30 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Will Moscow and Riyadh Get Closer?
30.05.2015 | 10:50 | Nikolai BOBKIN
…With King Salman becoming the head of state Saudi Arabia has entered a period of transformation. There is ground to believe the Kingdom will review its foreign policy priorities, including the relations with Russia. Until recently the bilateral relationship had been stable. The both sides had strived to keep up the balance in the region. But the Kingdom is an ally of the United States. It spoiled the things. This factor negatively affects the bilateral relationship…
Macedonian Crisis: Uneasy Conscience Betrays Itself
30.05.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
…According to the recent news from Skopje, Nikola Gruevski said he would join the Turkish Stream and let it pass across the country’s territory only on the condition the plan is approved by European Commission. As soon as he said that, the criticism against him began to die down. EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn is expected to visit the country on June 1. Together with US Ambassador Jess Baily (his participation gives an idea on who in reality controls the situation) they will try to act as intermediaries in an effort to make peace between the government and the opposition. The whole country was brought to the verge of civil war and dozens of people were sacrificed to serve the mercantile interests.
Why PACE has turned its gaze toward post-Soviet conflicts
30.05.2015 | 00:00 | Andrey ARESHEV
As has been reported, last April the Monitoring Committee met during the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. A special subcommittee was created at that meeting – the Ad hoc Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Member States of the Council of Europe. This new entity, which will be directly responsible for looking into so-called «frozen conflicts» in the former Soviet Union, should have official status and begin its work in June. It met for the first time in Paris on May 27…
USA vs. Turkey: «Energy Wars» Battlefront News (II)
29.05.2015 | 21:22 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
As «energy wars» are in full swing, the United States is pursuing its own goals. Exerting pressure on Turkey is part of this policy. Washington wants Ankara to abandon the cooperation with Russia and dance to the tune of Euro-Atlantic Alliance instead. The US-Turkey differences go far beyond the energy agenda. Actually, the United States and NATO put into doubt the right of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to define the national internal and external policies…
Civilized West and Libyan Nightmare
29.05.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
In 2011 the West intervened into Libya going beyond the resolution N1973 of the United Nations Security Council. A nightmare followed. Now it looks like Europe has decided to tackle the burning problem. On May 18, EU ministers agreed to launch a sea and air mission that could in its later phases destroy vessels used by human traffickers… The events unfolding inside Libya are dramatic enough. The country is partitioned into a few quasi-states…
US Cries FIFA Foul to Penalise Russia
28.05.2015 | 20:08 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
The saying goes: don’t mix politics and sport. That is exactly what the United States’ authorities seem to be doing over this week’s dramatic arrests of World Cup officials and allegations of rampant fraud amounting to $150 million. The ostensible American concern is to clean up the tarnished image of the “beautiful game” in a global sting operation, which saw the arrest of seven senior members belonging to FIFA – the international federation that organises the quadrennial soccer World Cup finals…
A meeting on the Elbe River, but without Russia: the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting
28.05.2015 | 19:42 | Valentin KATASONOV
The Group of Seven (G7) Finance Ministers’ meeting is to take place in Dresden (Saxony) in Germany on 27-29 May. It will be the Group of Seven’s last major event before the G7’s final full-scale summit at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps on 7-8 June 2015. The Group of Seven is made up of Germany, the US, Canada, Japan, France, Great Britain and Italy…
USA vs. Turkey: «Energy Wars» Battlefront News (I)
28.05.2015 | 15:10 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Global energy wars keep on raging on. Those in the West who wish Russia ill have suffered a major setback. Millions of barrels of untapped oil that U.S. shale drillers discovered during the boom years are about to disappear from their inventories as a result of falling oil prices caused, among other things, by the policy pursued by Saudi Arabia, the US main ally in the Middle East.
Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
28.05.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
Afghanistan comes to the fore of Central Asian agenda. The situation has greatly exacerbated in the northern Afghan provinces… Until recently it had been widely believed that the central authorities in Kabul were fighting the Taliban. Now a third belligerent emerged. Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, has said that the presence of Daesh, or the Islamic State, is growing. According to him, the group plans to seize control of Central Asia and then move to Russia. The efforts to fight the Islamic State in Afghanistan are not enough to counter the threat…
US Wages Drug War against Venezuela
27.05.2015 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
…This April Mexican La Jornada published an article called DEA Scandal: Drugs, Prostitutes and ‘Grotesque’ U.S. Double Standards. The article says, that U.S. government agencies like the ATF (The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Drug Enforcement Agency have shown no compunction about breaking national laws, smuggling weapons to criminal groups involved in the drugs trade, laundering their money and even participating in parties paid for by drug traffickers… More information on DEA activities becomes public domain. The up-to-date arms sales by US agencies to drug traffickers in Latin and Central America are a proven fact…
West Incites Tensions on Dniester Shores
27.05.2015 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH
Five Eyes and Color Revolutions
26.05.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
A recent release of Edward Snowden-provided classified PowerPoint presentation from the National Security Agency (NSA) provides a rather detailed description of how the FIVE EYES signals intelligence alliance of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand has conspired with the promoters of social media-based revolutions, such as the «Arab Spring», to bring about the collapse of democratically-elected or otherwise stable governments. However, the PowerPoint slides were partially redacted in key areas by the dubious censors of First Look Media, financed by e-Bay founder and multi-billionaire Pierre Omidyar…
Macedonia: European Powder Keg
26.05.2015 | 00:00 | Natalia MEDEN
The Balkans is a region known to be a European powder keg. The events in Macedonia prove that. One should see what is happening there through the prism of US Balkans policy. One of the goals is to prevent the construction of Turkish Stream… With the South Stream pipeline project cancelled and the Turkish Stream on the way Macedonia becomes a key country on the route. The current government headed by Nikola Gruevski welcomes the plans to build the pipeline. But Zoran Zaev, his opponent who organized the Macedonian Maidan, is certain to refuse the participation in Turkish Stream…
Washington Protects Its Lies with More Lies
25.05.2015 | 11:57 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
…Other than 9/11 itself, never has such a major event as bin Laden’s killing had such an enormous number of contradictory official and quasi-official explanations, unanswered questions and evasions. And the vast number of evasions and contradictions arouse no interest from the Western media or from the somnolent and insouciant American public…
Operation Unthinkable – Allies Were Bearing Secret Malice
25.05.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
…Not later than April 1945 Churchill instructed the British Armed Forces’ Joint Planning Staff to draw up Operation Unthinkable, a code name of two related plans of a conflict between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The generals were asked to devise means to “impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire”. The hypothetical date for the start of the Allied invasion of Soviet-held Europe was scheduled for 1 July 1945. In the final days of the war against the Hitler’s Germany London started preparations to strike the Soviet Union from behind…
The restoration of Ukraine. A clash of interpretations
24.05.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander DONETSKY
It has become customary for there to be a clash of interpretations when describing events in Eastern Ukraine. The ongoing conflict has been referred to as a civil war, a national liberation movement against the forced Ukrainization of language in the Russian region, and a display of separatism, since the DPR and LPR declared independence from Ukraine after holding referendums on the issue. There is also talk of an anti-terrorist operation… The view that what is going on is a national liberation movement also has the right to exist. Historically, the inhabitants of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, as well as a number of their Ukrainian neighbours, have nothing to do with Ukraine as they were originally populated by the descendants of Don Cossacks….
Ukrainian Nationalism Threatens Poland
24.05.2015 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH
Vasyl Pavlyuk, the Consulate General of Ukraine in Lublin, met the students of Maria Curie – Sklodowska Lublin University. Unexpectedly he was given a hard time. First, All-Polish Youth (Polish M?odzie? Wszechpolska), a nationalistic Polish Youth Organization, held a conference near the University building. They said that meeting with Vasyl Pavlyuk was the same thing as meeting the supporters of Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi criminals. Then the protesters moved inside the University to see the Ukrainian Consulate General and raise the posters «Murderers! Shame! No Glory!»…
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