1/04/2015
Foreign tech firms will either have to comply with intrusive surveillance requirements or risk being substituted by Chinese alternatives. By Ankit Panda China’s new draft anti-terror legislation has sent waves across the U.S. tech community. If there is a brewing tech war between U.S. and China over government surveillance backdoors and a preference for indigenous software, China’s new […]
5/03/2015
Eric Zuesse A much-ignored huge news report from Reuters on Friday, February 27th, was headlined “Chinese diplomat tells West to consider Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.” China’s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital of the EU) said that the “nature and root cause” of the Ukrainian conflict is “the West,” and that “The West should abandon […]
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Комментариев нет » 5/03/2015
Over the past decade, the United States turned from democracy, where the real power belongs to the people, an oligarchy, where the financial elite, facing both the right and left of the political spectrum, coordinated rule the country. The fact that Noam Chomsky (Noam Chomsky), considered the most outstanding intellectuals of America and the most […]
4/03/2015
By Doug Bandow Ukraine’s military has lost control of the Donetsk airport, and the rebels have launched another offensive. Fortune could yet smile upon Kiev, but as long as Russia is determined not to let the separatists fail, Ukraine’s efforts likely will be for naught. As I pointed out on Forbes.com, “Only a negotiated settlement, […]
1/12/2014
Relations between Washington and Moscow are strained for many reasons. And advice from the ivory tower, no matter how well intentioned, can sometimes make things even worse. This year, a working group of U.S. and Russian academics deliberated on how to make their two countries’ strategic forces more “compatible.” The lead authors, an American and […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 14/10/2014
A resurgent Russia and Chinese efforts to project power further afield draws US response and leads to rise in mid-air encounters A recent spate of dangerous mid-air encounters between American military aircraft and Chinese and Russian planes over the Pacific Ocean are the result of increasingly assertive strategies by both US adversaries to project power […]
Опубликовано в China, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 29/09/2014
AccordingKyodo news agency the government of Japan said that the decision to cancel an official visit of the President of Russia to Japan was made under pressure from Washington. Japan had to take into account the requirement of Obama not to carry out a bilateral meeting with the Russian leader and to show solidarity with […]
29/09/2014
Exclusive: By driving a wedge between President Obama and President Putin over Ukraine, America’s neocons and the mainstream media can hope for more “shock and awe” in the Mideast, but the U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, including $1 trillion more on nuclear weapons, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The costs of the mainstream U.S. media’s […]
12/03/2014
Stratfor By George Friedman The struggle for some of the most strategic territory in the world took an interesting twist this week. Last week we discussed what appeared to be a significant shift in German national strategy in which Berlin seemed to declare a new doctrine of increased assertiveness in the world — a shift that followed intense German interest […]
4/02/2014
December 17, 2013 The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org) Thucydides’ purpose in his great epic was to account for “what led to this great war falling upon the Hellenes.” He acknowledged that what we know as the Peloponnesian War was produced by many different disputes and depicted them masterfully, laying bare their specificities. But, in the opening pages, […]
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