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Libya's «Freedom Fighters» Found to Engage in Pillage

15:00 15.07.2011 Dmitri Sedov

Libya's «Freedom Fighters» Found to Engage in Pillage

According to a recent New York Times article, Human Rights Watch released materials citing cases of gross abuse by anti-Gadhafi rebels in a mountainous area located in the western part of Libya. Incidents are reported to have taken place in the towns of Qawalish, Awaniya, Rayaniyah and Zawiyat al-Bagul seized …

Preventive Diplomacy: No Asian Century without the pan-Asian Institution

15:00 14.07.2011 Anis Bajrektarević

Preventive Diplomacy: No Asian Century without the pan-Asian Institution

For over a decade, many of the relevant academic journals are full of articles prophesizing the 21st as the Asian century. The argument is usually based on the impressive economic growth, increased production and trade volumes as well as the booming foreign currency reserves and exports of many populous Asian …

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

8:10 14.07.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

One of the paradoxes we are witnessing these days is that financial embarrassments hit the world's richest countries. The US Administration has no money for social security payments, while Brussels struggles to mobilize sufficient funds to keep its debt-ridden economies – Greece and Portugal – afloat and faces the prospects …

Will international terrorists help the U.S. build ‘The Greater Middle East’?

15:00 13.07.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Will international terrorists help the U.S. build ‘The Greater Middle East’?

The so-called ‘Arab spring’, which started as a wave of anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt, is now developing in full accordance with the US scenario, its main aim being to reshape the geopolitics, which the Bush administration once described as ‘The Greater Middle East’ plan.Emphasis is made on maintaining …

No Point in Discarding State Capitalism

15:00 11.07.2011 Alexander Salitsky

No Point in Discarding State Capitalism

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. It is unclear at the moment how the …

Developments in Afghanistan From the Greater Middle East Perspective

15:00 11.07.2011 Alexander Knyazev

Developments in Afghanistan From the Greater Middle East Perspective

Any developments in Afghanistan and the adjacent region should be interpreted within a wider picture of Washington's geopolitical project known as the Greater Middle East, the plan to set up a Greater Pashtunistan being an integral part of the design. The idea predictably struck a cord with a considerable fraction …

Tears and blood in Athens

15:00 04.07.2011 George Protopapas

Tears and blood in Athens

Greek government passed an unpopular austerity programme on Wednesday provoking the strong reaction of public opinion. Syntagma Square, the headquarter of greek protesters - have camped out at square for weeks – became the center of bloody clashes between police and fringe masked anarchists. The majority of greek leading newspapers …

Croatia’s EU membership will bring balkanization to Europe

15:00 28.06.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Croatia’s EU membership will bring balkanization to Europe

On June 24, at a meeting in Brussels the European Council decided for further enlargement of the European Union – on July 1, 2013 Croatia should become the 28th members of the EU. In December the final document on the admission of Croatia to the EU is expected to be …

Default by Greece and the US

15:00 24.06.2011 Yuri Gavrilechko

Default by Greece and the US

In mid June Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, said a default by Greece is “almost certain” and could help drive the US economy into recession. Greenspan’s loud statement on Greece may be a “sound curtain” to prepare the global community to a default by the US. First – a …

The Ghost of Goebbels: Historical Revisionism and World War II

15:00 21.06.2011 Wayne Madsen

The Ghost of Goebbels: Historical Revisionism and World War II

Nazi Party's uniform of Joseph Goebbels. Archives of Russia's Federal Security Service. An expected outgrowth of the world's steady descent into total and extreme capitalist control is the increasing tendency by some historians and their accomplices in the media to re-invent certain aspects of history. Although the history of the …

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