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Latest publications from 17 November , 2009 - 2 January, 2010

2009-12-29
Victor KORGUN
US in Afghanistan: Hunting for Ghosts
“The anti-war mood in the US is rapidly gaining momentum — as of today, 52% of Americans want the US to withdraw from Afghanistan. The fact is no secret to the Talibs who therefore are feeling ever more confident in their pursuit of dominance over the country…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2677

2009-12-30
Nil NIKANDROV
Secret CIA Jails in Lithuania: Legacy of Nazi Collaborationism
“The exact number of inmates who had been to the CIA jails in Lithuania is unknown. In most cases, eight individuals are reported to have been held in the Antaviliai torture chamber by the time it was closed in November, 2005. The truth is that chartered planes from Afghanistan came to Lithuania with certain regularity, and the number of people tortured had probably been some ten times higher…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2678

2009-12-27
William BOWLES (United Kingdom)
The Iraq “Inquiry”, a theatre of the absurd
“Why does the extermination of an entire culture cause not a ripple in our public discourse? The answer is obvious: we don’t have any kind of discourse with those who wield power. The Chilcot ‘Inquiry’ demonstrates this down to a tee. It’s brazen in its disregard for the reality of the crimes the British state has committed in Iraq and continues to commit in Afghanistan…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2681

2009-12-28
F. William ENGDAHL (Germany)
The Big Black Hole in the Dollar’s Future
For months the US Government has insisted that the worst of the “recession” is nearing an end and that “green shoots” of recovery are at hand. The reality is opposite. The financial crisis that began in August 2007 in the small “sub-prime” or high-risk segment of the $20 trillion mortgage debt market is now spreading, lawfully, to the “prime” or high-quality segment. The economy of the world’s sole Superpower is coming to resemble more than of the Roman Empire in the fourth Century as it collapsed into anarchy, debt and chaos…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2684

2009-12-30
Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria)
Ukraine after the presidential elections: how to overcome economic crisis and social misery?
“One of the main tasks of the new Ukrainian president would be to push back the influence of the IMF by widening the field of national politics and to balance economic dependencies… Westernisation alone is not the correct answer as long as Western interests include the danger of splitting the country…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2688

2009-12-31
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
“Smart power” and “bear traps” in the Hindu Kush
“The US President Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at the regional powers with his latest Afghan strategy. The constructive ambiguity in his strategy falls in the Kissingerian tradition of negotiating tactic. In a climate of deeply polarized political opinion, he is free to advance matters of vital US interests, while retaining the prerogative to revisit unresolved questions at a date of his choice. This leaves major regional powers – Pakistan, Iran, India, China and Russia – in some quandary. Obama taunted them to respond within 58 days when they assemble for the London conference on “Afghanisation” on January 28…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2689

latest publications from 20 - 26 December, 2009

2009-12-22
Aleksandr SHUSTOV
Turkmenistan looks eastward
“The launch of a new gas pipe on December 14 to connect Turkmenistan and China became one of the key moments in a geopolitical game aimed to win new routes of exporting Central Asian oil and gas resources. The launching ceremony for the gas pipe took place at the Samandep field in Turkmenistan and was attended by Presidents Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan) and Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan). The new gas pipe will be the first route to deliver the Turkmen gas (up to 40 bln cubic meters per year) to external markets bypassing Russia…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2662

2009-12-23
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
The denial in the Hindu Kush
“Eugene O”Neill’s American masterpiece The Emperor Jones is not an easily accessible play. The play spotlights the charismatic Pullman porter Brutus Jones. But it is the burdens of the history of slavery he carries, the ghosts of America’s slave trade that can’t be exorcised from the floor space that surrounds him, which form the profoundly moving core of the play’s allegory…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2671

2009-12-24

Address by Russians of Ukraine
“It is more than twenty years since the issue of the Russian language in Ukraine has been a source of a growing public discord. The Russian language has been consistently and systematically repressed and ousted from education and culture, the state and public agencies, putting in practice the compulsory (exclusive) use of the Ukrainian language. The cases of direct or indirect language discrimination have deliberately been suppressed and have never been tried adequately in Ukrainian courts…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2675

latest publications from 13 - 19 December, 2009

2009-12-17
Andrei KONUROV
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
“Germany still, twenty years on, cannot realize itself as a whole country. A spirit of arrogance so typical for the way the winners in the Cold War have been exploring geopolitical resources of the defeated countries now affects the integration of eastern Germans into the economy of their western compatriots…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2654

