The end of military neutrality on the Scandinavian peninsula is of major world political and historical significance in its own regard, but is even more important by what it illustrates. The NATO integration of Finland and Sweden is a final detail in a grand landscape whose composite view is of every European nation – large and small, west and east, continental and insular – incorporated into and subordinated to a globally expanding military bloc controlled by a power in another hemisphere. A project exceeding by orders of magnitude the efforts of Napoleon and Hitler to achieve a comparable objective in the last two centuries.
May 16, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, RIR The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is in for major changes, judging by the outcomes of the meeting of SCO foreign ministers in China’s capital ahead of the SCO summit scheduled to be held in Beijing on June 6-7.
by Kendal Nezan, President of the Institut kurde in Paris, LMD July 1998. "After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by turning more massively to drugs. " "...most European governments prefer to maintain an embarrassed silence on Ankara's dealings, in the same way that they have refrained from open criticism of the destruction of 3,428 Kurdish villages and the displacement of more than three million Kurds by their Turkish allies." "...Tom Sackville, minister of state at the British Home Office, who stated in the Sunday Times on 26 January 1997 that 80% of the heroin seized in Britain came from Turkey" "...Turkey is one of the countries most affected by money-laundering, which takes place particularly via the countries of the ex-Soviet Union, through the medium of casinos, the construction industry and tourism."
Gilbert Achcar Aug 16, 2012. Slutsats: "The situation in Libya—as in Tunisia and Egypt and all the other countries of the Middle East where the present revolutionary process is unfolding—is only at the beginning of a protracted and tumultuous course of development. This is the normal destiny of revolutionary upheavals. Western powers will have much difficulty controlling the process. They don’t have troops on the ground—let alone the fact that they failed anyway to control the situation in countries where their forces are deployed, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The process of peoples’ liberation and self-determination is convoluted, and can well go through ugly phases. But without this process and the readiness to pay the inherent cost, which may prove heavy indeed, the whole world would still live under absolutist regimes."
Sami Ramadani, senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University and a political refugee from Saddam's regime: "A shift in Turkey's policy is very significant for the region. Turkey over the last few years built friendly relations with Iran, with Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, and with the Syrian regime it developed very close links. They decided—Turkey decided to agree to installing the anti-ballistic missile umbrella in Turkey. Before that, they objected to such installation. This started souring relations with Iran. When it came to the demonstrations inside Syria, gradually Turkey took the side of those who want to militarize the conflict."
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: "... a deliberate strategy used by the U.S. and its allies, including NATO, for opening the door into the African continent by expanding the so-called “Global War on Terror.” This will give purpose to the U.S. objective of expanding its military presence in the African continent and it will also justify the creation of the Pentagon’s AFRICOM, which is meant to manage Africa by creating an African version of NATO as a means for establishing Washington’s control. In this regard, the U.S. and its allies have already put budgets aside to fight the very terrorist organizations that they have cooperated with, encouraged, nurtured, armed, and proliferated across the map of Africa from Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Mali to Mauritania, Niger, Algeria, and Nigeria."
Mary Einbinder, Dec 2011: "In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, a geographer and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, portrays the process of globalization through an economic perspective. Harvey describes the gradual shift throughout the global market towards economic and social policies that progressively gave an increased liberality and centrality to markets, market processes, and to the interests of capital. Harvey sets his analysis in the context of the rise of neoliberalism.
9.3..2012 Nemokrati: "Den svenska regeringen samarbetar direkt med Saudiarabiens regering och försvarsministerium MODA. Detta handlar... om en EU-anpassad utrikespolitik, som integrerar EU:s och NATO:s utvidgning och som Carl Bildt och Moderaterna ända sedan överenskommelsen om den fattades tillsammans med övriga europeiska högerpartier 1982 i EDU velat hålla hemlig för svenska befolkningen, media och väljarna. (Allt om den kan man läsa i Sven Ove Hanssons bok Till höger om neutraliteten. Bakom fasaden hos näringslivet och moderaterna. 1985. Stockholm: Tiden.) Carl Bildts farliga utrikespolitik som riskerar både världsfreden och Sveriges säkerhet har också inbegripit att initiera det “östliga partnerskapet”, ett “svenskt-polskt initiativ“, vilket fullbordar USA:s robotsköld runt det eurasiska fastlandet och fått Putin att gå i taket ...
8 december 2011. Carl Bildt på väg till NATO-konferens om Afghanistan och till följande konferens om nätfrihet. Idag 20 år sedan Belavezha-avtalen om Sovjetunionens upplösning. Assyrisk kommentar till bliogginlägget om oljan i Nineveslätten.
Tarkka luettelee joukon realitetteja, joiden hän toivoo suomalaisten Nato-jäsenyyden vastustajien ottavan huomioon. Hän ei kuitenkin selitä miksi hänen mainitsemansa realiteetit puoltavat Nato-jäsenyyttä. "Suomen Nato-jäsenyys ei muuttaisi mitään niistä p
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö
The proxy contest for influence between the European Union and Russia in a wide arc of states encompassing eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia is changing shape, says Katinka Barysch. "illary Clinton visited the south Caucasus on 4-5 July 2010 t
Paul Rogers, 9 September 2010 The annual report for 2010 of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a leading establishment think-tank, raises the prospect of a shift in western policy in Afghanistan.