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EuCom: Control of Europe
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28 April 2013Was Serbia attacked in 1999? To answer that question, Milica-Hänsel Radojkovic draws on period documents (including Willy Wimmer’s letter to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder). He highlights the unacceptability of the Rambouillet proposals, designed to justify a war that had already started.
Moscow (Russia) | 4 January 2013Wednesday, December 5, 2012, the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha advocated granting Albanian citizenship to all Albanians, wherever they reside. This statement was made during a visit of the city of Vlora where the independence of the Albanian state was declared, only 100 years ago. At the time Albania had just liberated itself from Ottoman rule.
30 November 2012In Kosovo, in 1999, NATO orchestrated KLA terrorism to cause a cycle of attacks and repression which was used to justify military intervention under the pretext of protecting the civilian population. Thirteen years down the line, Kosovo has unilaterally declared its independence and inflicts the most outrageous discrimination on its Serb population ... under the auspices of NATO.
Moscow (Russia) | 22 October 2012The carefully engineered and fueled debt crisis, coupled to Brussels’ regionalization policies, not only causes nation-statehoods in Europe to crumble but, from a wider perspective, undermines national sovereignty and statehood as general principles. Authors Andrei Ganzha and Sergei Klimovsky of the Strategic Culture Foundation scrutinize below the erosion of the Spanish state.
Rome (Italy) | 3 February 2012Continuing with his analysis of the US military "strategic realignment," this time Manlio Dinucci zooms in on Europe where, he says, only permanently-based troops will see their numbers dwindle, while making room for forces temporarily stationed between deployments in Eastern theaters of operation. As for Italy, he concluded, it will remain the exclusive domain of the Pentagon, the second real estate owner in the country, just behind the Vatican.
22 January 2012The Pentagon is sending more military aid to Eastern Europe, despite the US claim of reducing its resources in the continent to increase more military presence in Asia-Pacific region.
United States is sending as much as USD 100 million to countries like Hungary, Poland, Romania (photo) and Lithuania in military aid this year, which is 33 percent more than last year.
The US, who has been relying heavily on Eastern European NATO allies in its war in Afghanistan, is essentially bribing (...)
20 November 2011A veritable re-engineering of the entire planet has been taking place in front of our eyes for many decades now. However, since it is gradual, most people do not notice or understand what is happening.
Just like the proverbial frog that if thrown into boiling water painfully jumps out and survives, but will be cooked and die if thrown into lukewarm water where the heat rises one degree every 5 minutes…
What goes under the name of “New World Order”, “Globalization” or (my favourite) “World (...)
London (United Kingdom) | 19 October 2010With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a Statement on the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
There are four things to say upfront.
First, this is not simply a cost-saving exercise to get to grips with the biggest budget deficit in post-war history it is about taking the right decisions to protect our national security in the years ahead.
But the two are not separate.
Our National Security depends on our economic strength and vice versa.
As our national security is a (...)
Brussels (Belgium) | 23 July 2010Far from being the effect of the ‘invisible hand of the market’, the crisis of the euro is the product of a strategy carefully designed by Christina Rohmer and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. It is a matter of saving the American economy by forcing the European capitals to take refuge behind the US, and ultimately placing the Euro Zone economies under US control via the IMF and the European Union. Jean-Claude Paye analyses the first stage of the process underway.
London (United Kingdom) | 2 July 2010The notion of Russia offering freedom and security to Europe will appear odd to most Europeans and laughable to Americans. Nevertheless, there are influential Europeans who recognize Europe’s big problem and would like a solution. Europe’s big problem is that its interests have been subordinated to America’s ruling class by politicians such as Anthony Blair, the most obvious among them, who is being well paid for his subversive activities. Christopher King argues that Russia under the leadership of President Dmitriy Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has enormous potential for setting a course toward a positive future with Europe.
Tbilisi (Georgia) | 31 May 2010In Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, recent developments have upset the scaffolding set up by the U.S. through its colour revolutions to gain control over former USSR states. It is now Washington’s staunchest ally Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, propelled into power by the 2003 "revolution of the roses", who is rocking the boat through his recent "real politik" rapprochement with Iran, causing a further shift in the configuration of alliances in the region.
