11 July 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
US Fears Euro Crisis Unravelling Anti-Russia Project
11.07.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
As leaders of the European Union meet this weekend to decide on whether Greece is to be ejected from the eurozone, Washington is pulling out the stops to prevent such an outcome…
Emergence of Great Eurasia Looming Against the Background of Declining West
11.07.2015 | 00:00 | Vladimir NESTEROV
The one superpower dominated world is becoming a thing of the past right in front of our eyes. Old international institutions are in decline, take the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Union (EU) mired in crisis, or the degrading Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). So far, intense discussions of United Nations Organization reform have been nothing but shooting the breeze…
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
10.07.2015 | 13:00 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
The Pentagon has released its «National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015». The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to «state actors» that «are challenging international norms». It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These «revisionist states» are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent. In other words, the norm is dependence on Washington…
Islamic State Coming to Balkans (II) (Not All Immigrants are Asylum Seekers)
10.07.2015 | 00:00 | Elena GUS’KOVA
Nowadays one can meet young people on the streets of Serbian cities who don’t speak the language and don’t look like refugees. Physically fit, respectful and polite, they normally walk in groups of three trying not to attract attention. According to local media, the majority of immigrants settling down in Serbia are men younger than 27. Muslims account for 94% of the immigrants. 56% of refugees remaining in Serbia are single. They don’t like being photographed. Many of them are men of means, in some cases the money is sent by relatives…
The BRICS/SCO Summit(s) in Ufa Marks the Start of a Silk World Order
10.07.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
Get ready for ground shattering geopolitical changes. At the crossroads of Asia and Europe, it has been decided that the Russian city of Ufa will be the point of convergence for all the initiatives and projects of the Silk World Order of trade and integration that China and Russia are spearheading. Ufa, which is the capital of Russia’s Bashkortostan, is being used to simultaneously host an extraordinary summit for both the BRICS—which has increasing become an alternative forum to that of the G7—and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) respectively from July 8 to 9 and from July 9 to 10, 2015…
Another Attempt to Organize «Orange Revolution» in Ecuador
09.07.2015 | 08:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is blowing the whistle. The country may face another coup attempt. There is solid ground to support this allegation. In his March weekly address to the people the President said the protests in Ecuador were staged by enemies of «citizens’ revolution»as the opposition was implementing the strategy of attrition…
Islamic State Coming to Balkans (I)
09.07.2015 | 00:00 | Elena GUS’KOVA
The waves of refugees from the Middle East hit Europe. It’s not something new for the continent and the Balkans. In the recent 25 years migration, including people evicted from homes and war refugees, has become routine. Serbs left Croatia, Kosovo, the Muslim part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats left Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jews left Croatia and Bosnia. Last year Albanians unexpectedly went away from Kosovo. According to some reports 100 thousand of them crossed the Serbian border going to Hungary and other European countries…
German ‘Efficiency’ Is Killing Europe
09.07.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Renowned German «efficiency» is opening up a grievous rift within the European Union in the wake of the Greek No vote to EU-imposed bailout austerity. Not only that. The famed Germanic mechanical methodology is threatening to tear Europe asunder from runaway financial debts – the very Europe that Berlin claims to be upholding…
Can North Korea’s Nuclear Problem Be Solved?
