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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 16-22 October, 2010
22 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Budget Austerity in the West: New Food for the Privatization Parasite? 22.10.2010 | 10:04 | KERANS David (USA) To borrow a formulation from Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the world: the specter of the privatization of public assets. At an accelerating rate, the infrastructure that makes civilization… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 October, 2010: Kyrgyzstan / Taliban / Kosovo / Pakistan / Russia-China / North Korea
16 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev 15.10.2010 | 10:34 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr Perhaps the most striking feature of the recent campaign in Kyrgyzstan was the unprecedented number of parties in the race – a total of 29 of them competed over the parliament’s 129 seats. The proliferation… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 October, 2010: US Dollar vs. Yuan / Elections in Brazil / Kashmir as a Great Game Pawn? / Europe / Ecuador / US Right
8 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict 08.10.2010 | 17:42 | SALITZKI Alexander Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 29 August – 4 September, 2010
4 September, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-31 Aleksandr SHUSTOV Islamization of Tajikistan “In recent years Tajikistan has been involved in the process of active Islamization. Being one of the poorest countries in the region, and still healing wounds of a bloody civil war of 1992-1997, Tajikistan turned out to be receptive to Islam. The… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 22-28 August, 2010
28 August, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-22 Elena PUSTOVOITOVA The Rising Star of Gen. Hamid Gul “The former General holds that the longer the US forces stay in the region – in Iraq and Afghanistan (or in Pakistan, if they choose to move into the country) – the more they will antagonize the respective… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 15-21 August, 2010
21 August, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-08-15 Pyotr ISKENDEROV Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In “United Europe” “New serious inter-ethnic conflicts are brewing in Europe as it battles the global economic crisis. Typically they are deeply rooted in history, but the very fact that the renaissance of ethnic separatism in Europe is taking place in… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 1-8 August, 2010
6 August, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-08-03 Pyotr ISKENDEROV Tensions over the European External Action Service “The situation is unfolding on the UN highest court’s verdict on Kosovo’s independence. Now that the legality of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia has been recognized, the West seems to be pushing forward its ‘offensive’ on… Continue reading
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The US is Synchronously Preparing to Launch Aggressions Against Iran and Venezuela
The Columbian government voiced a new round of allegations that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is secretly supporting the FARC and ELN guerrilla movements in Columbia and giving shelter to their leaders. Venezuela reacted harshly – Chavez severed the diplomatic ties with Columbia, and the Organization of American States had to hold an urgent meeting on… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 25-31 July, 2010
31 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-07-26 Alexander MEZYAEV UN Court and Kosovo: International Law Amputated “On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence by «the Kosovo administration»… The amputation which the ICJ has performed on international law will generate… Continue reading
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV: Kosovo Case in the International Court of Justice: Time to Shed Illusions
The International Court of Justice was supposed to unveil its ruling in April, 2010 but, as the media found out, serious disagreements surfaced among the Court judges and the process took longer than initially expected. Moreover, there were indications that the West deliberately postponed the ruling to exert additional pressure on Belgrade over the extradition… Continue reading
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Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India): Talibjan Vs Taliban
A new terminology has been recently added to conflict and peace discourse in trouble torn Afghanistan. The term Talibjan (a combination of Talib and Jan) is coined to impart a new meaning to the Taliban in Afghanistan to bring them to the orbit of the «reintegration» process. Taliban (the singular is Talib, which literally means… Continue reading
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Alexander MEZYAEV: Aggression in the Light of International Law: Huge Problems and Minor Progress
The international law in its present form abounds with paradoxes. For example, it explicitly disallows the use of incendiary bullets, but contains no ban on the use of nuclear weapons. The present-day criminal law is in many parts just as incoherent: degrading treatment of captured occupants who brought death to the country they invaded is… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 11-17 July, 2010
17 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-07-15 Eugene IVANOV (USA) The Clinton-Gates tandem and U.S. foreign policy “Rumors spread over Washington, DC some time ago that Hillary Clinton may leave her job as Secretary of State. And although a White House spokesman promptly jumped in to claim that the president was very happy with… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 26 June – 3 July, 2010
3 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-06-28 Atai MOLDOBAEV (Kyrgyzstan) Origin of Kyrgyz Divide Between North and South “Relations between the northern and the southern parts of Kyrgyzstan had always attracted much attention from the Soviet power elite and remain a primary concern in today’s Kyrgyz Republic. Regional authorities in the north and in… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 20-26 June, 2010
Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 20-26 June, 2010 2010-06-20 Alexander LEVCHENKO Poland Conditioned to Counter Germany and Russia “Europe is increasingly reluctant to pay with the lives of its people for the oil the US plans to extract from Iraq or for the hunt for the US-invented Al Qaeda. Having been instrumental… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from13-16 June, 2010
2010-06-14 Natalia MEDEN The Specter of German Revanchism “Czech president Václav Klaus must be credited with far-sightedness – employing the tactic of delaying the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, he forced Brussels to limit the scope of the Charter of Fundamental Rights so as to shield his country from property claims filed by the Germans… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 6-12 June, 2010
2010-06-11 Pyotr ISKENDEROV Iran and the Balkans: Russia Risks Making the Same Mistakes “The recent UN Security Council resolution slapping new sanctions on Iran is likely to become the worst defeat suffered by the Russian diplomacy over the past years. Its negative impact may be persistent and more serious than that of the proclamation of… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 23-29 May, 2010
2010-05-24 Alexander BARENTSEV Afghan Heroin Flow Channeled to Russia “The production of narcotics in Afghanistan has gone up 40-fold since the country’s occupation by the NATO forces.Afghanistan hosts the full cycle of illicit drug production comprising opium poppy cultivation, conversion into heroin and opium at some 400 drug facilities, stockpiling, and wholesale supply to the… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 16-22 May, 2010
2010-05-18 Alexander VORONTSOV Oleg REVENKO Kim Jong-il In China (I) “Kim Jong-il’s “unofficial” tour across China’s northern provinces early this May was loaded with symbolism. It was his fifth visit to the country which in fact acts as the DPRK’s only remaining partner in international politics… Western watchers are convinced that Kim Jong-il’s younger son… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 9-15 May, 2010
2010-05-10 Nil NIKANDROV The Mossad in South America “…The Mossad’s number one adversary and target in Latin America is Hugo Chavez, the political leader condemning Israel’s attempts to resolve conflicts in the Middle East by force… Shimon Peres addressed a thinly veiled threat to Chavez by saying that “Chavez will soon disappear”… TV commentator and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 