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AL JAZEERA AS THE GREY EXCELLENCY OF THE NEW CALIPHATE

Retirement of Palestinian citizen Wadah Khanfar (Al Jazeera CEO) who has headed the TV-channel since 2003 is surely a significant event. Yet, one has to have a really superficial concept of Al Jazeera’s true nature for tying this resignation up with Wikileaks, publishing the classified cables of the U.S. Ambassador to Qatar — and the absolute majority of Russian (and the global) media swallowed that bait. It’d be even more naïve, believing Khanfar’s resignation to have something to do with his alleged ties with the CIA or with the mythical American requests to change the contents of a number of information reports, covering the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan. Way too many events, surrounding the TV-channel simply do not fit such statements...

LIBYA IS MERELY THE BEGINNING. Are we to face an age of colonial wars?

Wikileaks has declassified one more American diplomatic dispatch — according to it, relations between Libya and the USA have been clouded by «Libyan nationalism in regard of resources, its policy directed towards the increase of Libyan state control and its share of hydrocarbon production incomes». Dispatch also reported that the USA has to point out the «obvious flaws» of this approach to Libya, which seemingly has been done.

DOLLARS VS RUSSIA. Part II

During the last 15–20 years non-governmental organizations grew quite popular. They are considered to be the mouthpieces of public opinion, promoting the development of civil society. In fact, however, major part of them has turned into the extension of the state structures. If we have a look at the addresses and report contents of their spokesmen, we’ll get an impression that they work straight for the U.S. State Department. It turns out that they are not much of a democracy or civil institution promotion factor, but rather the disrupter of political situation.

DOLLARS VS RUSSIA. Part I

In this case the word «non-governmental» ought to be put quote marks, as long as they exist exactly thanks to the state money. They bring the ideas of the U.S. government in life, under the cover of the state itself. Receiver is an NGO, and such is donor, yet, the origin of the money is the federal budget of the United States of America.

BATTLE FOR THE EAST. Part III. Internet-revolution, waged from abroad

We’ve seen that the revolutionary propaganda was largely waged through the social networks in the Internet. Since 2008 and throughout the first mass strike organized in Egypt, Facebook and blogs have been widely used to instigate the protest sentiments, inform about the meeting spots of demonstrators and broadcast the news from the site of action. Then an idea, how to overcome their compatriots’ fear to act, occurred to activists: it was necessary to collect a million of Egyptian signatures for the petition for democratic reforms. Signatures were collected at the web-site with excessive security measures and located in the USA, where the petitioners had to leave their personal data, including the passport number, telephone and e-mail. Generally speaking, this was an ideal way of creating a database. As Sherif Mansour from Freedom House put it later: «The idea was to show million citizens that they have risk-free way of interfering with the politics». On the 6^th of June, 2010 yet another event launched the enlivening of revolutionary activity in the Internet. Blogger Khaled Sayid used Internet from a café in Alexandria to post a video, exposing corruption. Police arrested and tortured him.

BATTLE FOR TRIPOLI: THE NATO HAS MADE ITS MIND FOR THE «POINTED» GROUND OPERATION?

No one has ever been going to hide the fact that it is rather the Alliance than the rebels, who wage the war. Rebels report that the attack at Tripoli was carried out in close coordination with the NATO forces. Of course, they specified neither the exact NATO units engaged, nor the degree of the «coordination». Even the most frivolous interpretation of the UN Security Council sanction won’t allow the opportunity to start a ground operation. The latter one — its pointed version — has most likely taken place.

BATTLE FOR THE EAST. Part II. Is Egyptian April 6 Movement an Arabian Otpor?

So what’s the connection between progressive bloggers and radical Islamic brotherhood, professing jihad? Communities (the Belgrade-like revolutionary cells), where the...non-violent revolutionary actions were taught, have been spreading among the Muslim Brothers since the beginning of Egyptian revolution and holding the first flash-mobs, which seemed to be chaotic at first.So what’s the connection between progressive bloggers and radical Islamic brotherhood, professing jihad? Communities (the Belgrade-like revolutionary cells), where the...non-violent revolutionary actions were taught, have been spreading among the Muslim Brothers since the beginning of Egyptian revolution and holding the first flash-mobs, which seemed to be chaotic at first.

Death of Polish Robin Hood

On the 5^th of August, at about 5 PM police discovered the body of Andrzej Lepper, founder of the Samooborona RP party, at its head-quarters. All the circumstances pointed towards the suicide. That was the tragic end of the brightest political career of the post-war Poland — from an ordinary employee at the Plant Protection Stations in an outback Gorzeń to the post of Polish Deputy Prime Minister. Samooborona RP Party he created was the third largest political power in the country. At the presidential elections 2005 Andrzej Lepper gained 2 million votes.

BATTLE FOR THE EAST. Part I. The reverse of the Arab Spring

New economic troubles shimmered beyond the mirage of democracy in most part of the countries touched by the Arab Spring, while civil war have started in the others. Already certain common features have been revealed, allowing us to draw the parallels with the color revolutions in Eurasia.

