30.07.2015 CRISES AND DISCORD UNDERMINING EUROPEAN PROJECT
by Nat Parry
The near collapse of the Greek economy and the harsh austerity package forced on Athens by the European Union has led to increasing commentary in recent weeks on what the developments might mean for the “European project” – the one-time seemingly inevitable drive on the European continent for an “ever closer union” based on principles of economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among EU member states.
21.07.2015 VÁCLAV KLAUS: I THINK THAT MANY PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE STILL LIVE IN A NIRVANA OF SELF-SATISFACTION
An Interview with Václav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic, for Global Gold, February 2015
“The European integration process which started as an attempt to build a friendly and cooperating community of nations has been transformed to a totally different construct, to the European Union.
20.07.2015 DIFFICULT TALKS ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR ISSUE
Vladimir Evseev
Nuclear talks in Vienna have been extended amid disagreements over the lifting of an arms embargo on Iran, but western diplomats remained hopeful that an agreement could be reached relatively soon.
06.07.2015 IRAN: AN ATTEMPT TO BYPASS THE SANCTIONS
Sergey Sargsyan
In negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program that last over 10 years now, even preliminary concluded agreements made it possible to somewhat ease the sanctions against the country imposed by the USA, EU and UN. However, there is no mention about lifting those altogether. Even the partial relief is under a big question.
02.07.2015 EUROPE’S ATTACK ON GREEK DEMOCRACY
Joseph E. Stiglitz
NEW YORK – The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors. In fact, European leaders are finally beginning to reveal the true nature of the ongoing debt dispute, and the answer is not pleasant: it is about power and democracy much more than money and economics.
30.06.2015 CHINA’S “SILK ROAD” ENRICHES ITS INFLUENCE ON SOUTH AMERICA
by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez
During his tour through Brazil and Peru, China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang committed to the construction of the “Silk Road” of South America; a continental train that would connect the Atlantic to the Pacific. Within its objectives, this mega-project will seek to impulse the industrialization and with that, to promote economic development in the region.
26.06.2015 NEARING THE END OF THE ERDOĞAN SYSTEM
by Thierry Meyssan
In December 2014, Thierry Meyssan announced the fall of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while almost all other international commentators still persisted in believing that he would win the legislative elections. Mr. Meyssan returns here to examine the career of the Turkish President.
16.06.2015 S-300 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS: POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF BARTERING WITH IRAN
Vladimir Evseev
On April 13, 2015 President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order lifting the ban on transit through Russian territory and also the transfer to the Islamic Republic of Iran of air defense missile systems S-300. This makes it possible to implement the contract, signed in 2006−2007, on supplying Iran with five S-300 PMU-1 air defense systems.
09.06.2015 WORLD ORDER AND NATIONAL INTEREST
A Keynote Speech by Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, delivered at the 15th International Scientific Likhachev Conference “Contemporary Global Challenges and National Interests”, May 14, 2015.
04.06.2015 GERMANY FALLS OUT OF LOVE WITH AMERICA
By JOHN VINOCUR
Anti-Americanism offers cheap German nationalism with a good conscience. Angela Merkel should resist.
Anti-Americanism has become a fungible aspect of German politics. Blaming-the-Amis is now established as hard currency in matters of security, trade and in setting the tone of public discussion—either directly and gratingly, or managed more evasively but with real recognition of this harsh disaffection’s potential as a voter-getter.
01.06.2015 THE DOUBLE DEATH OF EUROPE
By Adrian Pabst
The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold War. Economic devastation in the south and war in the east cast a long shadow over the European Union and the wider Europe. Arguably the post-1945 promise of peace and prosperity no longer holds. The 28 EU member-states are home to high standards of living for many and the biggest single market with over 550 million consumers, but the 2008 crash exposed the sheer precariousness of the much-vaunted European social models and ways of life.
27.05.2015 THE YEAR 2015: FIRST THIRD REPORT
By Johan Galtung
The 19 January editorial “The Year 2015-What Are We in For?” identified four unfolding, dramatic processes: the West will continue fighting unsuccessfully and violently to keep their world grip; Eurasia will expand and consolidate successfully and nonviolently; Islam will expand and consolidate partly violently; Latin America and Africa will expand and consolidate, spearheaded by Brazil, South Africa, BRICS.
25.05.2015 THE FALL OF PALMYRA UPSETS GEOPOLITICAL BALANCE IN THE LEVANT
by Thierry Meyssan
The situation has considerably worsened in the Levant since the Islamic Emirate cut the ancient « Silk Road », the route which links Iran to the Mediterranean. There remain only two possible options : either via Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo, or else via Palmyra and Damascus. The first route has been disabled since the beginning of 2013, the second has just been cut. The fall of Palmyra will therefore have considerable consequences for the balance of the whole region.
21.05.2015 THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
By Tariq Ali
Three decades ago, with the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the South American dictatorships, many hoped that the much talked about ‘peace dividend’ promised by Bush senior and Thatcher would actually materialise. No such luck. Instead, we have experienced continuous wars, upheavals, intolerance and fundamentalisms of every sort – religious, ethnic and imperial. The exposure of the Western world’s surveillance networks has heightened the feeling that democratic institutions aren’t functioning as they should, that, like it or not, we are living in the twilight period of democracy itself.
04.05.2015 DESTROYING CHRISTIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES: DON'T ONLY CONDEMN ISIS, BUT ALSO THESE GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED GOV'T
By Haykaram Nahapetyan
A recent video on the destruction of ancient monuments by Islamic State in the Middle East has shocked the international community. The ISIS has sought to justify destruction of Assyrian ancient monuments in Northern Iraq by Islamic norms. The International community's reaction was predictable: the United Nations' cultural agency labeled those actions as a war crime, calling the world to "respond to this criminal chaos that destroy culture" and "put an end to this catastrophe".
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