7 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Ukraine – Country Ruled By Most Corrupt Regime in the World
07.03.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
If somebody asked those who joined the Maidan protests a year ago what were the reasons for doing so, they would probably say that the rampant corruption was the last straw. The protests have become a thing of the past, the government has changed, and corruption has spread to be become practically all-pervading. The corruption in Ukraine is a unique and unparalleled phenomenon. The old hierarchic corruption system had its own rules and restrictions. Now corruption has no boundaries going out of running control…
The Second Wave of the Global Financial Crisis Is Just around the Corner
06.03.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
…The former head of the FRS, Alan Greenspan, notes that the real sector of the US economy is recovering much more slowly than the financial market. There is an imbalance developing that could result in the emergence of an enormous financial bubble, and US banks and funds as well as investors around the world will take it upon themselves to inflate it. At present, there is much that is reminiscent of the situation on the eve of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis.
Kerry Re-writes History of U.S. Support for Color Revolutions
06.03.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry either has a blind spot when it comes to the last 15 years of U.S. foreign policy or he told a big whopping lie in Geneva. Kerry, in defining U.S. action in Ukraine, said that «We [the United States] are not involved in multiple color revolutions». Someone in Kerry’s position should know better…
US PMCs Used for Arms Supplies to Ukraine
05.03.2015 | 00:00 | Boris NOVOSELTSEV
CyberBerkut is a group of Ukrainian hackers set to fight neo-fascism, nationalism and power abuse in Ukraine. It has gained access to the files on the mobile device of the Green Group PMC (private military company) official who has recently visited Kiev as a member of American military delegation… Two letters of Gregg Holmes, the CEO of the PMC, to the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff Muzhenko became public domain…
Netanyahu’s Speech in Washington: The Breaking of a Taboo is Now Permitted
04.03.2015 | 09:11 | Wayne MADSEN
…After Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conspired with Republican U.S. House Speaker John Boehner for the Israeli prime minister to give an address to a joint session of Congress, his third — a distinction that Netanyahu shares only with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — and without the knowledge of the Obama administration, all gloves are off. Never before in the history of the United States has a foreign leader been invited to denounce a sitting American president from the same pulpit where the American president delivers the traditional State of the Union address…
War in Ukraine: Price Tag is Measured in Billions of Dollars
04.03.2015 | 09:07 | Dmitriy SEDOV
…The US political class is re-evaluating the Ukraine’s crisis. Washington wants to launch a proxy war in the Russia’s geopolitical space, but the Ukraine’s military and the volunteer formations of nationalists have so far failed to defeat the separated republics. Provoking a war is a strategic goal for the United States. If the Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics stay undefeated, the plan of bringing the post-Soviet space under NATO control will be frustrated. And this control is the cornerstone of the strategic program aimed at establishing the US dominance in the world…
Washington Yanks British Bulldog into Line
04.03.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
In a brazen show of bringing-to-heel in their «special relationship», American political and Pentagon chiefs are openly rebuking the British government to maintain its huge military spend on the NATO alliance – to the possible detriment of already withering public services in austerity-clobbered Britain. The imposition by Washington raises serious questions about the nature of democracy in Britain – the self-proclaimed «Mother of all Parliaments»…
Cyprus and Russia: «Work Together and In Focused Fashion»
03.03.2015 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA
…The issue of Ukraine and the sanctions war against Russia initiated by the United States make surface new trends to diversify the European political landscape. This is the background against which Nicos Anastasiades, the President of Cyprus, visited Russia on February 24-27… President Anastasiades emphasized that he opposed the idea of sanctions war with Russia. It’s not just a declaration; this point of view is supported by Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Together they constitute a force to reckon with which exerts certain influence on European politics bringing closer the day when such anomaly as anti-Russian economic sanctions will become a thing of the past…
Netanyahu’s Speech to the US Congress Really Helps the Obama against Iran
03.03.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
…The disagreements between the Obama Administration and Netanyahu do not signal a divide between Israel and the US. The strategic relationship between Israel and the United States is still intact. Nor does the gap between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party over Netanyahu’s March 3 speech reflect divisions between Israel and the US as much as it represents divisions among the US political establishment, specifically between the realists and the neo-conservatives…
‘Christian US’ Overseeing End of Christianity in Mideast
02.03.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The latest brutal persecution of Christians in Syria and Iraq by extremists belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group is putting ancient communities at risk of extinction… The US-led illegal occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, air strikes on Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, along with proxy wars in Libya and Syria, have all been tightly correlated with the surge in Al Qaeda-type terror groups. It should therefore be obvious that US policy in the Middle East is the source of the problem…
Reasons for Hryvnia’s Collapse
02.03.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
By the end of «black Wednesday», Feb. 25, the Ukrainian currency exchange rate went down to 33 hryvnias to the dollar and never bounced back. It also plummeted as low as 50-60 hryvnias at the black market to stay there. The official rate was around 15 hryvnias to the dollar in mid-February… In general, the reason for the currency collapse is the economic crisis transforming into a national disaster. Ukrainian Prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has acknowledged recently that the economy dropped 20 % in 2014… According to the recently published forecasts, the GDP is to fall by 5, 5 % in 2015. The yearly inflation is estimated to be 25-26%. The crisis has also spread to banks…
Old Senile Men and Westphalian Fascism
01.03.2015 | 14:02 | Wayne MADSEN
The leading Republican war hawk in the U.S. Senate, Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain of Arizona, in a single week, misused his position to entertain arcane testimony from three decrepit agents of U.S. power politics… It is clear that what McCain, Kissinger, Scowcroft, and Brzezinski want maintained is an ever-expanding federalized European Union, which is now slowly absorbing as its newest Westphalian nation-state underlings, Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova…
Turkmenistan Confronts Threat from South
01.03.2015 | 00:00 | Alexei BALIEV
The US and NATO war in Afghanistan has come to a formal end. As expected, it resulted in further aggravation of the situation on the southern borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The 745 km long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border has become the hottest spot. The Taliban attacks have intensified since the spring of 2014 to become even more threatening than before. In January 2015, Ashgabat started mobilization to last till the end of March. The threat is serious enough to make Turkmenistan build additional fortifications at the frontier with Afghan Jowzjan Province to include a 6 meter deep ditch and barbed wire fencing with 2 meter high concrete pillars in between…
Republishing is welcomed with reference to Strategic Culture Foundation on-line journal www.strategic-culture.org.
The New Dark Age 
Leave a comment