3 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
American Revolution: Top-Down Rebellion Against System
03.10.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
It might seem unlikely to some, but a real political revolution is underway in the US right under our noses. The deeply underwhelming start to the American presidential campaign has unexpectedly evolved into a significant social phenomenon that could well have far-reaching consequences…
Syria: Vladimir Putin Dots All I’s
03.10.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the 70th UN General Assembly session to set the tone for a broad international discussions. All international issues are closely intertwined. One mistake leads to another. That’s the essence of Russian approach. The situation in the world, including Europe, is intolerable. It’s impossible to challenge this statement made by Russian President in his UN speech…
Putin Calls Out Washington
02.10.2015 | 11:49 | Paul Craig ROBERTS
Last Monday (28 September 2015) the world saw the difference between Russia and Washington. Putin’s approach is truth-based; Obama’s is vain boasts and lies, and Obama is running out of lies…
Obama v. Putin: Their Debate on Crimea (II)
02.10.2015 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE
Whereas Obama’s case (though it’s unstated, only implicit) presumes that this is essentally a dispute about property, and enforcing property-rights, Putin’s case presumes the exact contrary: that this is fundamentally a dispute about people, and human rights (versus property, and property-rights). Putin is saying simply that the people who reside in Crimea should determine the government in Crimea, and that owners of the land there (whatever and whomever those owners might happen to be) should not…
No Doubts: Poland Responsible for Beginning WWII
02.10.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
On Monday 28 September, Russian ambassador Sergei Andreev was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grzegorz Schetyna, stated that it was because of an interview Andreev had given the day before to the TVN 24 television channel, in which he declared that Poland “is partially responsible” for the disaster of the Second World War…
Obama v. Putin: Their Debate on Crimea (I)
01.10.2015 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE
The basic disagreement between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the source of the economic sanctions against Russia, and ’the new cold war,’ concerns the question of whether the process by which Crimea separated from Ukraine and joined Russia was, as Obama says, «aggression» by Russia, an illegal «seizure» of Crimea by Russia; or, on the other hand, as Putin says, a thoroughly legal and democratic act by the people of Crimea, to exercise their right of self-determination, via a referendum…
Russia’s Offer of Anti-ISIL Alliance Met with Obama Bluster
01.10.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a proposal to create a coalition of nations to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Putin’s coalition would be modeled after the anti-Hitler coalition created by the Allies during World War II. But rather than magnanimously accept Russia’s offer as did President Franklin Roosevelt in accepting Moscow’s offer of an alliance against Nazi Germany in World War II, President Barack Obama resorted to his familiar grandstanding and bluster before the cameras and the assembled delegates in the General Assembly hall…
Will US Join Russia in Effort to Untie Syrian Knot?
30.09.2015 | 14:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
On Monday this week, the attention of politicians and world media was riveted on the events in New York, where Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the United Nations General Assembly. No policy statements were expected this time. Two weeks before the event it had been known he would focus on the situation in Syria. Ahead of his UN speech the President revealed topics he would touch upon in an interview with CBS News. The world waited for Russia’s new initiatives. According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Syria spins out of control and five countries »hold the key» to a political solution to Syria, including Russia…
Time to Abolish their Lordships
30.09.2015 | 08:00 | Matthew JAMISON
Recently I wrote about the appalling corruption in the British House of Commons with Members of Parliament (MPs) running their offices in total disregard to the employment, health & safety and equalities laws they have voted on to the statuette book for the rest of the country to abide. Sadly, the situation in the upper chamber of the British Parliament, the grand and imperious sounding House of Lords, is no better. Despite Westminster’s claim to be home to the «Mother of all Parliaments», the House of Lords stands at best as an undemocratic eye sore, at worst, an abortion of a legislature…
US-NATO Military Alliance Destroyed Libya. Where Next?
