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SCO Summit 2025: Eurasia’s Pillar of Security
The Tianjin summit was the largest in the 24-year history of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which has become “a reliable support for member states in maintaining regional stability.” Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: The Bear and the Eagle Face-Off in Alaska
All eyes on Alaska. The Bear-Eagle face-off is part of an astonishing acceleration of history in the summer of 2025. Two weeks after Alaska, there’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) annual summit in Tianjin, China. India’s Narendra Modi and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will join, among others, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the same table.… Continue reading
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Asia’s future takes shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific
Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific Continue reading
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Erdogan repairs Syria ties with eye on Eurasianism
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev regarding the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand on September 15-16. This must be the fourth or fifth time the two leaders confabulated over the upcoming event. One lost count! Continue reading
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Going to Samarkand
The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South. The meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council in Tashkent this past Friday involved some very serious business. That was the key preparatory reunion previous to the… Continue reading
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Russia and China Haven’t Even Started to Ratchet Up the Pain Dial
The Suicide Spectacular Summer Show, currently on screen across Europe, proceeds in full regalia, much to the astonishment of virtually the whole Global South: a trashy, woke Gotterdammerung remake, with Wagnerian grandeur replaced by twerking. Continue reading
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St. Petersburg sets the stage for the War of Economic Corridors
In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-19
As expected, the situation in Afghanistan was the focal point of the discussions at the 20th summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe on Friday. Yet, the SCO’s Dushanbe Declaration is scanty on the topic. Continue reading
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Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in it
The Tehran Times reported on Wednesday that Moscow has conveyed to Tehran that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has reached a consensus on Iran’s admission as a full member of the grouping. Continue reading
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China explains its Afghan motivations
The ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the meeting of the SCO-Afghanistan working group at Dushanbe on July 13-14 have thrown light on the templates of China’s approach to the evolving situation in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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China blocks US bases in Central Asia
Ten months after the first meeting of the foreign ministers of China and the five Central Asian states, Beijing has followed through with a second session on May 11 at a gathering in Xi’an, China, hosted by Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The venue is symbolic. The ancient city of Xi’an used to be the ‘terminus… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 28 July – 3 August 2013: Snowden / Palestine / USA / Hamas / Asia-USA / Canada / Syria / SCO
3 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Snowden: Asylum Granted, Russia-US Ties to Go Through Rough Times 03.08.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia… At present Snowden has been relocated to a «safe place»… Sometime before the asylum was granted, Russia’s President Putin had said Edward Snowden has Continue reading
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America's Long-standing Campaign to Destabilize Russia By Eric Draitser
The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s. However, in examining the recent attacks, it becomes clear that there are… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 11-16 March 2012: Europe / Russia / Middle East / Qatar / SCO / USA / Latin America
17 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Europe on the Brink 16.03.2012 | 00:00 | Vladimir NESTEROV At the moment, it is open to debate whether the Greek default is a fairly inescapable outcome or an accomplished fact, but, clearly, getting the Greeks out of trouble is not the point for those who handle the situation. Continue reading
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Russia united — for the time being By Eric Walberg
The Duma elections held no surprises, but the election turmoil can’t obscure the kind of politics that will continue to characterise Russia over the coming decade thanks to United Russia and its eminence grise, predicts Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 18, 2011
18 November 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Holds First Live-Fire Test Of Interceptor Missile System Video And Text: Cameron of Arabia, Sarkozy of Damascus And Libya Model For Syria Britain, France, Germany Push UN Resolution On Syria U.S. Seeks News Blackout Of Afghan Strategic Deal India Headed For Full SCO Membership: Russian Foreign Minister U.S. Continue reading
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War Clouds Form over Iran By Wayne Madsen
Israel’s all-powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization composed of Israeli collaborators, infiltrators, and outright traitors to the United States, is steamrolling through the House of Representatives H.R. 1905, which would prohibit the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, members of the U.S. Foreign Service, or… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: November 8, 2011
8 November 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Ambassador Daalder Recruits Libya For NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue Obama, Rasmussen Discuss Libya, Afghanistan, Chicago NATO Missile Shield Threat To Region: Iran NATO Implementing Interceptor Missile Shield For Armed Forces In Europe U.S., NATO Move Ahead With MEADS Interceptor Missile Test ‘Cruel And Barbaric Act’: NATO Troops Kill Afghan Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war: Stop NATO news: November 7, 2011
7 November 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Chief To Meet Obama In Washington NATO Secretary General’s Visit Signals New Stage Of Georgia’s Integration Georgia To Join NATO According To West German Model: Official Ballistic Missile Drill: Largest U.S.-Israel Joint Exercise Ever Kosovo Checkpoint Conflict Unresolved Russia: SCO To Openly Challenge U.S.-NATO In South, Central Asia? Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: November 6, 2011
6 November 2011 — Stop NATO With Gunfire In Background, Libyan ‘Rebels’ Demand Salaries U.S. AWACS Crew Returns From Greece After Gaddafi Killed Between NATO Summits: Obama To Host Portuguese Counterpart Germany: Pentagon Officials Inspect NATO Global Full-Spectrum Training NATO Commander In Germany To Plan For Chicago Summit, ‘Future Operations’ Virginia: NATO Ambassadors Meet On Continue reading
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