2009-12-18
Andrei ARESHEV
US’ “Big Central Asia” and Russia
“How will Moscow act in the context of the expanding of the US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan and the intensification of drug traffic, which threatens Russia’s national security? What will be the result of this policy for Russia? As for the statements about the mutual goal of Russia and the alliance to fight international terrorism is only a cliché of diplomatic politeness or the evidence of our country’s readiness to provide support “friends” in the Euro-Atlantic alliance? Many things depend on the answer to this question…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2660

latest publications from 6- 12 December, 2009

2009-12-06
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Just how will the International Court of Justice rule on Kosovo?
“The hearings of the UN International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo’s independence will obviously confirm the “world community’s” inability to meet the modern-day challenges… Efforts will continue to be made to create in Central Europe an Albanian quasi-state as an outpost of the “new world order”… Meanwhile Moscow and Russian society continue to support Serbia’s sovereignty over Kosovo… Now it is important to find the staunch supporters of the Serbian people’s interests and Russia’s true friends on Serbia’s motley political map. Russian diplomacy could do that very well in its day…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2624

2009-12-09
Olga CHETVERIKOVA
Copenhagen climate change summit: speculators’ show
“After an annual meeting of the Bilderberg Club in May 2009, the establishment of the global management system of institutions seemed to have been given a boost… global managers were instructed to work in two major ways: first, to invent a myth about the danger of swine flu pandemic… and impose a threat of global warming to gain control of world natural resources and introduce a unified 'green' tax…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2634

2009-12-07
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
The Revamping of the AfPak Strategy and Implications
“The US President Barack Obama on 1 December 2009 announced a ‘surge’ of troops in Afghanistan as a measure to further bolster his Afghanistan-Pakistan (AfPak) strategy unveiled in March 2009… Obama wants to increase the number of US troops by 30,000 (thus further adding to already stationed 71,000 US troops in the region)… The new plan envisages even luring the Taliban to join the political process by applying carrot and stick policy…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2635

2009-12-10
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Reinventing the Partnership
“The summit level meeting between India and Russia has marked a decade this year with the three-day visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Russia… As the joint statement on 7 December made clear, both the countries enjoy special relationship and in this competitive world scenario the problem of terrorism, the changing dynamics in the AfPak region, the energy and other areas of economic cooperation are some of the important areas of common interest…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2643

2009-12-10
Arun MOHANTY (India)
Successful Indo-Russian Summit at Moscow
“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Moscow coming on the heels of his visit to Washington tempts one to compare the two summits… Washington summit was rich in gesture, rhetoric but almost hollow in substance in contrast to Moscow summit that was rich both in gesture and content. India’s expectations from Washington summit were belied in contrast to the significant outcome of Moscow summit…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2644

2009-12-11
Eugene IVANOV (USA)
President Obama’s energy program was torpedoed ahead of a climate summit in Copenhagen
“The Obama administration environmental concerns are not shared by many Americans. According to a recent poll, only 57% of the respondents believe that the global warming is a solid, scientifically established, fact (last April, there were 71% of those). Only 1% of Americans considered climate change as a major problem for the country. The recent revelations that some environmental scientists deliberately exaggerated the threats of global warming have obviously damaged the public trust in climate change science…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2646

latest publications from 29 November - 5 December, 2009

2009-11-30
Yuri BARBASHOV (Ukraine)
A contract is a contract, but the gas war must be on time
“…Despite the recent highlight declaration by Barack Obama about the new political course and “reset” in US-Russia relations, the US administration will continue to hamper Russia’s relations with Europe relation as long as there is an option for it. And first of all it will use the Ukrainian case. It means that the gas wars will continue until Russia diversifies the routes of its gas supplies to Europe and shifts at least part of them from the zone of political influence of the US…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2613

2009-12-03
Igor TOMBERG
Contracts are re-written, but problems stay
“Ukraine’s gas-transportation system is, under the law, state property, with Kiev interpreting sovereignty over the gas pipes as denying GAZPROM any access to these; sovereignty that Ukrainian politicians see as some “sacred cow”. It is without any doubt that Russia’s involvement in updating Ukraine’s gas-transportation system as set down in the two countries’ agreements will spark off a major conflict in relations between Kiev and Moscow following Ukraine’s presidential election in January next year…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2616

latest publications from 10 - 17 November, 209

2009-10-14
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
In Praise of All Things Albanian
“The most alarming circumstance is that the Albanian Prime Minister’s statements, atop of reflecting his individual views, replicate the Albanian nationalist agenda in its late XIX century form…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2526

2009-10-14
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Al Qaeda’s New Project of Jehad
“That Al Qaeda still invokes attention of the globe in its pronouncements of Jehad is corroborated with its call for a new front of Jehad against China. Abu Yahya al-Libi, a Libyan national and a top ranking leader of the radical organization, in Arabic broadcast on 8 October 2009 called for Jehad against China’s “oppression and injustice.”…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2530