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POLITICAL MADNESS: LINDSEY GRAHAM AND THE WAR AGAINST PAKISTAN

Senator Lindsey Graham the main adherent of the eternal war of America against the world calls up for the conflict with Pakistan now. During his recent interview to the Fox News he claimed the following: «Pakistani participation in the hostile activities against the USA and our ally Afghanistan has to be stopped...»

AMERICAN NMD AND THE «GREATER ROMANIA» PROJECT

Oddities of the officially presented meaning of the U.S. NMD system may be discussed for a long time. So, the intercepting missiles, launched from Romania are to bring the hypothetical Iranian rockets down in over Turkey. In Turkey itself it is planned to station merely AWACS radar. According to the logic of the missile strikes, the latter one should be attack in the first place, because after that the attack at Europe and the USA can be waged with a much greater success. If we draw all the bases and radar of American NMD system as the points of a circle, it is the Russian Federation rather than Iran that happens to be in the center of it.

PEACE PRIZE OR PANDORA PRIZE?

On the 7^th of October Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo. It’s difficult to say whether Wael Ghonim will be awarded — he has tough rivals. Yet, if we start giving this award away to people, who provoked a chain reaction of coups, civil conflicts, full-scale civil wars and mass bombings, then the name «Pandora Prize» fits the Nobel Peace Prize more.

AXIOMS OF GEOPOLITICAL EXPERIENCE. Part I. Russia, Turkey and the geopolitical retrospection

On the 2^nd of August, 1914 Enver Pasha, military officer and actual ruler of Turkey offered Russia to align a military bloc against Germany and Austria-Hungary, once Russia guaranteed eternal Turkish possession of the Straits. Yet, it was exactly the thing that St. Petersburg politicians were unwilling to do, giving Turkey a final push towards the embrace of the Central states. Not multiplying the number of its allies was of vital importance for Russia at the moment and cutting off the Straits Turkey, thus, interrupted the most important channel of Russian communications with its Western allies.

WHAT DO OBAMA AND SARKOZY HAVE IN COMMON?

Who of these Presidents is better off three months before the election year ends? Is it Sarkozy — not particularly popular, but featuring a reputation of a steady leader, navigating the country through the crisis? Or is it Obama, whose lifestyle and behavior cause no contempt among his compatriots, but whose authority in the matters of American economics and foreign policy is growing all the more dubious?

NEW JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: Portrait features

New Japanese government distinguished itself with new political scandals even before it started working properly. New Japanese Minister of Economics Yoshio Hachiro stayed at his post for merely 9 days. Having a peculiar sense of humor, he dubbed the radioactively polluted Fukushima prefectures the «death cities» and while meeting with the journalists after attending Fukushima-1, he greeted them, saying «I’m going to infect you with radiation now!» and pretending to embracing one of the journalists.

WILL ALGERIA BE THE NEXT TARGET? Interests of the USA, France and Al-Qaida have tied into a single knot

Algerian militants are tightly bound to the Special Services of certain Gulf States, pursuing their own goals. Time of peace for Algerian is at an end. Talkative Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has indirectly confirmed it, announcing his intention to replace the Algerian gas with Libyan one soon enough. Mind that Algeria as a supplier has never left a handle for reproaches.

WAR AT THE HOLY LAND MAY BE THE END OF THE ARAB SPRING. PART II

The age when Israel featured the unreserved U.S. support is a thing of past now. Today, when the world is reformatted according to the scenarios of Soros and Brzezinski, the global layout of powers is utterly different. The USA tries to stake at the new revolutionary movements — in the Islamic world first of all. According to the architects of the new world order, regimes that came to power in the second half of the 20^th century and on the surge of secular pan-Arabism are to be brought down everywhere.

LESSONS OF SIRTE AND BANI WALID. Are London and France going to occupy Libya?

Answering the Channel 2 question, whether new authorities will get stuck in an unforgivable conflict with the Warfalla tribe because of the Sirte and Bani Walid assault, TNC executive bureau leader Mahmoud Jibril remained calm. «Yes, this is serious and they will try to revenge but French and Englishmen are much stronger and we’ll ask them to stay for as long as necessary». Frankly said, no unequivocal interpretations are possible. Leader of rebels perceives Libyan future to be the stand against his own citizens and his only hope is the former colonial powers, which are «much stronger» than his own compatriots.

EXPROPRIATION OF «SAFETY CUSHIONS». Norwegian and Libyan ways

Theoretically Libya has $100 billion, but in fact new leadership of the Libyan central bank had to sell 29 tons of gold — which makes up 20% of an entire golden reserve — in order to supply people with salaries. At that, the matter of lifting off the suspending status of merely 15 billion out of 80 depends upon the negotiations between the TNC and the contact group — they are to discuss the fair distribution of concessions in favor of the companies from «liberating countries».

