Ambassador believes the UN Charter stands in the way of its implementation. If not for this anachronism, the problem could be solved easily. For instance, Russia could be expelled from the Security Council… The international community has to realize that in the absence of power able to counterbalance the hegemonic aspirations of the West the United Nations Organization will turn into an instrument of world totalitarianism to sanction aggressions and legitimize the overthrow of resistant governments…
Who Is Going to Auschwitz?
20.01.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
…Vladimir Putin can put up with the fact that he is not invited to the major event at Auschwitz marking 70 years since inmates of the Nazi death camp were liberated by the Red Army. No great pleasure to meet the sycophants who gather millions to take part in the Paris march to protest the death of journalists-provocateurs and watch indifferently as the Khatyn massacre is repeated in Odessa. They have chutzpah to say they don’t want to see in Auschwitz the head of state who ordered the attack against Ukraine. The sponsors of Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi regime believe it’s not expedient to invite the head of state claiming to be the successor of the Soviet Union – the country that liberated Auschwitz and a half of Europe. But they find it expedient to invite the Chancellor of Germany who supports the Nazi regime in Ukraine to prove that it’s too early to affirm that Germans have successfully gone through denazification…
«Charlie Hebdo» and its Anti-Gentile Allies
20.01.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
In the wake of the terrorist attack against the French satirical newspaper «Charlie Hebdo,» it has become apparent that the magazine’s editorial chiefs killed in the attack on its headquarters in Paris and groups such as FEMEN and Pussy Riot are all connected in a campaign to disparage Islam and Christianity. In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the occasion of the memorial service in Paris attended by a number of world leaders to admonish France’s parliament for having recently recognized the independence of Palestine and urge France’s large Jewish population to emigrate to Israel…
EU Expansion Ideology: Gunnar Wiegand, Alain Le Roy and Federica Mogherini
19.01.2015 | 00:00 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY
…Today the time is propitious to remember the hackneyed question asked for the first time by Henry Kissinger “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?» Indeed, who should one call to make clear the Brussels’s goals as the EU whips up its anti-Russia rhetoric? Is it Federica Mogherini who still does not know well enough her way around as she took over the present EU position recently and who makes melodramatic statements?.. Or should one call the newly appointed Alain Le Roy who acts as a special advisor to Federica Mogherini till he takes office as the new Secretary General of the EEAS on March 1? Or is it Gunnar Wiegand who keeps on repeating that Russia illegally annexed Crimea and Sebastopol and destabilized the situation in the eastern Ukraine? No fruitful dialogue between Russia and the EU is possible until Europe sees the things the same way as the above mentioned officials do…
Frau Merkel and Social Networks
19.01.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no social network account of her own. At that many politicians use social communications to follow public opinion trends. They are right. Advisors are one thing, the public opinion is something else… By reading the posts Frau Merkel would realize that the majority of Germans want no conflict with Russia. Having summed up all the posts together for sending them to the Federal Chancellor’s office it may be expedient to add some excerpts from the recent interview of Mikhail Gorbachev with the German weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel… Having accused Germany of interfering in Ukraine’s crisis, he said, «The new Germany wants its hands in every pie. There seems to be a lot of people who want to be involved in a new division of Europe. Germany has already tried to expand its influence of power towards the East – in World War II. Does it really need another lesson?..
Ukrainian Leadership Decides in Favor of War
18.01.2015 | 00:21 | Pavel DMITRIEV
Has the countdown to the second Ukrainian War been launched? Or, perhaps, the second Ukrainian War has already been started?… The Kiev regime appears to underestimate the Russia’s resolve to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbass and further extermination of civil population there. On the other hand, it overestimates the West’s determination to support any military adventure initiated by Kiev, even if it is doomed from the start. The most dangerous thing is that those who came to power as a result of the Ukrainian «revolution of dignity» are ready to undertake a large-scale military provocation without previously consulting their Western partners. If Kiev really takes this step that the Ukrainian statehood will be doomed to reshape the political geography of Eastern Europe. There is a high probability the events will unfold this way.
Ukrainian Crisis and International Security (II)
18.01.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
…In recent years the UN failure has been exacerbated. The organization has frequently served as a cover for multiple non-government organizations operating in hot spots areas to serve the interests of US and West European structures… Many a time incompetent from legal point of view and politically motivated provocative speculations are offered to push for the international organization’s «reform» instead of nitty-gritty insight into the real reasons behind the ongoing crisis. Ukraine is leading the race. The objective of its attacks is the permanent Security Council’s members’ right of veto. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko calls on the UN to deprive Russia of its permanent seat in the Security Council… The establishment of the United Nations Organization with its present structure and principles is a major result of WWII. Is the UN in for the same fate as the League of Nations? Will the world community let it happen?
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