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The US and Russian presidents are to meet each other on May 18-19 on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Camp David. It serves the purpose to have at least a cursory look at the background the historic event is going to take place against...
Andrei AKULOV | 24.04.2012 |
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The idea to control the world with neuroscience is tempting... At Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay the USA resorted to repugnant methods such as sensory deprivation, near drowning and “self-inflicted pain” techniques to achieve control over defenseless prisoners. In March 2012 the Pentagon started an emergency review of the use of an anti-malaria drug known to have severe psychiatric side effects by the military - nine days after the Afghan massacre in which a U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly shot dead 17 civilians including nine children...
Andrei AKULOV | 12.04.2012 |
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The agreement to explore in greater detail the establishment of a BRICS Development Bank (South-South Bank) and an Infrastructure Investment Fund is an issue of special importance... An agreement to replace the US dollar by own currencies in mutual credit lines is a great achievement of the summit too. The member countries demonstrated a desire to reduce the risks associated with the current economic woes in the United States. Actually it means that BRICS countries are saying that the US economy is currently ineffective and prone to risks...
Andrei AKULOV | 01.04.2012 |
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On March 5 Republican Senator John McCain urged the United States to launch airstrikes against Syria to force the government out of power. The Senator called for military intervention without further delay. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and the GOP’s senior member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the U.S. should start arming Syria's rebels and spearhead military efforts to support them... John McCain stated the USA needs no UN resolution to launch the attack. He said the historic precedent is more important than a mandate and adduced the example of NATO’s military action in Kosovo in 1999 without formal U.N. authorization...
Andrei AKULOV | 12.03.2012 |
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A whiff of gunpowder is in the air... The USA is going to attack a Muslim country of about 77 million people, with asymmetric response capability... An attack without adoption of a correspondent UN Security Council resolution is a flagrant violation of international law... The last declassified US National Intelligence Estimate made public on January 31 2012 by General Clapper concluded there is no solid evidence Iran is actively developing a nuclear weapons program...
Andrei AKULOV | 28.02.2012 |
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Everything points to the fact that Israeli’s air attack on Iran is imminent... Israel has less time to act than the U.S. if it chooses to mount a strike alone. Because Israel has less firepower, its leaders assess that a unilateral strike would be most effective before summer. After that, by Israeli estimates, Iran may have been able to move too much of its nuclear operation underground, beyond the range of Israeli missile and bomb attacks...
Andrei AKULOV | 15.02.2012 |
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Roughly 34 thousand civilians lost their lives in Afghanistan as a result of «mistakes» committed by NATO servicemen. On February 4, 2012 a new UN report saw light saying the number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghan conflict has risen for the fifth year in a row. The 2011 Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict said civilian deaths from air strikes in support of the Afghan government rose in 2011. «Afghan children, women and men continue to be killed in this war in ever-increasing numbers», said Jan Kubis, UN Special Representative for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
Andrei AKULOV | 13.02.2012 |
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A few days ago US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), General James Clapper, accompanied by the chief of the CIA, General David Petraeus and FBI director Robert Mueller, gave Congress their annual assessment of the world’s security situation. The report on the world threats is a result of many months of work carried out by 16 intelligence services. The 30-page unclassified review of the state of the world presented the vision of global trends along with threats and challenges the USA faces in 2012. The core idea is that there is no single major adversary, the treats are multiple and versatile...
Andrei AKULOV | 08.02.2012 |
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Moscow does not intend to propose any initiatives on missile defense, which the U.S. could interpret as concessions. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio station. He emphasized the negotiations on this subject proceed with difficulty, but they are not at an impasse. "A political decision is feasible, if there is a will to seek compromise," - said the official. We cannot simply adopt the American position. This would amount to action in detriment of one’s own interests," - added Ryabkov...
Andrei AKULOV | 30.01.2012 |
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The US military will be reshaped between now and 2020 with an emphasis on countering terrorism, maintaining a nuclear deterrent, protecting the U.S. homeland and «deterring and defeating aggression by any potential adversary»... Even with $500 billion in reductions, the United States will continue to spend more on defense each year in the next decade than it did during the height of the Cold War and more than the next 10 countries combined. In other words, new and old tactics are featured. Strategies are unchanged. It’s all about abetting regional instability to justify US intervention...
Andrei AKULOV | 20.01.2012 |
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