Brussels (Belgium) | 6 May 2010Mr. President, thank you for that welcome. It was a delight to have you in Washington and at the White House. And it’s a great honor — and I might add, a privilege — to be able to address such an esteemed body. I served in a parliament that only had 535 members total. This is even a greater honor.
When President Reagan — I remember President Reagan’s speech here in 1985, and to quote an Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, speaking of his Ireland in a poem called “Easter Sunday, 1916” he said, (...)
3 April 2010On 31 March 2010, without prior notice, the ten member States of the Western European Union (WEU) announced the dissolution of the structure. All the administrative organs will be shut down by the end of June 2010 at the latest. This decision was precipitated by the 13 March announcement of the United Kingdom’s imminent withdrawal from the Brussels Treaty (1948).
Noting that the Treaty of Lisbon incorporates a mutual defense clause, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, (...)
Brussels (Belgium) | 31 March 2010Statement of the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the Western European Union (WEU) on behalf of the High Contracting Parties to the Modified Brussels Treaty – Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom
The Western European Union has made an important contribution to peace and stability in Europe and to the development of the European security and defence architecture, promoting consultations and cooperation in this (...)
Tectonic Shift in Heartland Power: Part 2
High-stakes Eurasian Chess Game: Russia’s New Geopolitical Energy Calculusby
F. William Engdahl
Frankfurt (Germany) | 30 March 2010The passing of the "orange revolution" in the Ukraine has provided Russia with manifold strategic advantanges, plus the latitude to play the energy card as a diplomatic and political lever, seriously upsetting the U.S. apple cart. The ripple effects of Russia’s stronger hand are posing a grave challenge to Washington’s global influence and assumed sole hegemony. In this second part of his article, Engdhal dissects the far reaching implications of this crucial shift.
Tectonic Shift in Heartland Power: Part 1
Ukraine Geopolitics and the US-NATO Military Agendaby
F. William Engdahl
Frankfurt (Germany) | 24 March 2010The Ukrainian "orange revolution" lived through one presidential term. Like the rest of the coloured revolutions, it basically amounted to a coup d’état orchestrated by Washington through the manipulation of public opinion. As usual, it was the economic results of the team in power that sparked widespread disenchantment. While promising western prosperity, the government’s only goal was Ukraine’s accession to NATO. It’s defeat - and Viktor Yanukovich’s victory - deprives Washington of an indispensable piece to achieve the encirclement of Russia.
Chicago (USA) | 17 March 2010Less than two years since its military aggression against South Ossetia, Georgia was thrown into panic overnight as a fake report of a Russian attack was shown on Imedi TV. President Saakashvili called the incident "unpleasant but useful", alleging that such reports could prevent similar real-life occurrences! Ahead of national elections in May and imminent discussions on the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, feigning a permanent threat from Russia might be Saakashvili’s last argument for staying in power, but one which could also easily backfire.
6 March 2010Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel waging a new type of conquest war? The question arises from the declarations made by several members of her government coalition.
It is widely known that Germany has exploited the rules of the European Union to its own advantage, in order to increase its exports within the Euro zone to the detriment of its smaller partners, chiefly Greece and Portugal. This aggressive attitude, compounded by administrative hardships, have already driven Greece to (...)
Munich (Germanay) | 6 February 2010Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Excellencies,
Speaking today at the 46th Munich Conference on Security Policy is for me a matter of emotional value at least for two reasons. First, this is the tenth time I have the honour to be invited to the Conference and address the audience.
Second, although I have not yet decided in what form to claim Veteran benefits, I have already been rewarded by the possibility to cast a retrospective glance at how the political climate change has been (...)
3 February 2010Through a column in The Times, Sir Malcolm Rifkin has called for a new "entente cordiale" with France within the NATO structure.
As former British Minister of Defence and of Foreign Affairs, he considers that only a Franco-British military pact would make it possible to harmonize expensive military equipment. This would result in significant savings that would enable the United Kingdom to continue to rank as a great power.
