Alexander Mezyaev (Russia) Tariq Aziz, another Hussein-era top official the new Iraqi administration plans to do away with, was sentenced to death on October 26. When Iraqi leader S. Hussein was sentenced to death and executed late in 2007, few realized what charges actually led to the verdict. Media coverage […]
Month: October 2010
Abkhazia Has the Potential to Be a Successful State
George Hewitt (UK) George Hewitt is the Professor of Caucasian languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a fellow of the British Academy and the Honorary Consul for Abkhazia to the UK. He is visiting Abkhazia for over 30 years and publishes regularly on the history, languages and […]
Deauville Summit Echo: Reaction of American and European media
Tatiana Tallerova (Russia) While European heavyweights consider the cooperation with Russia to be necessary and mutually beneficial, certain political circles of the USA and their Eastern-European friends still stick to the policy of informational pressure and opposition to the closer between two high rollers on the European arena. And the […]
NATO Leaders Invite “Victors” to Kabul
Vladislav Vorobyev (Russia) US journalists have pounced on another information leak. This time it appears they were told in secret that American soldiers in Afghanistan are not eliminating Taliban leaders. Rather, they are protecting them and even transporting them to Kabul for talks. We can easily imagine the high-ranking militants […]
CIA in Paraguay, or How to Get Rid of a President
Nil Nikandrov (Russia) Paraguay’s current president Fernando Lugo used to be known as “the bishop of the poor”. He made a fairly quick career in the Roman Catholic church’s hierarchy, became a bishop, and later was overwhelmingly voted in as the country’s president. Inaugurated on August 15, 2008, he planned […]
Who Gave Wikileaks the Secrets?
Yuri Shcheglovin (Russia) The latest leak of classified Pentagon materials on the war in Iraq resembles the last volley of artillery fire before a general offensive. It occurred exactly one week before the US congressional elections. That, of course, was no accident and makes us once again question the “integrity […]
US Could no Longer Save World Economy
Mikhail Khazin (Russia) The Marshall Plan era had already passed. The US is no longer able to save the world economy. It can be proved by the contemporary system of the division of labor. Meanwhile, it explains why China’s abilities are limited and it is not capable of boosting the […]
The Taliban Are Beginning to Take Afghanistan
Alexander Dobrovolsky (Russia) Contradictory reports coming in from Afghanistan almost daily about peace talks between members of the Kabul government and representatives of the Taliban not only persuade us that talks are taking place but that they have gone beyond the initial stage of establishing contacts. And that the process […]
Episode 6. Lev Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (I)
«Oddly enough, England, monarchist to the core and conservative at home, always acted in its foreign affairs as the patron saint of demagogic aspirations, always pandering to popular movements who sought to weaken the basis of monarchy altogether.» Memorandum by Peter Durnovo to Tsar Nicholas II, February 1914. The question […]
The Convoy Attacks in Pakistan
Evgeny Kirsanov (Russia) The recent events in Pakistan are an excellent illustration of the serious crisis in American foreign policy. Six NATO convoys have been set on fire in Pakistan over the last two days in areas located different distances from the border with Afghanistan. That in itself is unprecedented, […]
This Is How the Old World Ends
Maksim Kalashnikov (Russia) The second global crisis tsunami: the Group of Seven and Greece. When will the national debt bubble burst? The national debts of the rich Western countries are growing rapidly. The IMF has sounded the alarm: they will reach 110% of total GDP by 2014. The forecasts of […]
Right revolution in America. Part 2.
Michael Dorfman (USA) Part 1 The discreet charm of the elites In the USSR the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell was banned for some reason. Soviet authorities shared the opinion of their Western foes that it was an anti-Soviet book. Some time has passed, the Soviet Union exists no […]
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