Russia
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Olga CHETVERIKOVA: Secret Run-Up to World War II: the Responsibility of the West
Diverting intellectual energies to wasteful discussions in which Russians have to adopt a defensive stance and disprove groundless allegations is the technique traditionally employed by the West in its information war against Russia. The purpose of the resolution passed recently by the OCSE Parliamentary Assembly, which equated the roles of the Soviet Union and Nazi… Continue reading
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The End of Chimerica? By M K Bhadrakumar
It all began with United States Vice President Joseph Biden choosing a tour of Ukraine and Georgia on July 20-23 to rebuke the Kremlin publicly for its “19th-century notions of spheres of influence”. Clearly, Biden’s jaunt was choreographed as a forceful demonstration of the Barack Obama administration’s resolve to keep up the US’s strategic engagement… Continue reading
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Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order Global Power and Global Government: Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and sell kerosene from Indonesia,… Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Training Ground for War on Russia By Rick Rozoff
The world has become so inured to war around the world and seemingly without end that Swedish soldiers engaging in deadly combat as part of a belligerent force for the first time since the early 1800s – and that in another continent thousands of kilometers from their homeland – has passed virtually without notice. “[F]rom… Continue reading
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Future of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces In the Wake of Obama's Moscow Visit By General Leonid Ivashov
As the US Administration is fully aware of the state of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces and the outlook for them, its consent to the proposed parameters of the arms reduction was not hard to extract. Speaking precisely, Washington simply tailored the parameters of the proposed cuts to its own military programs whose underlying strategy is… Continue reading
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From WW II To WW III: Global NATO And Remilitarized Germany By Rick Rozoff Part 2
With military deployments and interventions in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from at least as early as 1995-2001 onward, the German Bundeswehr had crossed a barrier, violated a taboo and established a new precedent that paralleled the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the latter in flagrant contravention of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Continue reading
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US PLANS FOR MISSILE DEFENSE SABOTAGE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT TALKS WITH RUSSIA By Alice Slater
Had Obama been willing to forego the illusory US missile shield (which is incapable of offering any protection against incoming missiles, since those missiles could easily be accompanied by a barrage of indistinguishable decoys rendering the missile defenses useless) Russia might well have agreed to larger reductions in their mutual arsenals which together now total… Continue reading
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A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia has laid out its welcome carpet leading all the way from the rugged Caucasus, a theater of events that is interesting in the highest degree to US-Russia relations, to the Russian capital to receive Obama. It is a carpet of intriguing design, laden with compelling legends of the roots of conflict that acted as… Continue reading
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NATO's War Plans For The High North, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea By Rick Rozoff
The alarming and aggressive campaign is exemplified by the ongoing 10-day Loyal Arrow 2009 NATO military exercises being conducted in Sweden, described by a major American daily newspaper as “A NATO rapid-reaction force…on a war footing in Swedish Lapland” which consists of “Ten countries, 2,000 troops, a strike aircraft carrier, and 50 fighter jets - … Continue reading
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Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia By Rick Rozoff
The US plans to deploy ground-, sea-, air- and space-based anti-missile systems primarily around and against Russia (Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Britain, Japan and Alaska to date), the Pentagon will hold in reserve nuclear warheads for activation without a monitoring mechanism provided to Russian inspectors and arms reduction negotiators. Continue reading
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Video: NATO exercise provoke Russia By F. William Engdahl
Engdahl: NATO exercises in Georgia are a provocative move against Russia by the Pentagon Continue reading
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NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War by Rick Rozoff
That the last two series of planning exercises and war games have been scheduled in the South Caucasus, and the current one in a nation that not only borders Russia but fought a five-day war with it only nine months ago, and that the military bloc running the exercises and its main member, the US,… Continue reading
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The Prospects of a New Cold War? Towards the Consolidation of the Russian-led CSTO Military Alliance By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
In the post Soviet space the late 2000s’ geopolitical reality is different from that of the 90s because Russia is vigorously attempting to reassert its power and to reinforce its own national security. Moscow is strongly defending its interests in the so called Near Abroad, (i. e. the former Soviet Union, which is the core… Continue reading
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Video – Life between empires (Georgian trap Pt3)
Georgian newspaper publisher Malkhaz Gulashvili. As Georgia and the surrounding region undergo further militarization by the two superpowers, Gulashvili provides a radical proposal to help create a peaceful and independent Georgia. Continue reading
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Video: The Georgian trap Pt. 2
One outcome of the war was Russia’s recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, something Russia was previously unwilling to do. Gulashvili believes that this was an objective of the United States, as it will inspire existing independence movements in other Russian territories, leading to the inevitable disintegration of Southern Russia. Continue reading
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Riding a Revolution to Nowhere By Boris Kagarlitsky
The mobs of protesters in Chisinau and Tbilisi are not demanding any radical changes to policies or the system as a whole. They are simply expressing frustration with the condition of their lives and society in general. But by failing to demand concrete solutions to those problems, they tacitly agree to endure them further. Continue reading
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War, Oil and Gas Pipelines: Turkey is Washington's Geopolitical Pivot By F. William Engdahl
For Washington Turkey today has become a geopolitical “pivot state” which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines. Continue reading
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Video – The Georgian trap
Video: As thousands demand Saakashvili’s resignation, Paul Jay investigates roots of 2008 Russia-Georgia War Continue reading
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Lavrov says Georgia conflict proves dangers of NATO expansion
It is enough just to imagine what would have happened if Georgia had been a NATO member, as Russia would have still had no other option but to act as it did last August,’ Continue reading
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Gorbachev blasts NATO eastward expansion
Gorbachev said in an interview with Germany’s Bild newspaper published on Thursday that Western Germany, the United States and other powers had pledged after Germany’s reunification in 1990 that “NATO would not move a centimeter to the east.” Continue reading
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