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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 October 2013
12 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US: Debts and Back Up 12.10.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV The published piece called America’s Debt: Upper and Lower Tips of Iceberg offers a wide range of assessments to determine the size of US debt. Today the country has to raise the debt ceiling again, otherwise the United States will Continue reading
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The Abdication of the Emir of Qatar Due to the Collapse of Anti-Syrian Forces By Dmitry MININ
Local analysts believe that the decision is a result of gathering problems with the policy the emirate has been carrying out over the last 3-4 years, especially regarding the Syria issue. The Emir does have problems with his health (he had a kidney transplant in 1997 and needs constant dialysis), but he is perfectly competent… Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are… Continue reading
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The Syrian Pendulum By Dmitry MININ
In recent days on the battlefield, the scales have clearly been tipping in favor of the government forces. Western strategists are faced with a choice: either admit that the attempt to establish a puppet regime in Syria has failed, or set aside all their «soft power» gimmicks and switch to an open and expensive military… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (VII) By Dmitry MININ
Historian Niall Ferguson states that the majority of modern-day academics see an entirely appropriate parallel between the “imperial rule” of the USA and the British Empire as it was 100 years ago. Joseph Nye, meanwhile, believes that “not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others… Respected analysts on both the left… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (VI) Dmitry MININ
The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European Union initially pursued an imperial policy with regard to countries in Central and Eastern Europe that had joined the EU,… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ
A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24 February – 2 March 2013: Empires / Kosovo / Iraq / Cuba / Niger-Uranium / Bulgaria
2 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kerry Brings Image of Dapper Diplomacy to Ugly Face of Washington’s Imperialism02.03.2013 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM Any illusions about a possible change in direction for American foreign policy were blown away this week with Kerry’s visit to Europe. And it was Kerry himself who blew away such illusions Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (IV) By Dmitry MININ
The rebirth of imperial policy in modern international life demands an answer to the question: why are seemingly long obsolete geopolitical projects being dragged into the light of day at all when there are organisations like NATO and the European Union? Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (III) By Dmitry MININ
The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States’ «imperial overheating», is based on the currently popular concept of «smart power», the very emergence of which suggests that America’s former sources of power have been… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (II) By Dmitry MININ
The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, in view of its uncertainty in people’s minds, is indiscriminate to such… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (I) By Dmitry MININ
The recent expeditions of the French in Africa clearly smack less of neoimperialism than they do neocolonialism, and have prompted many to wonder whether the events are the start of a new cycle of world politics in which an outgoing unipolarity is perhaps being replaced by a forthcoming multipolarity not hailed by everyone, or something… Continue reading
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Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»? By Dmitry MININ
According to initial reports, the Israeli Air Force delivered air strikes on January 30 at night, the target was a defense chemical facility situated in the vicinity of Damascus. The interpretation was rapidly picked up by Syrian opposition. It made easier to explain why the historic enemy was on its side. Continue reading
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Zbigniew Brzezinski as a mirror of American devolution (II) By Dmitry MININ
We are halfway through the time allotted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his landmark book «The Grand Chessboard», when he predicted that U.S. dominance in the world would remain unchallenged for a period of thirty years. Now just 15 years on and in his new book «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power», he… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 30 December 2012 – 5 January 2013: USA / Kyrgyzstan / Zbigniew Brzezinski
5 January 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Federal Reserve System Should Be Nationalized 03.01.2013 | 00:00 | Olga SHEDROVA The United States is the only state in the world destitute of the right to issue its own currency. The role of central bank is carried out by the Federal Reserve System – a joint stock Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 November 2012: USA / Israel / Syria / Gaza / Obama
24 November 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation The American Gulag as the latest form of capitalism (II) 24.11.2012 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV The American example of the use of prison labor in the interests of private capital was contagious. Private prisons also appeared in a number of other states – the UK, Sweden, Estonia, Australia, and Continue reading
The New Dark Age 