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May Reflections: Multipolarity is the hope of workers around the world
May is one of the most important months of the year. This month several relevant dates are celebrated, starting with Labor Day. May 1st is celebrated all over the world. Among Western nations, this is a time to celebrate the important achievements of workers, such as their labor rights, while in the former socialist bloc the date… Continue reading
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Russia and China Haven’t Even Started to Ratchet Up the Pain Dial
The Suicide Spectacular Summer Show, currently on screen across Europe, proceeds in full regalia, much to the astonishment of virtually the whole Global South: a trashy, woke Gotterdammerung remake, with Wagnerian grandeur replaced by twerking. Continue reading
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Western Zero-Sum Geopolitics is a Dead-End
The US and its Western allies are creating more international tensions and instability in a futile bid to carve the globe into “spheres of interest” and “exclusivity”. That’s the way Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov views it, and few objective observers of international relations could disagree with his admonishment. Continue reading
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The US Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case By Eric Zuesse
It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet. (El Salvador — the land that was largely made what it today is, by its US trained-and-equipped death squads — is now number 2 on that measure. In another country the… Continue reading
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The International Rogue Nation: America By Eric ZUESSE
In 2003, America (and its lap-dog UK) invaded and destroyed Iraq on the basis of lies to the effect that the U.S. (and UK) regime were certain that Saddam Hussein had and was developing weapons of mass destruction. These U.S. allegations were based on provable falsehoods when they were stated and published, but the regime’s ‘news’-media refused to publish… Continue reading
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How America’s Dictatorship Works By Eric Zuesse
Trump could not have become America’s President if he had not won the “vote” of his nation’s second-largest political donor in 2016, casinos-owner Sheldon Adelson. Continue reading
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Is Trump Starting His Own War, Finally? By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The NMI Commander, Canadian Army Major General Dany Fortin, introduced the mission’s mandate, vision and aim as a “new iteration of a long-standing relationship” between NATO and Iraq, one that will bring together “expertise and best practice in security/defence sector reform, institution building and training and education from the entire Alliance and its partners.” Continue reading
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Kiev’s Kerch Strait Gambit Shows Telltale Signs of Western-Backed Provocation to Force Russia’s Hand By Robert Bridge
Ever since Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan revolution, which resulted in a usurpation of power micromanaged directly from Washington, nothing happens in Kiev without the Western powers knowing about it. And that would certainly include playing a reckless game of chicken with Moscow. Continue reading
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All Sanctions Against Russia Are Based on Lies By Eric Zuesse
All of the sanctions (economic, diplomatic, and otherwise) against Russia are based on clearly demonstrable intentional falsehoods; and the sanctions which were announced on August 8th are just the latest example of this consistent tragic fact — a fact which will be proven here, with links to the evidence, so that anyone who reads here… Continue reading
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Syria’s Civil War Is Almost Over… And Assad Has Won By Patrick Cockburn
Isis is confronting an array of enemies approaching Raqqa, but these are divided, with competing agendas and ambitions. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whose main fighting force is the Syrian Kurdish Popular Mobilisation Units (YPG), backed by the devastating firepower of the US-led air coalition, are now getting close to Raqqa and are likely to… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 10-16 January 2016
16 January 2016 — Strategic Culture Foundation Storm Warning for Merkel 16.01.2016 | 08:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV It is difficult to avoid the impression that the «sexual terror» that took place on New Year in Cologne and a number of other German cities was organised by somebody very clever. Regardless of how much the «terror» was Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 January 2015
9 January 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation America’s Subservience to Saud Family 09.01.2016 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE The Saud royal family are by far the world’s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world’s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 December 2015 – 2 January 2016
2 January 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Democracy or Entertainment for the Masses? 02.01.2016 | 00:00 | Matthew JAMISON I have always found American politics far more exciting, consequential and charismatic than British politics. This is in part due to the status of the United States among the democracies of the world as the leading Superpower. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 December 2015
26 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syria: Has Anyone Stepped Back from the Brink? 26.12.2015 | 00:00 | Michael Jabara CARLEY John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, recently visited Moscow to discuss the Syrian crisis with his colleague Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. Journalists observed handshakes, smiles, even hearty laughter, between Kerry and Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 December 2015
19 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: The Roles of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Britain, and Israel (III) 19.12.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA Turkish officials were involved in illegal transport of oil from Iraq long before the emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH). Their illegal trade expanded to the Syrian Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 December 2015
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, Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 29 November – 5 December 2015
5 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Does Turkey Really Belong to NATO? 05.12.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The tensions between Moscow and Ankara are on the rise as a result of downing the Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish F-16 fighter – an outright provocation pursuing Turkey’s long-term foreign policy goals. So far, Russia Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 22-28 November 2015
28 November 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Candidates for US Presidency and Their Threats to Russia 28.11.2015 | 00:00 | Brian CLOUGHLEY The United States chortled with glee about Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian Su-24 on November 24 and the Pentagon called it «a sovereign act of self-defence». It wilfully ignored the fact that even Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 14-21 November 2015
21 November 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Paris Attacks are Game Changer: First Look at Possible Ramifications (I) 21.11.2015 | 08:00 | Andrei AKULOV With the November 13-14 Paris attacks, the world has passed a tipping point in what is sure to be a decades-long battle against Islamist terrorism. It is already abundantly clear that the Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 8-14 November 2015
14 November 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation G20 Puts on Global Security Uniform 14.11.2015 | 08:00 | Andrey FEDYASHIN The G20 summit will take place on November 15-16, 2015 in Belek, a spa town located 15 km from Antalya, the Turkey’s resorts heaven. 30 out of 45 most luxurious hotels of Turkish Mediterranean seashore have already Continue reading
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