28 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Tony Blair and the Hidden Agenda of Serbian Policy
28.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
The appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as advisor to the head of the Serbian government, Aleksandar Vu?i?, has rocked the media. The Russian television channel RT referred to the decision as an attempt at the «political suicide» of the Serbian prime minister… The principle of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is a bad principle. Attempts to have a foot in both camps have little in common with the art of diplomacy and rarely end well…
Obama Incites Bloodshed in Venezuela
27.02.2015 | 16:04 | Nil NIKANDROV
The US special services together with their “assistants” from Canada and Great Britain tried again to stage a coup in Venezuela. In the middle of February, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the national security services frustrated the plans of US embassy and put an end to its hostile actions. As a result, a number of people were arrested, including Venezuelan air force officers and activists of radical opposition. The subversive activities were guided by Western diplomatic missions. The names of those behind the plot are known but they cannot be brought to justice being protected by diplomatic immunity…
Global Debt: The Tip and the Bulk of the Iceberg
27.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
Despite the chilling nature of the global debt and individual country debt figures cited in the report published by the well-known consulting firm McKinsey in February 2015, for the most part these figures are incomplete and underestimated. The situation is in fact far worse. This is clearly illustrated by the US, whose share of global debt is the largest…
Cypriot President Comes to Moscow: Russia’s Growing Presence in Mediterranean
26.02.2015 | 13:40 | Andrei AKULOV
On February 25, Russia and Cyprus signed an agreement on military-technical cooperation during the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades’ official visit to Russia. In particular, it envisages the use of airports and seaports of the Republic by Russian warplanes and warships in humanitarian operations and emergencies, as well as anti-terrorist operations…
Operation to Relocate Suleyman Shah Tomb Mirrors Turkey’s Geopolitical Agenda
26.02.2015 | 08:53 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
…Turkey pursues a long-term goal. President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu are staunch advocates of Neo-Ottomanism, a Turkish political ideology that promotes greater political engagement of the modern Republic of Turkey within regions formerly under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, its predecessor state, as well as within Eurasia…
Dresden and Poznan: Two Different Ways to Wage War
26.02.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
The Red Army and British-American forces had one enemy – the German Wehrmacht but quite often they waged different wars. The liberation of Polish city of Poznan by Red Army and the bombing of Dresden by allies – one event following another in a week – took place 70 years ago, February 1945. These examples provide a good illustration to support the point of view stated above…
NATO Finds Arab Backdoor to Arm Kiev
25.02.2015 | 19:29 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The announcement this week that the Kiev regime struck a major deal with the United Arab Emirates for military weapons raises strong suspicions that the US-led NATO alliance has found a new backdoor into Ukraine. We say «new» because it is believed that the US and its NATO allies, Poland and Lithuania, are already covertly supplying weapons to the Kiev regime…
CIA Torture Prisons in Poland
25.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valéry VRUBLEVSKY
The European Court of Human Rights confirmed on February 17 that the Polish government was complicit in the CIA’s secretive programme of rendition, detention and interrogation. The Court in Strasbourg rejected a challenge from the Polish government to a landmark ruling from last July, the decision which now makes that original judgement final… Poland is the first EU member to be found guilty of complicity in the CIA’s secret detention programme and responsible for multiple violations of the detainees’ rights…
Iran’s Golan «Third Front» and the Border Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah
25.02.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The strategic equation in the Middle East is about to see major changes. It strongly appears that the Iranian-led Resistance Bloc or Axis o Resistance — comprised of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and a cross-section of Palestinian and Iraqi groups — is about to become more powerful than ever before… Not only is the Resistance Bloc emerging more powerful, but Iran is becoming indispensable to the regional security architecture of everything east of Egypt in the Mashreq…
US Plans to Separate Kurdistan from Iraq
24.02.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
The Middle East faces the vicious circle of US-incited changes of regimes and the established borders of Arab states… The plundered Libya has ceased to be a unified state, Yemen is divided, and the integrity of Syria and Iraq is threatened. The Islamic State, a new product of US diplomacy, has emerged to control the territory larger than Great Britain… It’s not without reason Saudi Arabia is going to erect a 1000-km long wall at the Iraqi border to prevent the spread of chaos from Iraq to the Arabian Peninsula… The emergence of Iraqi Kurdistan, being to large extent dependent of US comprehensive aid, is not acceptable to Turkey…
Will Africa Leave International Criminal Court?
24.02.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
…Talking at the final session of the African Union summit, the new African Union chairman Robert Mugabe has recommended that Africa must pull out of the International Criminal Court. «What the West will say or do is not my business», he added. The withdrawal from the International Criminal Court has already been included into the official agenda of the African Union summit to be held in June this year.
Ukraine: Emergency Measures to Build Totalitarian State
23.02.2015 | 11:34 | Alexander DONETSKY
A Panorama of Global Debt
23.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
In February 2015, the well-known consulting firm McKinsey published a report on the global debt situation as of 2014. The report is called «Debt and (not much) deleveraging» and is based on data from 47 countries around the world. These include the majority of economically developed countries and the largest developing countries… It is noteworthy that the debt levels of ‘golden billion’ countries (so-called economically developed countries) are significantly higher than those of the majority of developing countries…
Deeply Divided on Ukraine, Russia and US Seek Ways to Fight Common Threats
22.02.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
Kolomoisky Is About to Devour Ukraine
21.02.2015 | 16:35 | Valentin KATASONOV
About a quarter century ago oligarchic capitalism started to grow in the soil of Ukraine. It is based on «natural selection» – oligarchs devour small and medium businesses, as well as state assets. With primitive capital accumulation resources coming to an end, oligarchs begin to devour each other… After the coup of 2014 the «natural selection» process in Ukraine abruptly accelerated… Rinat Akhmetov once was the leading oligarch in Ukraine, now he has left the world 100 wealthiest people list. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index brought him down from 88th to 121st… Now Petro Poroshenko and Igor Kolomoisky are reaching the final…
Whatever Became of Economists and the American Economy
21.02.2015 | 16:28 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
According to the official economic fairy tale, the US economy has been in recovery since June 2009. This fairy tale supports America’s image as the safe haven, an image that keeps the dollar up, the stock market up, and interest rates down… This fairy tale survives despite the fact that there is no economic information whatsoever that supports it…
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