8 August 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Nicaragua to Build Inter-Oceanic Waterway
08.08.2015 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
The Latin American presidents who dare to adopt policies independent from the United States have to be vigilant. Anything can happen; even an assassination is not excluded. Recently media outlets have been reporting more frequently about the empire taking revenge…
Obama is Setting his Sights on Armed Intervention in Syria
08.08.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
At a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Aug. 4, US President Barack Obama stated that Syria needs a «realistic political process» to settle its internal armed conflict, which would «lead to a stabilizing of the country and a transition to a government that is reflective of all the people of Syria». A few days earlier, the US president had authorized the use of US aircraft to defend the «moderate» Syrian opposition troops (trained by the Pentagon), in case they were attacked by the Syrian army. The Americans have already launched the first air strikes in support of the rebels…
U.S. is Destroying Europe
07.08.2015 | 08:00 | Eric ZUESSE
In Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries at the periphery or edges of Europe, U.S. President Barack Obama has been pursuing a policy of destabilization, and even of bombings and other military assistance, that drives millions of refugees out of those peripheral areas and into Europe, thereby adding fuel to the far-rightwing fires of anti-immigrant rejectionism, and of resultant political destabilization, throughout Europe, not only on its peripheries, but even as far away as in northern Europe…
Afghanistan on Brink of New Wave of Escalating Tension
07.08.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
Tajik President Emomalii Rahmon, during his Aug. 2 2015 visit to the town of Khorugh, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, claimed that «extremists may try to infiltrate Tajikistan» from neighboring Afghanistan. Dushanbe is taking steps to strengthen its national borders and to thoroughly train its military units and detachments, given the possible deterioration of the status quo in Afghanistan (IRA), where the confrontation between the Taliban and Kabul is being complicated by activity within the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) armed opposition group…
Donald Trump: Unexpected Impact on US Presidential Race
07.08.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
Everything had been easily predicted in the US presidential race till Donald Trump upset the applecart. At the start it was a Clinton-Bush contest with Jeb Bush trailing hopelessly behind. Now there is a breath of fresh air to invigorate the race making Democrats and Republicans face a new reality…
China’s Global Presence Is Alienating Bellicose Japan
06.08.2015 | 00:00 | Augusto SOTO
Recent Tokyo’s bellicose attitude pushes Japan into alienation and relative isolation vis-à-vis China’s growing global presence…
Russia: Coming Back to Middle East as Major Actor
06.08.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
The world attention has been focused on the Middle East recently. The ebb and flow of the war against the Islamic State, the stalemated Syrian civil war, the framework agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the situation in Iraq, the war in Yemen, the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia in open rift over Iran – all these events have been hitting the radar screen in recent months. Another aspect worth of mentioning is the emergence of Russia as a relevant player that could have a major impact on the situation in the volatile region. Moscow’s recent decision to deliver S300 air defense systems to Iran is just another example of its return…
Nuclear Tensions on Korean Peninsula and US Doublethink
05.08.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander VORONTSOV
In an exclusive interview with the Interfax news agency on July 29, the North Korean ambassador to Moscow, Kim Hyun Joon, stated that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was prepared to shore up its nuclear potential in response to US actions, the purpose of which, the ambassador emphasized, «is to overthrow the existing regime and bring about a change in the current leadership of the DPRK»…
Rationale Behind MH17 Tribunal
05.08.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
The United Nations Security Council voted on July 29 whether to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of bringing down Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine last year…
Sad Nuclear Anniversary
04.08.2015 | 00:00 | Brian CLOUGHLEY
On 1 September 1939 – the date of the beginning of the Second World War – the President of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote to «the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and His Britannic Majesty» saying that «The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centres of population during the course of the hostilities which have raged in various quarters of the earth during the past few years, which has resulted in the maiming and in the death of thousands of defenceless men, women, and children, has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman, and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity».
Misled by «America Above All» Concept
04.08.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV
The article Russia and America: Toward a New Détente was published on June 9 by The National Interest to hit the radar screen. It is still in the limelight. The piece is written by Leslie H. Gelb (born March 4, 1937), a former correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, a former senior Defense and State Department official who is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China
03.08.2015 | 08:00 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that «pro-democracy» and «human rights» organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized by Washington. The real purpose of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to advance Washington’s hegemony by destabilizing the two countries capable of resisting US hegemony…
U.S. Propaganda: It’s Not Just False but Absurd
03.08.2015 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE
It’s so ridiculous, no intelligent and informed person would give it any serious consideration whatsoever. It insults the public’s intelligence…
Bulgarian PM Borisov: Discipline Above All for EU and NATO Members
03.08.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV
On July 23, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov opened the Foreign Minister’s annual meeting with Bulgarian ambassadors abroad. The event made it appear that he was not a citizen of Bulgaria and had no interest in making the country prosperous. Looks like he has an implanted chip with a special program making him pursue foreign interests instead of serving his homeland…
Past or Future, US or Russia: Iran Faces Hard Choices
02.08.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
The confrontation between Washington and Tehran has lasted for 36 years since 1979. This is the first time the both parties have reached an agreement – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The United Nations Security Council has approved the Vienna accords on Iran’s nuclear program with seven previous resolutions on sanctions against Tehran terminated.
America’s Barbaric Logic of Hiroshima 70 Years On
02.08.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Even if we accept that there was a plausible military imperative to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – to bring about a swift defeat of Japan and thus an end to the Pacific War – the horror of civilian death toll from those two no-warning aerial attacks places a disturbing question over the supposed ends justifying the means…
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