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An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

14:00 18.11.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

Several days since the Seoul G20 summit, the majority of comments are quite reasonably displaying a total lack of optimism. The forum passed the Seoul declaration, churned out several other documents, and generated an initiative to establish a global financial security network mostly based on the IMF mechanisms. The summit …

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

14:00 16.11.2010 Victor Kovalev

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions in the interests of the core of the modern capitalist world-system. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West's victory in the Cold World …

Atlantism: Sneaking into Russia via the EU

14:00 15.11.2010 Leonid Savin

Atlantism: Sneaking into Russia via the EU

Recent political developments in the EU show that certain forces in Europe and the US are implementing in the western part of Eurasia a New Atlantism project aligned with the US plan for the game on the Grand Chessboard. Ideologically, Atlantim is premised in the assumption that the US should …

China and US: a clash of interests

14:00 13.11.2010 Alexander Salitsky

China and US: a clash of interests

Two events which had been anticipated for quite long took place in the U.S. shortly before the G20 summit in Seoul. On 2 November the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives, and on 3 November the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that it would pump $600 billion into the …

G20 in the Labyrinths of the Global Economy

14:00 12.11.2010 Elena Ponomareva

G20 in the Labyrinths of the Global Economy

The Seoul G20 summit will stay on record as a failed attempt to find a way out of the labyrinths of the global economy. At the moment the group of twenty global economy champions is locked in two bitter disputes: one between the proficit and the deficit countries and the …

G20 and the Federal Reserve's Dictate

14:00 11.11.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

G20 and the Federal Reserve's Dictate

The US Federal Reserve announced it would additionally pump some freshly printed $600b into the economy via a new treasuries buying program. The message thus sent to the world is that as always the Federal Reserve is going to advance its own interests regardless of the impact of its steps …

The echo of the past war

14:00 10.11.2010 Natalia Meden

The echo of the past war

Great Britain has unveiled plans to cut its military budget by 8% in the next four years, which is the biggest cut since the end of the World War II. On hearing it Washington voiced concern over possible weakening of its ally’s defense potential. In Germany the reaction on the …

Israel’s cyber wars

14:00 09.11.2010 Nikolai Dimlevich

Israel’s cyber wars

In the situation of military and political standoff against the Arabic World the authorities of Israel are paying particular attention to the information war. The national intelligence service and the computer systems and communication department of the General Staff of the Israeli armed forces are in charge of planning and …

Obama's India Tour

14:00 09.11.2010 Andrei Volodin

Obama's India Tour

Political commentator George Friedman wrote in the aftermath of the November US midterms which left the Democrats with a headache: "Obama comes out of this election severely weakened domestically. If he continues his trajectory, the rest of the world will perceive him as a crippled president, something he needn't be …

The Lame Ducks Season

14:00 08.11.2010 Irina Lebedeva

The Lame Ducks Season

Washington-Boston November 15 will open the lame ducks season in the US: in the six weeks left till the new Congress is to take over, voting by the politicians temporarily exempt from accountability to their constituencies may produce otherwise unlikely results. The November 3 midterm elections predictably marked a comeback …

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