5 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation

The echo of the past war

05.11.2010 | 21:27 | MEDEN Natalia
In Germany the reaction on the plan of David Cameron’s Cabinet to withdraw the British troops from Germany by 2020 (not by 2035) in order to save money for the state budget was quite controversial… Here are some of the comments from readers on the web site of Neue Westfälische Zeitung newspaper: ”Finally the occupants get out from here”. “Super! Good news! Finally the occupants are going home. We had enough. The empty houses and barracks can be successfully used for other purposes”… A. Merkel is confident that at the Lisbon summit “a very good document heading to the future” will be signed, and Spiegel has already announced that NATO’s new concept does not envisage the removal of the US nuclear troops from Germany (not a single word was said about the removal of military bases).… When the Russian troops left Germany the soldiers sang a song with the words “Good bye, Germany, our native country waits for us”. As for the British soldiers who are to leave Germany in 10 years it is not their home country but a distant land which is waiting for then – Afghanistan…

1789 for US Establishment Liberals?

04.11.2010 | 17:21 | KERANS David (USA)
The Republican Party’s recapture of control of the House of Representatives and recovery of several seats in the Senate in the midterm elections of 2010 will certainly affect the tenor of US government over the next two years. The Republicans will assume leadership of House Committees, and distort policy even further towards corporate special interests, including the defense sector, with its lust for foreign conflicts and the large government contracts attending them…

Acquired Amnesia Syndrome. On US Medical Experiments in Guatemala

03.11.2010 | 11:50 | LEBEDEVA Irina (US)
Last October, headlines in US media were grabbed by reports showing that some six decades ago US “researchers” deliberately exposed Guatemalans to syphilis and gonorrhea. The revelations forced the US to apologize… What seems strange about the whole story is that the US did make an apology for what was done ages ago. US history abounds with cases where one or another American Doctor Mengele subjected humans to experiments with a panacea against some XX or XXI century plague…

The WikiLeaks Enigma

02.11.2010 | 21:16 | PUSTOVOITOVA Elena
You will not learn from WikiLeaks how for years the Iraqi oil used to be stolen and delivered to the US via Turkey’s seaport of Ceyhan to be sold below cost. Nor does WikiLeaks mention the fact that mutant children are born in numbers in Fallujah, the city which survived strikes by US shells containing low-enriched uranium…

The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch

02.11.2010 | 09:49 | NIKANDROV Nil
The majority of polls picked Dilma Rousseff as the frontrunner on the eve of the presidential runoff in Brazil. Brazil’s outgoing president Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, a hyper-popular leader whose rating at the final stage of the term in office topped 80%, strengthened Rousseff’s bid for presidency by reiterating that voting for Dilma was in fact the same as voting for him… Lula must be credited with resolving the political continuity problem: his former right-hand woman Dilma Rousseff is sure to take over her predecessor’s list of strategic priorities…

The Two Myths Behind Globalism

01.11.2010 | 09:16 | GORDEEV Konstantin
While only 350 terrorist acts perpetrated by suicide bombers were recorded in 1980-2003 and only 15% of them targeted US citizens, in the much shorter 2004-2009 period of time the number reached 1,833, US citizens being victims in 92% of the cases. Evidently, the surge of suicide bombings over the past six years must be attributable to the US-led NATO campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq and to the Western occupation of the countries.

The Geopolitics of Drug Trafficking

31.10.2010 | 21:01 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr
The geography of drug supplies from Afghanistan explains the drug lords’ increasing interest in the northern drug trafficking route…The Talib surge in Afghanistan’s northern provinces, the fighting with insurgents in Tajikistan’s Rasht valley, and the second Kyrgyz “revolution” may be elements of the same picture – the establishment of favorable conditions for the transit of drugs from Afghanistan… Moscowis increasingly concerned over the situation in Tajikistan…

BRIC at UNSC

31.10.2010 | 12:34 | MAHAPATRA Aurobinda (India)
The selection of India this month as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has catapulted the Brazil – Russia – India – China (BRIC) nations at the highest international body as a force to reckon with… It may not be a pure coincidence that the coming months in this year will see high powered visits from important players in the world to India. While November will witness the visits of the US President and the French President, the month of December will witness the visit of the Russian President and the Chinese Premier…

A Death Sentence to Tariq Aziz Against the WikiLeaks Backdrop

30.10.2010 | 20:10 | MEZYAEV Alexander
Sentencing Tariq Aziz to death came against the backdrop of the WikiLeaks revelations about the war in Iraq. The site published tons of information concerning the war crimes committed by the US and Iraqi military in the country… 31 civilians were killed daily since the outbreak of the war in 2003, and the data shows that lethality in Iraq is five times higher than in Afghanistan… Three years ago Baghdad requested that the UN Security Council set up an international tribunal for Iraq. No response followed at the time, but currently there is no doubt that the tribunal is necessary…

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