CASPIAN THEATER OF THE ENERGETIC WAR

On the 12^th of September the EU Council sitting took place, dedicated to the subjects of energetic security in the Euro-Union. The concluding document was the mandate, according to which the Euro-Union is going to negotiate with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan regarding the gas supplies to Europe through the Caspian Sea. The EU, embodied by the Euro Commission will treat with Ashkhabad and Baku about the construction of a pipeline, which will make up a part of the South Corridor main, which Europe is intended to use to decrease its dependence upon Russian gas.

WAR AT THE HOLY LAND MAY BE THE END OF THE ARAB SPRING. Part I

Arab Spring brought the demand of denouncing the Israeli-Egyptian agreement of 1979 to the surface. The overwhelming majority of Egyptian is abruptly anti-Israel-minded and now this is expressed in specific actions. Egyptians are not blocking the Iranian supplies coming to the Gaza Strip through the tunnel as fiercely as before.

13 KEYS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Recent polls indicate that if the U.S. presidential elections took place today, Obama would have lost to both of his Republican rivals: Texas governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Mormon governor Mitt Romney. However, American professor Alan Lichtman believes that Obama has the re-election in the bag. He worked up a method he called «13 keys to the White House».

BRITISH AMBITIONS: FROM ILLUSIONS TO REALITY?

What did Englishmen themselves gain from this six-year-long Cold War with its scandals, boycotts and — to top it all — the hacker attack at the site of Russian Embassy in London? During the age of Blair and Miliband Britain attempted to assume the role of a global arbiter, dealing in the estimates, statuses and meanings. Yet, the global economic crisis has drawn a line under these aspirations.

LIBYA: THE WINNERS AND THE LOSERS. How much will Europe pay for Sarkozy’s mistake?

Mayhaps, the Mediterranean Union will be created one day but not on the ideological basis that the visionary from the Champs Elysee believed them to be. There are grounds to believe that it won’t be a French-led union of Europeanized nations, but rather a sort of contemporary Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf with Al Jazeera as the sole source of information. «Frankostan Emirate» will hardly play a key role in this community.

WILL TURKEY FOUND AN «ISLAMIC NATO» AFTER THE ARAB SPRING?

Only Turkey or Saudi Arabia can host the emerging «Islamic democracies» under their auspice. Yet, the Saudi political system is way too archaic, and even given one’s sincere wish it cannot pass for «democracy». Besides, Saudi monarchy, albeit disposing huge financial resources, is hardly a mighty military force. It may have enough resources for suppressing the rebellion in a small island state of Bahrain, but no more than that. On the other hand, strength of the Turkish NATO corps is second only to the U.S. one, making the country much better fitting candidate, when it comes to the «security» issues.

INDIA: THE RUPTURE LINES

Religious and ethnic separatism in India threatens not just its unity but the global stability in general. Consequences of a political breakup of a country with more than a one-billion-strong population, disposing the nuclear weapons, cannot be accurately predicted. Yet, not taking such opportunity into consideration means comforting oneself, while lying at the awakened volcano.

TURKISH MARCH SOUNDS ALL THE LOUDER. Is Ankara threatening Cyprus with war?

Turkish stirring up at the Middle East, its attempt to scrape up the political fortune at the settlement of Palestinian conflict seems sufficient for solving the foreign-policy goals, which Recep Erdoğan set after winning the elections. Either appetite comes with eating, or the bellicose descendants of Mehmed the Conqueror took an offence for their maneuvers and demarches going unnoticed by the Euro-Union and the USA — be as it may, Turks have started an unprecedented sabre-rattling campaign.

TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Ten years ago the most terrible act of terror in the human history was committed. Three digits — 9/11 — are familiar to any man on a planet today. The wealthiest, mightiest and most invulnerable country was attacked by a bunch of lunatics, whom no one treated seriously before. On the 9^th of September, 2911 the world changed beyond recognition. The last ten years have passed under the sign of this event that changed the global geopolitical configuration and caused two wars. Little-known terrorist organization declared a war civilized world, having launched the processes that are under way even today. Still, no one has managed to guess all the consequences of these events.

THE SHOW’S NOT OVER UNTIL THE GOP LADY SINGS! «Pre-election America-2012» cycle

The U.S. presidential election campaign is under way. There’s much less intrigue in it than during the last one in 2008. And it’s not even because the Russian campaign also started. It’s all about the fact that one bidder for the Presidential post is already known — it is the incumbent President Barack Obama. So the most part of action is on at the side his rivals — the Republican Party also known as the Great Old Party (GOP).