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It became clear after the Seoul nuclear summit that the USA sticks to the old policy that goes back to 1945 – to monopolize the right to use nuclear weapons by making their non-proliferation part of international law in combination with new restrictive measures against others including Russia. It all should lead to the return of US global nuclear superiority...
Leonid SAVIN | 09.04.2012 |
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...Atlanticism is on the march. Both NATO’s operations in the Balkans and the Arab World are intended to expand the Euro-Atlantic Zone. Its involvement in African Union missions in East Africa are also tied to this. For all observers who take a detailed look at the restructuring of states vanquished by NATO, this should be very clear. Humanitarianism has become the new face of modern imperialism.
Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA | 30.03.2012 |
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The fall of autocratic regimes in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, which had more to do with skyrocketing unemployment and inflation than in a desire to «democratize,» gave the circling vultures of Western «pro-democracy» think tanks and foundations the opportunity to put stakes in the hearts of governing pan-Arab socialist political parties long seen as a threat to the goals of «uber-capitalist» globalization. The Ba’ath socialist party of Saddam Hussein in Iraq was the first victim of a desire by the global forces of extreme capitalism to re-make the Middle East’s financial, demographic, political, and social construct... Now, history is repeating itself in Syria where another faction of the Ba’ath Party has been in power for decades. Syria is the birthplace of Ba’athist socialism...
Wayne MADSEN | 07.03.2012 |
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The news of a plea deal for US Marine squad leader Frank Wuterich charged in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 neither caused a sensation nor even grabbed the headlines for a considerable period of time in the US media and the Internet. Initially, Wuterich faced three months of confinement... In stark contrast, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, for example, was locked up behind bars for 21 months in 2007 for arranging deadly dog fights at his house in South Virgina, but obviously the US justice finds it appropriate to value the lives of America's dogs above those of Iraqi civilians...
Dmitriy SEDOV | 30.01.2012 |
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On Dec. 15, 2011, the US finally pulled out of the country. Now the operation is over with the lives of 4,487 service members lost and about 33 thousand wounded... Now is the time to have a look at what the aftermath of the ill conceived military operation... The United States proved its inability to effectively fight two simultaneous wars what. When US General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says in an interview with CNN published Wednesday (December 21, 2011) that preparations are being made for a possible strike in Iran a question pops up – has the US military brass absorbed any lessons of Iraq?..
Andrei AKULOV | 22.12.2011 |
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The US withdrawal from Iraq means neither a triumph of democracy nor a victory over terrorism in the region. Human life in the country remains completely defenseless in the wake of the long occupation, and, by pulling out its forces, Washington simply leaves it to others to clash on the Iraqi battlefield. As for the US, it has no reasons to be proud of the Iraqi campaign, and for the Iraqis America is an evil and hostile power that reversed by decades the development of their country...
Sergei SHASHKOV | 12.12.2011 |
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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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Al-Qaeda’s virulent Wahhabi, anti-Shi’ite ideology is sheer poison for Iran...The US has sought and obtained Iran’s acquiescence in its strategies in Iraq ever since the invasion in 2003...The “pro-West” Persian Gulf states are terrified of Shi’ite empowerment, for which they blame US misadventure in Iraq. On the other hand, Israel is hopping mad that it faces regional isolation and Obama isn’t resolute about vanquishing Iranian influence, especially in next-door Egypt, which used to be Israel’s playpen. And, of course, Israel dreads to think Iran may gain direct access to the Levant via Iraq...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 30.07.2011 |
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“Mission accomplished”- that`s how a banner displayed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was titled during a televised address by the then U.S. President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003...However, there was a grain of truth to Bush`s words: Saddam Hussein, Israel's major enemy was toppled, while the resources of the richest Mideast state were now in control of the U.S. In the subsequent eight years Americans were trying to strengthen their presence in the region and ensure control of Iraqi oil fields...The most oil-rich areas of Iraq were divided between Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Weatherford Intl and Schlumberger, all four companies linked to Texas…
Sergei SHASHKOV | 28.07.2011 |
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The Arab League summit in Iraq resembles more a kind of a surrealistic scenario: when hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets in different Arab towns, ready to topple ruling leaders, debates on 'unity of Arab nation' taking place in devastated country may become an indicator of Arabic ummah...
Sergei SHASHKOV | 03.02.2011 |
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