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Venezuela – U.S. Research File The Interdependence Behind Bilateral Political Tensions: Economic Realities Affecting Venezuela – U.S. Relations By Felix Blossier
In January 2006, the sixth gathering of the World Social Forum, during which Hugo Chávez as well as other left-leaning and socialist leaders fiercely criticized imperialist practices, was held in the Caracas Hilton Hotel. As James Surowiecki noted in an article for The New Yorker six months before the conference opened, a meeting sponsored by… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 28 March -3 April, 2010
2010-03-30 Rafe MAIR (Canada) Is a US attack on Iran inevitable? America knows that as long as the Palestinian question has not been resolved to, at least to the grudging satisfaction of the parties, Iran will get its nuclear weapons and aim them at nuclear armed Israel, thus providing two nations that despise one another… Continue reading
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U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia By Rick Rozoff
So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments. Continue reading
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ICH 1 March, 2010: Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
Can Obama Assassinate Americans? By Nat Hentoff The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm The Picture By David Glenn Cox I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep… Continue reading
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The Iskander Missiles as the Guarantee of Normal Coexistence of Russia and Europe By Anatoly ALIFEROV
Russia went public with the plan to deploy the Iskander missiles at its western frontier – in the Kaliningrad region or on the territories of neighboring countries, but the process of probing into Washington’s reaction is clearly taking too long. In politics, failure to appreciate the importance of acting quickly invariably creates problems, the above… 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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On the Ruins of the Berlin Wall: From the Past to the Future By Dmitriy BAKLIN
In terms of the purpose of its existence the Berlin Wall was a complete analog of the Great Chinese Wall whose construction began in the III century BC (475-221). The Chinese Wall was meant to fortify the frontiers of the Chinese civilization and to help unite the enormous Empire. The second wall – described as… Continue reading
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ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
The century’s longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless armed hostilities that have spread across the length and breadth of the nation, with U.S. and NATO military forces fighting an intensified counterinsurgency conflict in the north,… Continue reading
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NATO vs CSTO: The Fogh of war By Eric Walberg
NATO’s reputation as the guardian of peace on Earth is in tatters these days. Once avowedly an alliance of North America and Western Europe to fight the communist hordes of Eurasia, it morphed into something quite difference with the collapse of the socialist bloc two decades ago. It now pretends to unite all of Europe… Continue reading
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Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System By Rick Rozoff
A change in the American White House, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the mounting costs in both dollars and lives of the war in Afghanistan have not slowed down the U.S.’s plans for military domination of the planet and in outer space; nor have they lessened the threat… Continue reading
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The Biden and Clinton Mutinies By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
At the superficial level Obama is presiding over an undisciplined administration; on a more realistic and sinister construction, he is facing mutiny, publicly conducted by two people who only a year ago were claiming that their qualifications to be in the Oval Office were far superior to those of the junior senator from Illinois. Continue reading
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BRIC Countries are the New Kids on Latin America’s Block
According to their draft communiqué, the BRICs will not formally discuss the role of the dollar in world finance and trade nor the creation of a supranational currency, despite the numerous discussions by BRIC members on these topics before today’s gathering. Subjects under consideration may include revamping the increasingly obsolete contemporary financial system and expanding… Continue reading