30.09.2015 | 00:00 | Brian CLOUGHLEY
Stratfor is a rightist Washington think tank, which is reported as having «high level sources within the United States and other governments». On 19 September its analysis titled «Libya’s Instability Threatens Regional Borderlands» concluded that there is «no quick or easy solution to managing the Libyan threats to regional security…» and that «containing Libyan instability will remain unlikely for the foreseeable future»…
A masterful Move as Moscow Hosts Conference in Self-Determination
30.09.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and its «non-governmental organization» carve outs and pass-through operations, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED), are fond of interfering in Russian internal affairs by championing the secession of autonomous republics from Chechnya and Cherkessia to Karelia and Kaliningrad…
Reassessing the Russian-Ukrainian Past, Present and Future
29.09.2015 | 19:12 | Michael AVERKO
When discussing what shapes Russian public opinion, a common theme in US mass media dwells on how the news is covered on the three main Russian national TV channels. The US mass media proponents of this mindset would benefit from taking a more critical look at themselves. As one example, with many to choose from, the September 23, 2015 PBS NewsHour segment with host Margaret Warner and Marvin Kalb, qualifies as propaganda, benefitting a neocon to neolib leaning realist rationale, for not going too all out in confronting Russia over Ukraine…
Russia and China Should Reinforce Joint Media Efforts
29.09.2015 | 08:08 | Augusto SOTO
The old saying stating that each new generation had to learn history in order not to commit the same mistakes has become quite topical. Current events are broadcasted to people who read fewer books than ever and increasingly rely on fast-changing virtual content containing unconcealed US propaganda…
US, EU: Lost in Wishful Thinking
29.09.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Refugees and migrants flows plunge Europe into the quagmire of crisis. As the situation gets worse, the inability of the European Union and its institutions to effectively tackle all-European problems becomes evident…
Obama Handshakes China’s Xi, while Holding Cybercrime Stick in Other
29.09.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
While there were several points of apparent accord reached between the US and China during President Xi Jinping’s state visit, the issue of cybercrime will continue to be a source of tension going forward. Tension that will be unilaterally and cynically exploited by Washington for its ulterior geopolitical aim of demonising and browbeating China…
Bolivia: DEA’s Operation Naked King
28.09.2015 | 08:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
The United States has not had an ambassador in Bolivia since 2008, when Philip Goldberg was declared persona non grata for subversive activities intended to overthrow the government of Evo Morales. Morales still indignantly recalls how after presenting his credentials, Goldberg peremptorily informed him that Bolivia should cut off all ties with Cuba and Iran if she wanted to improve relations with Washington…
US A-10 «Warhogs» Deployed Near Russian Border
28.09.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
At least 12 US A-10 attack planes landed in the Estonian Ämari Air Base on September 21-22 to participate in the joint exercises of Estonian and U.S. air forces to be held till November 13 in the Estonian airspace. The event takes place in the framework of a wide program known under the name Atlantic Resolve. The training event increases the military presence in all NATO’s eastern member states. This is already the third joint exercise of Estonia and US this year…
Russia and Iran are Coordinating in Syria to Preserve Regional Stability
28.09.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
A lot of negative words have been said about Moscow’s role in the ongoing Syrian crisis by the US and its allies. Starting from August 2015 these claims took a new turn. Reports about Russian military buildup in Syria began. Unsupported by evidence, these reports continued throughout August and September…
Papal Blessing for Washington’s Global Terrorism
27.09.2015 | 11:04 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Roman Catholic Pope Francis was hailed for his courage in challenging the United States Congress on a range of «leftwing» issues. The pontiff can take some credit for raising issues of social justice, reducing poverty and homelessness, averting deleterious environmental impacts, and calling for more humane immigration policies. But there was a flagrant omission in his address to the American lawmakers, as there was in his earlier audience with President Barack Obama. Where was his forthright condemnation of Washington’s rampant war-making and sponsorship of global terrorism?..
Captain Tsipras ?n Stormy European Sea
27.09.2015 | 08:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
In many ways, Alexis Tsipras’ victory in the recent early parliamentary elections is even more significant than the Syriza coalition’s success in January or even the results of the July referendum on Greece’s relationship with its creditors. The radical left party’s first rise to power was ‘by contradiction’ – a response to the majority of voters’ disillusionment in the demagogy and impotence of the former ‘pillars’ of the Greek political stage represented by the New Democracy politicians and PASOK. Now it seemed that this factor would work against Tsipras, but it didn’t…
New Horizons for UN Peacekeeping
27.09.2015 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV
Prior to the recently opened 70th session of the UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented his report on UN peacekeeping operations. Problems of peacekeeping have recently become the subject of active discussions at a variety of levels, including the UN Security Council…
Syria and Afghanistan: US Uses One Pattern for Both
27.09.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
The 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly was convened on September 15 in New York. It is expected to have one of the richest agend as in the history of the UN…
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