12 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
What’s Next for Canada and Russia?
12.12.2015 | 00:00 | Michael Jabara CARLEY
For more than nine years, from 2006 to 2015, the Conservative Party held power in Canada under its leader Stephen Harper. For progressive Canadians, essentially the centre-left, who constitute more than 60% of the voting population, those nine years were a Dark Age. We watched the Canadian government cut back on social services through a policy of austerity ultimately intended to create a USA knockoff in Canada. The Harper government pursued a foreign policy based on unquestioning support of Apartheid Israel, unblinking compliance with US objectives abroad, enthusiastic backing of the fascist coup d’état in Kiev in 2014, and vengeful hostility toward the Russian Federation…
Nuclear Weapons Remain
12.12.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV
Two messages have popped up on the news feed, one right after the other: on Dec. 7 in Seoul at the Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for the destruction of all nuclear weapons in the world, while almost simultaneously, Poland’s deputy defense minister, Tomasz Szatkowski, announced that Warsaw is considering asking NATO to station American nuclear weapons on Polish soil…
Dollar and Yuan: Two Versions of China’s Monetary Policy
11.12.2015 | 08:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
There is much that is paradoxical and contradictory in the monetary policies of the world’s two biggest economies – the US and China. The US, for example, accuses China of devaluing the yuan and thereby artificially stimulating its exports. America is unhappy when Beijing plays at devaluing its currency, as well as when China props it up, or at least keeps it afloat.
Turkey, US Increase Involvement in Mid. East Wars: Dangers of Mission Creep
11.12.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
On Dec. 6, Turkey said it won’t send more troops to Iraq without the Baghdad’s approval after the Iraqi government said it may appeal to the United Nations to secure the withdrawal of Turkish soldiers deployed recently to the country. «Our Prime Minister has stressed in his letter that there will be no transfer of forces to Bashiqa until the sensitivities of the Iraqi government are addressed», the Ahmet Davutoglu’s office said in the statement…
CIA-Islamic Jihadist Alliance Against Russia is 63 Years’ Old
11.12.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
The dalliance of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency with Islamic jihadist forces is nothing new. Today, the CIA provides weapons, training, and other support to jihadist-aligned domestic Syrian and foreign mercenary forces attempting to overthrow the government of the secular Syrian president, Bashar al Assad…
Venezuelan Parliamentary Election: Chavism in Active Defense
10.12.2015 | 08:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Hundreds of reporters from all over the world covered the Venezuelan parliamentary election that took place on December 6. This was the 20th election in the past 17 years since the Bolivarian government came to power in 1999. All the previous ones had been won by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) led by late President Hugo Chavez and his successor, the current President Nicolas Maduro…
Le Pen’s National Front… It’s Not All Bad
10.12.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Don’t be mistaken, this is not an endorsement of Marine Le Pen and her nationalistic far-right party. But there is something positive about the upheaval in French politics indicated by the electoral breakthrough of the National Front. For it heralds a long-overdue collapse in the old discredited establishment. From that collapse a real democratic alternative beckons…
How the Public Get Suckered
10.12.2015 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE
The US aristocracy’s control over all the mainstream ‘news’ is ironclad – and this includes the political magazines, such as National Review, and The Nation; as well as ‘intellectual’ magazines, such as Harpers and The Atlantic. American ‘news’ media stifle democracy in America; they’re not part of democracy, in America. They’re like poison that’s presented as being ‘medicine’ instead. Suckers don’t just swallow it; they come back for more…
Soros and His CIA Friends Targeted USSR/Russia in 1987
09.12.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
Declassified Central Intelligence Agency documents clearly describe how international hedge fund mogul George Soros targeted the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev as early as 1987. Soros, who was already quite wealthy, worked closely with a CIA-linked non-governmental organization (NGO), the Institute for East-West Security Studies (IEWSS), to take advantage of Gorbachev’s policies of «perestroika» and «glasnost» to infiltrate the Soviet economic and political systems to hasten their demise…
Montenegro Invited to Join NATO: Dubious Payoff
09.12.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
On December 2, NATO invited Montenegro to become the 29th member of the US-led military alliance. The Montenegro’s parliament in September passed a resolution by 50 votes out of 79 to support the country’s NATO membership. «Montenegro’s accession to NATO will be another important step in the Euro-Atlantic integration of the entire Western Balkans region», NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on the occasion. «And it makes clear that NATO keeps its doors open, to complete our vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace», he added.
Washington Has Scheduled IMF’s Suicide for Dec. 8
08.12.2015 | 13:20 | Valentin KATASONOV
A new entry has appeared on the Executive Board Calendar on the IMF’s official website: Reforming the Fund’s Policy on Non-Toleration of Arrears to Official Creditors. Discussion of that topic is planned for Dec. 8, 2015. There’s a tricky question hiding behind this esoteric wording: will the International Monetary Fund continue to loan money to Ukraine, if that country does not repay its $3 billion debt to Russia by Dec. 20 and goes into full-fledged default?..
Washington: Time to Make Choice
08.12.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
The United States holds the United Nations Security Council presidency in December. Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, expressed hope that the Vienna talks on Syria’s crisis management will continue. On Tuesday, December 1, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that the United States was deploying a new force of special operations troops to Iraq to conduct raids against Islamic State there and in neighboring Syria, ratcheting up Washington’s campaign against the terrorist group. President Obama also expressed his intent to deploy fighter aircraft along the Turkey-Syria border…
Ankara vs. Russia: Caucasus Turns into New Battlefront
08.12.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
The NATO allies have flatly refused to side with Turkey in its conflict with Russia. Now Ankara is urgently looking for new opportunities to boost its influence in the region and divert the Russia’s attention making it face other «fronts». Turkey has no time to lose as the relations with Moscow may deteriorate further. It makes Ankara hastily take steps to enhance its energy security, establish a coalition of Turkic states it has been fostering for a long time and complicate the situation in the Caucasus to make Moscow face more problems there…
Turkey’s EU Membership Bid: Factors to Reckon With
07.12.2015 | 08:00 | Andrei AKULOV
The accession talks between the EU and Turkey have stalled for more than a decade after beginning in October 2005. Back then, the Turkey’s conflict with Cyprus proved to be a major stumbling block. Today Turkey moved a step closer in its bid to join the European Union after the November 29, 2015, EU-Turkey summit. It was agreed to re-energize the Turkey’s accession talks…
Europe at Crossroads
07.12.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
The forthcoming general elections set to take place in Spain on 20 December will not only sum up the political outcome of 2015 in the country, but will also possibly set the direction for Europe’s development in 2016. And it is already clear that one of these directions is the spread of separatist sentiment in the Old World…
Syria: Ultimate Pipelineistan War
07.12.2015 | 00:00 | Pepe ESCOBAR
Syria is an energy war. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate Pipelinestan war, the term I coined long ago for the 21st century imperial energy battlefields…
Equality in America, Fish that Rots from Head
06.12.2015 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE
Inequality of wealth is inequality of power. A study just released finds that «America’s 20 wealthiest people – a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet – now own more wealth than the bottom half of the American population combined, a total of 152 million people in 57 million households». How much political power do the people who would be inside that jet – and their friends – actually have?..
What is Behind IMF’s Decision on Yuan?
06.12.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
In recent years, China’s legal tender, known as the yuan, has begun to compete on the global stage with the leading reserve currencies…
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