regime change
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Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria By Finian CUNNINGHAM
A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing reports this week of an alleged chemical weapon massacre near Damascus where some reports put the death toll at over 1,100. Continue reading
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The Pentagon was behind Egypt's Military Coup By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
People are protesting because their living standards have collapsed and they saw in this new government an avenue of change. But bear in mind: the United States is supporting both sides and their objective and their strategy is to destabilize this country as a nation-state.” Continue reading
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Syria: the Art of Standing on the Right Side of History
The ongoing Syrian crisis will be certainly viewed by future generations as a classic example of how a completely false reality, as presented by the dominant Western political class and corporate media, has inscrutably resulted in the moral and political reinforcement of the opposing party, which was desperately defending the principles of law and justice… Continue reading
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Who Killed the Syrian Peace Talks? The Rebels have been Defeated. Is the War Over? By Shamus Cooke
The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already-tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe…or worse. Continue reading
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Syria’s Civilian Suffering – Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity By Finian Cunningham
The human suffering in Syria, which has escalated from crisis to disaster over the past two years, is the nefarious work of Western governments and their regional allies. It is a simple, provable, glaringly obvious truth. Yet, the thought-control Western mainstream media manage to somehow turn reality on its head, and make a virtue out… Continue reading
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The reasons for the crisis on the Korean Peninsula By Alexander VORONTSOV
The initial cause is the unresolved outcome of the Korean War (1950-1953). This year marks 60 years since the end of the war and a peace agreement between its participants has still not been signed Only one Armistice Agreement exists (possibly on paper only these days), so a temporary cessation of hostilities, in other words.… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-13 April 2013: Korea / Israel / Central Asia / Venezuela / Heroin / Mali
12 April 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Is Central Asia Ripe for Regime Change? (III) 13.04.2013 | 10:33 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR Continue reading
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The US is the Don Corleone of international politics
This article is about the US attempts to destabilize Venezuela, as shown in the GIFiles released by Wikileaks. More widely, the article gives an historical background of US interventions in Latin America, and analyses its strategical behavior in this part of the world. Continue reading
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Secret Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses
Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing Continue reading
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U.S.’s Duplicitous Policy Toward Syria
The United States recognized the Syrian Opposition Council, Syria’s newly formed main opposition group, as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people on Tuesday. It is evident that the US-led Western countries are determined to push their own agenda on the Syria crisis. Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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Friends of Syria’s goal is to ‘destroy the country by force and use its strategic geographical location for their own purposes’ – interview By Fahim al-Sourani
The Friends of Syria nations that support regime change meet in Morocco on Wednesday for the first time since the creation of a new opposition coalition seeking wider international recognition. Voice of Russia spoke to the Director of the Damascus Research Centre Bassam Abu Abdullah about this upcoming event. He called this meeting the meeting… Continue reading
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US tightens military noose around Syria By Bill Van Auken
Amid an escalating drumbeat about a supposed threat that Syria’s government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its own people, Washington has deployed a naval armada off the country’s coast. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Houla Massacre Update – The UN Report By David Edwards
US and UK politicians were clearly desperate to use Houla to stoke their regime-change agenda. Rehearsing the crude tactics of the Bush-Blair era, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague endlessly repeated their damning judgements: facts were irrelevant, propaganda stunts everything. No holds were barred. The media, as ever, were… Continue reading
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HRW Report on “Syrian Torture” Nonsensical, Hypocritical by Tony Cartalucci
Careless readers might think report covers Western atrocities committed in Afghanistan and Iraq Continue reading
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RT: Washington's road to Iran goes through Syria By Veronika Krasheninnikova
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that the principle of “mutual consent” on which a “transitional government”in Syria would be based, means President Assad has to go. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the contrary, insists the formation of a “transitional government” will be made on inclusive basis. Continue reading
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World On The Brink Of Third World War By Nadir Mir*
US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russia resurgent, the Islamic world defiant (with the Arab Spring likely to turn anti-Western) and Israel endangered, besides Western economic… Continue reading