Historically, Franco-British alliances have always existed (...)
Paris (France) | 29 January 2010SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Mr. Charillon. And it is a great pleasure to be here at this historic setting, and I appreciate the opportunity to discuss a matter of great consequence to the United States, France, and every country on this continent and far beyond the borders: the future of European security.
Now, this is not only here at L’Ecole Militaire an architectural and historical treasure, one that when I was much younger I would walk by and looked at as I wandered the (...)
13 January 2010In 2010 the US military plans to expand its stockpiles of weapons in Israel under a recent bilateral agreement, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News.
The US military aid package for Israel already amounts to some 2.5 billion dollars annually. The US weaponry and ammunition to which Israel will have free access in case of need will now attain an additional value of 800 million dollars.
The US have four arsenals in Israel, to which must be added their air (...)
London (United Kingdom) | 15 November 2009The myth that Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments no longer needs debunking. In his latest work, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed provides a concise summary of the deep politics of the ’War on Terror’ spanning several decades and continents. Articulated around an intricate network of chilling complicity between Western intelligence agencies and Islamist extremism, the shadowy ’War on Terror’ is designed to disrupt and destabilize regions of geostrategic value for penetration and control by Western powers.
Reframing the History of World War II
The Anglo-US Drive into Eurasia and the Demonization of Russiaby
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Montreal (Canada) | 2 October 2009Appeasement was a policy crafted to allow Berlin to militarize and to make a German-Soviet border, which would be the prerequisite to an anticipated German-Soviet war that would neutralize the two strongest land powers in Eurasia. While Europe and Asia were ravaged by war the US inversely grew economically. The UK and US also deliberately delayed their invasion of Europe, calculating that it would weaken the USSR who did most of the fighting in the Eastern Front. The abiding Anglo-American strategic mentality of weakening Eurasia explains the Russian mind frame for protecting themselves through protecting their European core and aiming to achieve Eurasian unity.
1 August 2009On 2 October 2009, Ireland will vote in its second referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty), which is set to change the workings of the European Union (EU). There is an idea abroad, especially in North America, that the European Union represents a progressive alternative to U.S.-sponsored neoliberalism. This argument can be found in numerous books and has even been echoed in numerous left-leaning journals. However, according to this expert in international relations and diplomacy, nothing could be further from the truth and he tells us why.
31 July 2009A senior American Defense Department (Pentagon) official said Thursday that his country is considering options for European missile defense other than current plans for a system based in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow told lawmakers in the House of Representatives at a hearing on relations with Russia that the Obama administration is looking at various configurations as part of its review of missile defense plans.
"The site in Poland and (...)
30 July 2009The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia kicked off their first joint maritime operation in the Caspian Sea off the coasts of the northern port city of Bandar Anzali with the slogan of "clean and secure Caspian Sea depends on regional interaction."
Managing Director of Ports and Navigation Organization, Ali Taher Abadi referring to the importance of the operation in preserving the sea environment, adding it is holding within the framework of international conventions.
He said the operation (...)
26 July 2009Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that Russia’s economy is "withering," and suggested the trend will force the country to make accommodations to the West on a wide range of national-security issues, including loosening its grip on former Soviet republics and shrinking its vast nuclear arsenal.
Mr. Biden said he believes Russia’s economic problems are part of a series of developments that have contributed to a significant rethinking by Moscow of its international self-interest. (...)
Barack Obama’s speech to the New Economic School in Moscow, as released by the White House
by
Barack Obama
Moscow (Russia) | 7 July 2009Moscow, July 7, 2009
Good morning. It is an honor for me to join you at the New Economic School. Michelle and I are so pleased to be in Moscow, and as someone who was born in Hawaii, I’m glad to be here in July instead of January.
I know that NES is a young school, but I speak to you today with deep respect for Russia’s timeless heritage. Russian writers have helped us understand the complexity of the human experience, and recognize eternal truths. Your painters, composers, and dancers have (...)
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