GLOBAL MEDIA AND RUSSIA: BIAS OR THE INFORMATION WAR?

Daily news stream from all over the globe often absorbs all the time we assign for reading the newspapers, watching the news and looking through the reports of the main information agencies. At that, most part of our attention is paid to learning the information, as long as almost no time remains for its thorough analysis. That’s exactly what the plans and actions of the backstage public opinion conjurers, these invisible leaders of the information war reckon upon.

«KURDISH MATCHES» FOR IRAN. Have the USA found a way to leave troops in Iraq?

Having dealt the Iraqi Kurds (who were tightly connected to Tehran since the Iraqi-Iranian war), geopolitical players from Washington have turned their attention to their Iranian brothers and started to play the «Kurdish card» in Iran itself. We have to admit that the necessary premises have already emerged in the environment of Iranian Kurds. On a tight timetable «the implacable ones» have turned into an American geopolitical tool.

FRENCH TEXTBOOKS: Mutapa instead of Napoleon, Songhai instead of Louis XIV Due to advice from the U.S. Embassy their names disappear from the pages of school textbooks

The Sun King was driven to the end of a school program for the 5th grade — these days pupils make a lengthy stop to study African civilizations of Mutapa and Songhai, along with slavery in the Eastern colonies of France. In fact modern school programs dub Francis I, Henry I, Louis XIV and Napoleon I the «contextual elements of understanding» and, therefore, no longer credit them with central role in French textbooks of the general education programs.

WAR IN LIBYA: THE USA IS STRIKING CHINA WITH ITS FRENCH PROXY?

Mass-media promotion of French role in a Libyan conflict may happen to be a dangerous and faulty game. Experts believe that Sarkozy acted as an American puppet, which used France as their cat’s paw. Primary U.S. goal in support of the Libyan military conflict is their wish to hinder Chinese involvement into the economics of an African continent. Washington tries to prevent further Chinese development, using its military and strategic advantage and restraining Chinese access to the natural and energetic resources of the region: Beijing invested loads of money into energetic complex of Cyrenaica, reckoning to use these sources for their energetic needs.

SENSATIONAL REPORT OF FRENCH EXPERTS STUDYING LIBYA. Rebellion in Benghazi is the doing of mafia, controlling the traffic of «living stock» to Europe?

Libyan «revolution» that seemingly started within the framework of Arab Spring happened to be a quite different matter. Given all the outward simplicity, Libyan events are different from what happened in Tunisia and Egypt. All of that symbolically matches the context of unique Libyan flag. This is the only one-color flag in the world. It seems to be the utmost simple, which is why it’s the most extraordinary one as well. Situation in Libya is so complicated and unpredictable that a calm autumn doesn’t seem that obvious after a hot Libyan summer.

STRATEGY OF AMBASSADOR RIVKIN: THE USA WILL EXPLAING FRANCE HOW TO SOLVE THE NATIONAL ISSUE AND CARRY OUT YOUTH POLICY

In January of 2010 U.S. embassy in Paris wrote a dispatch, where Ambassador Charles Rivkin explained American efforts to engage with French minorities. Diplomatic cable consists of 10 items, reporting about crisis of American presence in France, importance of developing a peculiar strategy for this country and entering a positive dialogue along with the need to promote successful examples of launching aggressive youth programs.

FORT KNOX MYSTERIES. Does tungsten lie in the U.S. vaults instead of gold?

The fact the dollar has no backing is well-known. Now, though, it turns out that no knows how much gold is actually stored in the U.S. Bullion Deposit, how much of it is real and how many yellow-colored tungsten bullions spread all over the world since Clinton’s era, having burdened the Golden Deposits of the third countries with the content of standard weight but way lesser value.

«SEDUCTION» OF NATIONAL MINORITIES. American specialists on the «Orange revolutions» patronized the Afro-Arabian youth of France

One of the most unexpected consequences of the French riots in 2005 is the growing American interest for French young men of immigrant origin, who, however are generally set against the French government.

THE USA: WILL THE NATIONAL DEBT CONTINUE TO GROW?

An entire world was forced to approve the U.S. financial policy and the macro-economic madness seems to be «the soundest decision» — not because it’s good, but because the other options are even worse. It seems though that soon enough even that sort of therapy will become impossible — otherwise, Congress hearings regarding the increase of the national debt plank and maintenance of the debt «avalanche» are to be held each weekend.

IRAQ AFTER OCCUPATION. Confessional re-division

Military operation of the USA and its allies in Iraq hasn’t defined its goal as the establishment of democracy from the very beginning. During the years of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and «searches» of WMD Kurdish minority seized the power, Sunni are completely ousted from political life, while the hopes of Shiite majority for unitary democracy are totally ignored.

INFORMATION WARS AND COLOR REVOLUTIONS: IS THE USA CREATING NEW INTERNET-WEAPON?

All the forthcoming conflicts, public shocks and social changes will be forestalled by massive information preparations in the Internet. Those facts, which are «convenient» for American «democratic missioners» will be exaggerated and publicized using all the accessible and inaccessible means of information exchange, social networks and blogs. The «inconvenient» ones will be filtered and erased.