Strategic Culture
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New geopolitical orientation completed: What do the killings of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi have in common? By Hannes HOFBAUER
At this moment of time there was hardly anyone left who believed in the official version legitimating the foreign intervention. UN-resolution 1973 from the 17th of March 2011 empowered a coalition of willing states around NATO to intervene militarily in a regional uprising to build a shelter over the civic population, to protect civilians. The… Continue reading
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‘New’ Libya to be ruled by Islamic law, polygamy permitted
Islamic sharia law will prevail in liberated Libya and any existing laws that contradict it will be abolished, National Transitional Council leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Monday. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 October 2011: Tar Sands / China / Russia / Chavez / Pakistan / USA
8 October 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Tar Sands in Alberta and the Future of Obama 08.10.2011 | 00:00 | Rafe MAIR (Canada) There is no question that Mr. Obama is being beaten up by the Republicans, especially the right wing “Tea Party” group… Mr. Obama is already being pummelled for bailing out big banks Continue reading
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Dmitri Sedov – In and Around Libya
The sliding of the civil war in Libya into a new phase tilted considerably the balance of forces in the country. Some of Gadhafi’s supporters continue to mount stiff resistance in Bani Walid, Siret, and Sabha and at least so far manage to keep attackers out of the strongholds. A few days ago they even… Continue reading
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Bitter clashes on in Libyan capital
The troops that are loyal to Gaddafi, as well as his supporters, have repulsed a rebel attack on the Bu-Salim district of Tripoli, with dozens of rebels and foreign mercenaries fighting against Gaddafi reported killed in the attack. Continue reading
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NATO troops in Libya: No entry, no exit By Konstantin Bogdanov
The saga of Tripoli’s fall and the toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya continues. The European allies seem to be launching a new phase of their Libyan operation, one that is marked by even greater military involvement. So far, only one thing is certain: increased activity in terms of technical intelligence gathering and on… Continue reading
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M.K. Bhadrakumar (India) – It is going to be Syria’s turn next
The narrative from Tripoli bears uncanny resemblance to Baghdad: A brutal, megalomaniacal dictator, who seemed omnipotent, gets overthrown by the people, and a wave of euphoria sweeps over an exhausted land. As the celebrations erupt, the western benefactor-cum-liberator walks on to the centre stage, duly taking stance on the ‘right side of history’. In the… Continue reading
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Аnatoly Tsyganok – Four months of war in Libya
NATO’s military operation against Libya, conducted mainly by the armed forces of the US, France and Britain, is speeding up the formation of a new system of international relations. At the same time the war serves as a firing ground for testing the strategy of the United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) in real combat situation… Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Alexander Salitski – No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I)
Last June, Russia’s series of investment forums presented Moscow with an opportunity to unveil plans for a serious correction of its economic policies, and what seems to be at the bottom line is a radical departure from the concept of state capitalism. Continue reading
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New a Strategic Culture Foundation 7-15 July 2011: Afghanistan / Syria / India / USA / Tunisia /
16 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Wali Karzai Assassination and Its Consequences 15.07.2011 | 12:00 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH What is not contested is that Ahmad Wali’s untimely death will add another layer of high uncertainty to the political and administrative turbulence that now prevails in Afghanistan. Ahmad Wali was indisputably, from the Continue reading
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Libyan PM urges UN intervention to stop NATO military attack
11 July 2011 TRIPOLI, July 10 (Xinhua) — Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi has urged UN intervention to stop NATO military attacks against the north African country, local media reported. Al-Mahmoudi made this appeal when meeting Saturday with Abdel Elah al-Khatib, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Libya. NATO’s intensive airstrikes have caused Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 July 2011: China / NATO / Nazism / Canada / Lithuania
8 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I) 08.07.2011 | 15:42 | Alexander SALITZKI It is common knowledge that the past three decades highlighted the fundamental advantages of modern Asia’s pattern of economic progress. The pattern can be defined as a combination of the modernization imperative and the practice Continue reading
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Final Statement – Adopted by the International History Conference Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War
We are increasingly alarmed with the current rise of revisionism of the history of World War II in the West and in several post-Soviet republics where incendiary political considerations outweigh commitment to historical accuracy. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-18 June 2011: Afghanistan | SCO | USA | Pakistan | Iran | India | Russia
18 June 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Will Pay-for-Peace Work in Afghanistan? 18.06.2011 | 00:34 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India) …Can international community play a meaning role in the post-NATO Taliban? It will depend on how the regional and international powers formulate their policies while respecting mutual differences. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has taken a positive Continue reading
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Vladimir Nesterov – US-Chinese Rivalry Over Africa Gaining Momentum
A China-Africa summit convened in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, 2009, the two highlights of the forum being Beijing’s pledge to extend $10b in loans to African countries in return for commodity deals and the signing of a host of impressive contracts in the sphere of infrastructure construction by Chinese companies. Continue reading
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Special Report: Foreign Military Intervention in Libya
NATO has resumed operations over Tripoli, as aircraft launched strikes on the heart of the capital. The renewed bombardment comes after a brief respite that followed the heaviest day of bombing since the campaign began. Continue reading
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NATO’s “Alternate Universe” in Libya By Wayne Madsen
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli… Continue reading
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M.K.Bhadrakumar (India) – Caveats in the Yemeni narrative
The Arab Spring has finally become beastly, marching stealthily and devouring a third dictator in the Middle East when it all but seemed that the region was lapsing back to its bad old ways of autocratic rule. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 