08.07.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander VORONTSOV
Is there a hope for restarting the stalled six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program? This question is more frequently asked by experts at international conferences, including the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism event held this May in northwestern city of Yanji, the seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin province, People’s Republic of China…
Intermarium and Poland’s Cherished Dreams
08.07.2015 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH
Poland’s opposition Law & Justice Party (LJP) held its congress in Katowice on July 3-6, 2015. Micha? Dworczyk, the head of Freedom and Democracy Foundation established to support Poles in former USSR, and former adviser to late President Lech Kaczy?ski, outlined the guidelines of Poland’s eastern policy. He emphasized the need to reject the policy of “historical amnesia” when Poland turns a blind eye on the Kiev’s heroization of Nazi OUN-UPA (the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists- Ukrainian Insurgent Army) criminals. He also stressed the need to strengthen ties with the countries of so-called Intermarium. The plight of Poles in Lithuania and Belarus will be in focus of the foreign policy efforts under the President-elect Andrzej Duda who won the presidential election as the LJP candidate (he was present at the congress)…
Korean Peninsula: Choice between Peace and Escalation
07.07.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander VORONTSOV
Normally tensions run high in the Korean Peninsula when US starts annual joint military exercises with South Korea. Then the time comes for attempts to find diplomatic solutions. This is the usual pattern. It was different this year…
BOKO HARAM: its transformation into a transnational terrorist corporation
07.07.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
In recent years we have seen many radical organizations become internationalized – factions that once confined their operations to within defined state boundaries have been converted into transnational terrorist corporations. Of course, certainly not all radical organizations make this transition. Some, such as the Taliban, remain «domestic» entities. However, many are «suddenly» able to easily transcend the national boundaries of not only neighboring countries, but whole regions that they are able to overtake. This was the sort of transformation made by al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. We are now watching Boko Haram (BH) undergo a similar metamorphosis into a transnational «terrorist corporation»…
Punishment Of Innocents by Sanctions
06.07.2015 | 08:00 | Brian CLOUGHLEY
In June 2015 some 1,200 people died from the effects of an extreme heatwave in Pakistan. Temperatures reached 44 degrees Centigrade (111o Fahrenheit) and the scenes of suffering were heart-rending. As CNN reported : «At the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre in Sindh’s capital, Karachi, heat stroke victims are wheeled in daily, swelling the numbers well beyond capacity. The overwhelmed doctors and nurses do what they can… Family members tend to many of the patients, wiping their brows with sponges and keeping them cool with wet, grimy towels… At the Edhi morgue, the largest still operating in Karachi, the picture is even more dismal… Daily power outages mean the cold storage unit that houses bodies is hot and sticky. The dead, it seems, are denied the dignity they deserve»…
Hillary Clinton Calls for Constant Engagement with Russia
06.07.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
Speaking at a campaign event in Glen, New Hampshire on July 4, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the United States has to be «much smarter» about how it deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin. «That’s why we have to be much smarter in how we deal with Putin and how we deal with his ambitions», Clinton said at a campaign event. «He’s not an easy man … But I don’t think there is any substitute other than constant engagement»…
NSA has become a rogue elephant
06.07.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
The National Security Agency, which has billed itself as merely an agency that collects and analyzes foreign signals intelligence and seeks to protect U.S. communications and computer networks from surveillance, has embarked on missions that take it into the territory of lawlessness and rogue operations.
EU Ready for Well-Planned Disinformation Campaign against Russia and Other States
05.07.2015 | 12:00 | Dmitry BABICH
The EU «strategic communication plan» to counter «Russian propaganda» in Europe has not been published yet, but the very fact of its existence hits the radar screen. Originally, the nine-page plan (already seen by many reporters) was to be made public at the June 25-26 session of the European Council…
Bloodshed Rampant in Mexico as Washington Wages its Secret War
05.07.2015 | 08:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
In mid-June property billionaire Donald Trump announced he will run for the White House in the 2016 election. It is widely believed that he has no chance. Mr. Trump just wants to be in the spotlight. He has already made some provocative statements attacking the Mexican community…
US Preparing for Never Ending War
05.07.2015 | 00:00 | Leonid SAVIN
The new military strategy is a fundamental document of global nature along with the National Security Strategy and Cyber Security Strategy. The US believes that the preservation of economic status-quo in the world and dissemination of so called «universal values» meet the national security interests. «Since the last National Military Strategy was published in 2011, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode», Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey wrote in his introduction to the strategy document. That’s why the need for a new document came to the fore. The strategy reads that «today, the probability of U.S. involvement in interstate war with a major power is assessed to be low but growing»…
India’s passage through Central Asian steppes needs rethink
04.07.2015 | 18:23 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The steppes of Central Asia give away their secrets only grudgingly. The deserving ones have to convincingly show their capacity for persistence and tenacity – and, of course, sheer audacity. That was how Genghis Khan succeeded in conquering Bukhara…
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