7 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Economics Wars and Economic Sanctions (II)
07.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
Economic sanctions are a set of measures that put pressure on a government to achieve predominantly political objectives. However, although sanctions lead to negative consequences in the economy of the sanctioned country, the ultimate political objectives are by no means always achieved. More often than not, they are not achieved at all. According to Gary Hufbauer a well-known American expert in this area, and his co-authors, who have documented 204 cases of sanctions, only about a third were successful… In many cases, economic sanctions have a stimulating and mobilising effect on the economy of sanctioned countries…
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Genocide against Serbs of Croatia: Did it Take Place?
07.02.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
The United Nations International Court of Justice delivered the verdict in the landmark case «Croatia vs. Serbia» on February 3. The Republic of Croatia filed the suit against Serbia in 1999 to accuse it of committing genocide during the armed conflict on the territory of former Yugoslavia in 1991-1994. The barefaced impudence comparable with the affirmations about Russia being «an aggressor» made Serbia respond…
Kerry Cementing Covert Deal of U.S. Arms Flow to Ukraine
06.02.2015 | 11:25 | Wayne MADSEN
…U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in the Ukrainian capital to obviously «seal the deal» on American «lethal defensive weapons» and military advisers being sent to Ukraine to help it battle self-determination seekers in the Donbass region. Although Kerry said in Kiev that the U.S. will not provide weapons to Ukraine, he is either naïve or lying about previous U.S. arms shipments to the Kiev authorities…
Munich Security Conference Report: Reading between Lines
06.02.2015 | 00:09 | Arkady DZIUBA
The 51st Munich Security Conference (MSC) kicks off on February 6. For three days military and political leaders, scholars, diplomats and journalists will discuss the acute problems of international security, global challenges to peace and stability on the planet and the ways to solve controversial issues. The Russian delegation will be headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov… The Munich security conference is a good platform for bringing Russia and Europe together. It can bring practical results if Europe restores the ability to act on its own.
Shaky World Order: Munich Security Conference Debates
06.02.2015 | 00:00 | Natalia MEDEN
German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time in the last 4 years will take part in the Munich security conference, which will take place February 6-8. Looks like Germany is seriously concerned over security issues… The US stance makes the German political elite split no matter it has become accustomed to obediently toe the line and follow Washington. Now Germans have to guess what coded signals they get from overseas…
RIC Wades into Asia-Pacific Waters
05.02.2015 | 09:50 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The meeting of the Russia-India-China [RIC] forum at the level of foreign ministers, which was held in Beijing on February 2, had an extraordinary setting. For sure, the power dynamic within the RIC is dramatically transforming what with the notable improvement in the climate of India-China relations in the past six-month period and with a big upswing in the Sino-Russian partnership, which in turn lends the forum much gravitas…
Economics Wars and Economic Sanctions (I)
05.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
An analysis of economic wars from the 19th to the 21st centuries shows that, in an overwhelming number of cases, they primarily pursued and are pursuing political objectives… America’s ruling elite and its allies use neutral words like ‘economic sanctions’, ‘trade and economic restrictions’, ‘moratorium’, ‘embargoes’ and so on. As a rule, however, these restrictions, moratoriums and embargoes in combination can have a powerful effect designed to undermine an enemy’s economy, provoke social unrest, force a regime change and change political policies. The combination of economic sanctions introduced by the West against Russia in 2014 could undoubtedly be characterised as a full-scale economic war…
NATO is Already at War in Ukraine… and it is Losing
05.02.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
In yet another sleight of hand, Western news media are this week spinning the notion that the US and NATO are «considering sending lethal military aid» in order «to defend» the Kiev regime from «Russian aggression». That’s a pathetic joke. The real explanation is that NATO is losing its war in Ukraine and needs to send more military fuel in order to salvage the mounting losses… NATO is at war in Ukraine and has been so for the past year, if not covertly for the past two decades…
Yalta – 1945 Cannot Be Repeated in 2015
04.02.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
The current Western leaders thoughtlessly squander the legacy of Yalta left by the Big Three Alliance that saved the world from total enslavement by Nazism 70 years ago. It was the principle of equality that enabled the Alliance to act effectively. Today the world faces no less serious challenges. The West’s attempts to isolate Russia may make the contemporary problems insurmountable.
Turkey and Gazprom. The geopolitics of pipelines
04.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
…The year 2019, when Russian gas will bypass Ukraine and go through Turkey, will be here soon. Somewhere that is well understood. In particular, in Hungary. The prime minister of that country, Viktor Orban, stated that anti-Russian sanctions «were in conflict with Hungary’s interests,» and that he intends, in his words, «to come to terms with Russia on a gas agreement» during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest. Putin arrives in the Hungarian capital on February 17th.
American Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine is a Throwback to Iran-Contra Days
03.02.2015 | 10:20 | Wayne MADSEN
It was inevitable. As calls increased by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and NATO military commander General Philip Breedlove, among others, for lethal military equipment to be shipped by the United States to the putschist regime of Ukraine, a flurry of Ukrainian cargo transports landing at military supply airports in the United States and Europe hearkened back to the days when non-descript transports plied the world’s air routes clandestinely and simultaneously delivering weapons to Iran and Nicaraguan rebel forces…
Islamic State Opens Third Front in Afghanistan
03.02.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
…The US does not rush to recognize the fact of Islamic State’s presence in Afghanistan, but Kabul does not deny the information that the group’s militants coming from Syria and Iraq are operating in the country… The Islamic State would like to open a third front in Afghanistan (after Iraq and Syria)… In the south the Islamic State is trying to split the Taliban to make the group’s militants join its ranks… The leaders of Pakistani Taliban have already pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and are ready to contribute into the creation of Islamic Caliphate…
US-Cuban Rapprochement: Remedy to the Growing Isolation of the US in Latin America?
02.02.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
It is important to pay attention to the events in Latin America. Not only are the events there indicative of regional changes, but they are also indicative to events in Eurasia. The US decline in the Middle East and Washington’s increasing tensions with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China are playing out in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America…
Mission Imperative: Why the West and Kiev Regime Must Kill the Truth
02.02.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The detention, incommunicado, of two female Russian journalists over the weekend by Kiev’s secret police, the SBU, was said to be on the grounds of «national security»… The targeting of journalists in Ukraine is a stark exposure of the West’s fraudulent claims of venerating the right to free speech, which the West made such a song and dance about over the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris last month. But, more importantly, the genuine operation of independent media coverage in Ukraine is a mortal threat to the existence of the Western-backed regime…
Argentine Prosecutor Mysteriously Dies as CIA Steps up Efforts to Topple President Kirchner
31.01.2015 | 21:10 | Nil NIKANDROV
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot dead on 18 January, a pistol by his side. He had been hours away from outlining his accusations against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at a congressional hearing. The prosecutor was to deliver a report on the investigation of Argentina’s worst terrorist attack – a bombing in 1994 that killed 85 people and left dozens wounded at a Jewish community centre… Mr. Nissan’s death rocked the country…
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