16 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Saudi Option of Yemen War to Blow Iran P5+1 Deal
16.05.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The Obama White House pulled out all the stops this week to indulge the «insecure» Persian Gulf Arab oil sheikhdoms. The assurances lavished by President Obama on his guests – with meetings in the Oval Office and later at the presidential retreat Camp David – may assuage Arab feelings of insecurity in the short-term… But there seems little doubt that the bitter relations that have been festering between the Saudi-led GCC and its main Western patron in Washington will continue to deepen and corrode the «extraordinary relationship» that Obama tried to talk up…
Ukraine Deceives Europe
16.05.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander DONETSKY
Is Washington Coming To Its Senses?
15.05.2015 | 17:23 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
There is much speculation about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s rush visit to Russia in the wake of Russia’s successful Victory Day celebration on May 9. …The celebration in Moscow made it clear that Washington has failed miserably to isolate Russia. What Washington has done is to make the BRICS more unified. With the President of China sitting at the right hand of Putin, the celebration also made it completely clear even to the morons in the Obama regime that Washington is no longer the Uni-power.
Banks Rule the World, but Who Rules the Banks? (II)
15.05.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
…Here we can recall a study by specialists from the Zurich Institute of Technology in Switzerland, the aim of which was to reveal the controlling core of the global economic and financial system. In 2011, the Swiss specialists calculated that there were 1,128 companies and banks at the core of global finance at the beginning of the financial crisis (2007). An even denser core of 147 companies was revealed within this conglomerate. The authors of the study estimated that this smaller core controlled 40 per cent of all corporate assets in the world…
Banks Rule the World, but Who Rules the Banks? (I)
14.05.2015 | 09:44 | Valentin KATASONOV
These days, it is already a truism that the hegemony of the US is based on the Federal Reserve System’s (FRS) printing press… During the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, the FRS quietly gave out more than $16 trillion worth of credit (virtually interest free) to various banks. The owners of the money gave out the credit to themselves, that is to the main shareholder banks of the Federal Reserve… While the makeup of the Federal Reserve’s main shareholders is more or less clear, however, the same cannot be said of the shareholders of those banks who essentially own the FRS’ printing press. Who exactly are the shareholders of the Federal Reserve’s shareholders?..
What’s in a Name? Political Correctness
14.05.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
The corporate media in the West has imposed another rule on journalists that is straight out of George Orwell’s 1984 Newspeak dictionary. Place names in Ukraine that have been used by journalists, historians, novelists, and others for decades are now to be spelled according to the diktats of the Ukrainian government, its diaspora activists and lobbyists around the globe, and a class of non-governmental organization employees who are well-paid to police the Internet for «violators»…
Will Carpathian Sich Kill Hungarian Activists?
13.05.2015 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH
The relationship between nationalities in Transcarpathia is delicate enough – reckless steps can break the peace. Taras Deyak, the commander of Carpathian Sich, a battalion of punishers, threatened to eliminate the activists of Hungarian minority… By threatening to take actions against representatives of Yobbik and HVIM in Transcarpathia the Carpathian Sich crossed the red line dividing the killings of dissenters inside the country (Oleg Buzina, Oleg Kalashnikov, others) from physical threats directed against the citizens of neighboring state…
Golden Prague was Liberated by Soviet Tanks
12.05.2015 | 11:31 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
The Color Revolution in Macedonia Is Underway
12.05.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
The diabolical plan to destabilize Macedonia by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily, and Macedonian «social democratic» opposition leaders Zoran Zaev and Branko Crvenkovski – who could be called the «Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Petro Poroshenko of Macedonia» – has entered a critical phase with members of the supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) increasing their terrorist border incursions on Macedonian territory from Kosovo…
Meetings in Moscow and West’s Foreign Policy Gaffes
11.05.2015 | 18:52 | Alexei BALIEV
The absence of Western leaders at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in Moscow on May 9 demonstrates the myopy of the West, according to Italian ex-PM, leader of the «Forza, Italia» party Silvio Berlusconi who published an open letter in Italian Corriera della Sera newspaper… One can understand his feelings. The leaders of China, India, Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, Mongolia and many other states came to Moscow on Victory Day. Against this background the absence of those who lead the member states of North Atlantic Alliance became a minor event. It was not as important as Western leaders tried to paint it…
War Threat Rises as Economy Declines
11.05.2015 | 10:59 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
…Washington’s aggression and blatant propaganda have convinced Russia and China that Washington intends war, and this realization has drawn the two countries into a strategic alliance. Russia’s May 9 Victory Day celebration of the defeat of Hitler is a historical turning point. Western governments boycotted the celebration, and the Chinese were there in their place. For the first time Chinese soldiers marched in the parade with Russian soldiers, and the president of China sat next to the president of Russia…
Washington versus Beijing: Curbing the Yuan
11.05.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
Kerry’s Message to Somalia: Beef up Military
10.05.2015 | 12:34 | Wayne MADSEN
Secretary of State John Kerry came off, once again, sounding like «Johnny One Note» on the first-ever visit by an American Secretary of State to Somalia. In his short three hour meeting with Somali leaders, including Somalia’s ineffective and powerless president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Kerry was confined to a sandbag-fortified security bivouac at Mogadishu airport because the Somali government has no control over its own capital city…
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