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...The actual geopolitical role of the Muslim Brotherhood seems comparable to those of reserve players on the bench, which are used because the autocrat was injured, let’s say by social discredits. They are supported by international financial institutions and global capital groups because they are willing to subordinate themselves to Western plans of transformation... In this regard, the rebellions from Tunis to Cairo worked: nowhere new economic regulation are carried out, on the contrary: each country which in recent decades operated with state-properties and measures to protect local producers from international competition – they may have sailed under socialist or nationalist flags, however perverted and full of elements of corruption – after the so-called Arab spring has to open their markets radically and runs through a tough transition period in terms of new owners...
Hannes HOFBAUER | 24.01.2013 |
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In July 2012 the Russian Duma passed a law which obliges civil society organisations to financing transparency. This includes the declaration and control of foreign money... Russia is not the first country to hinder civil society interventions from outside. So Venezuela closed down the NED-bureau in Caracas in December 2010. And Egypt checked the bureaus of five foreign foundations and brought more than 40 responsible employees (Americans, Germans, Serbians and Egyptians) to the court. They are accused of «illegal activities with illegal money transfers»... With the new Russian law controlling foreign money flow into civil society organisations, the Western «N»GOs are forced to react. USAID is the first to close down its office end of September 2012...
Hannes HOFBAUER | 01.10.2012 |
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The Brussels summit of December 2011 intended to solve a huge fiscal and budget (and in reality an economic) problem in the Euro-zone. It let to a political split within the EU-27 and risks to unleash a constitutional disaster... The summit of Brussels also showed a deep split in form of different approaches towards the capital market. It points at a geopolitical dividing line within the European Union. There seems to be a conflict between banks based on credit business and hedge funds... David Cameron... stands firm beside his Atlantic ally and behaves like an American Trojan horse in a European surrounding...
Hannes HOFBAUER | 17.12.2011 |
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What do these three dead leaders have in common? First and visible the brutal form of their elimination...The Western allies did not hunt Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi because of their bad politics, but because of their good ones. All the three can be seen as symbols for different versions of a “dictatorship for development”. This includes social politics for the masses and national economic modernization...But also their geopolitical position made them suspicious to the Western allies...Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya – all three of them were key states between the two blocks in the period of the Cold War...Their closeness to Moscow had allowed them to keep relative distance to Western economic and political interests. Out of this position “in between” they had developed a certain self-consciousness, which survived the breakdown of the Soviet Union. But without the geopolitical backing this position directly led to catastrophic situations…
Hannes HOFBAUER | 27.10.2011 |
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A new wave of commemoration laws is sloping from Eastern European countries. Their common issue: to declare the denial of communist crimes to be a crime. In December 2010 six new EU member-states asked for a law to prosecute the denial of what is to be declared as a communist crime. The Czech foreign minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, assembled his colleagues from Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania and Latvia to ask Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the EU-Commission, to implement such a law...
Hannes HOFBAUER | 17.05.2011 |
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Slowly but consequently the European Union turns out to be a trap for Germany. The outcome of the current economic crisis puts the question of pure existence for the EU on the agenda... As long as the fleet of US-bombers heading for Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia/Kosovo start from Bavarian Ramstein and the main European centre for military logistic lies in Germany, Polish politicians may express themselves more “American” than America, but Germany will stay Washington’s main and most important partner. To put it clear: Angela Merkel remains the closest ally of Barack Obama...
Hannes HOFBAUER | 06.06.2010 |
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