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The Anti-Empire Report March 1st, 2011 by William Blum
Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name “Marshall Plan” keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer… Continue reading
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US, UK, French forces land in Libya By Akhtar Jamal
According to an exclusive report confirmed by a Libyan diplomat in the region ‘the three Western states have landed their ‘special forces troops in Cyrinacia and are now setting up their bases and training centres’ to reinforce the rebel forces who are resisting pro-Qaddafi forces in several adjoining areas. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Comment Is Free But Freedom Is Slavery – An Exchange With The Guardian’s Economics Editor
In the dark days before Media Lens existed, and before Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger stopped responding to our emails, he actually granted us the courtesy of a chat by telephone. The interview was notable for its long gaps, its ums and ahs, as Rusbridger responded amiably to our questions about the news propaganda role of… Continue reading
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Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?
Part of the “Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas” conference. Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation New Articles 20-25 December, 2010: India / Russia / Kosovo / Arms Race
25 December, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation India-Russia ties in the “neo-liberal” age 24.12.2010 | 12:47 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) If the official visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to India this week came anywhere being marred, that was from a most unexpected quarter – onions. Indians can’t make curries without onions and the price of Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 November – 3 December, 2010
7 December, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Russia’s Pak tilt 03.12.2010 | 12:01 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) The Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s consultations in Delhi on Monday came as traditional run-up to the annual India-Russia summits. President Dmitry Medvedev is due to visit India on Dec 21-22… Russia, being a global player, has no Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 6-11 November, 2010
11 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation G20 and the Federal Reserve’s Dictate 11.11.2010 | 11:19 | PUSTOVOITOVA Elena The US Federal Reserve announced it would additionally pump some freshly printed $600b into the economy via a new treasuries buying program. The message thus sent to the world is that as always the Federal Reserve Continue reading
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What’s so Funny about Outsourcing? By John Feffer
What were NBC executives thinking? The unemployment rate remains near double digits, and many Americans have simply stopped looking for work. And what does the network premier this fall but a sitcom called Outsourced about an American manager sent to run a call center in India. The jokes revolve around funny names, unappetizing food, Sikh… Continue reading
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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 online magazine latest publications from 2-8 May, 2010
2010-05-02 Rafe MAIR (Canada) As Tehran and Jerusalem Exchange Pleasantries “As we remember, in January 2013, the US invaded Canada to divert to themselves oil destined to go by pipeline from the Tar Sands to the BC coast thence to China. In the fall of this year you’ll also recall that Mexico, under a coalition Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 4 – 10 April, 2010
2010-04-06 Dmitriy BAKLIN Katyn Between the Past and the Future “Katyn, a village 18 km west of Smolensk, Russia became known across the world as the site of mass execution of Polish officers by Stalin’s secret police in April-May, 1940… Oddly enough, Stalin was the first to publicly and officially apologize to Poland for the Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications 21-25 March, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-03-25 Aleksandr SALITZKY Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (II) “ China’s huge package of economic stimuli continues to draw attention worldwide. The investments into manufacturing assets in 2009 totaled 22 trillion yuan, a 30.1% hike compared to 2008 The super-ambitious investment plan intended to keep the Chinese economy crisis-free is being Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation 28 February – 3 March, 2010
Latest publications on China, USA and Mexico Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 21-26 February, 2010
The Iskander Missiles as the Guarantee of Normal Coexistence of Russia and Europe – India-Pakistan Talks after 26/11 – Ukraine: Post-orange challenges Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 14-20 February, 2010
Central Asia: Growing Conflict Potential, Pentagon Bracing for a Snap Offensive Against Venezuela, America godfathers South Asian amity and more … Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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Ashley Smith, “A War of Terror in Pakistan: Interview with Saadia Toor”
The Pakistani Intelligence, with the full knowledge of the U.S., helped create and sustain the Taliban for years. Only after al-Qaeda’s attack on September 11 did the U.S. begin to oppose the Taliban, and once it did, this upset the longstanding relationship between the Pakistani state and the Taliban. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 