Archive for July, 2008
Posted on July 27, 2008 - by Venik
Karl Marx and the White House
The redneck right in the US and their fearless leader John McCain are praising Dubya for lowering oil prices. Just look at the facts, they say, oil price dropped ten bucks and the gas price is a whole penny lower. We’ve been paying a lot of attention to the prices of crude and gasoline, but [...]
Posted on July 26, 2008 - by Venik
The Story of Cuba and Russian Bombers
The news of Russia’s plan to station its nuclear bombers in Cuba has aroused much interest in the US and even drew an official response from a high-ranking USAF general. The only problem with this story was that Russia never had any plans for a bomber base in Cuba. Izvestia – the Russian daily that [...]
Posted on July 22, 2008 - by Venik
Tadic Selling Out… Again
Serbia’s pro-NATO puppet government of Boris Tadic arrested Radovan Karadžić, the leader of Republika Srpska and a Bosnian Serb national hero who in the early 1990s led popular resistance to NATO-backed Muslim extremists in Yugoslavia. In 1992-1996 Karadžić led the heroic defense of Sarajevo against Muslim fundamentalists. The city’s Serbian defenders were finally forced to [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik
BBC World Service and Its Masters
If you are still having doubts that BBC World Service is working for the British Foreign Office, here’s something to consider. In the weeks leading to the UN Security Council vote on sanctions against Zimbabwe every daily broadcast of BBC World News opened with a lengthy and blatantly biased report on the situation in Zimbabwe. [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik
Russia Punching Above Its Weight
I was reading the latest Newsweek (July 28, 2008) and came across the “Poisonous Relations” piece by Andrew Wilson and Mark Leonard. These two clowns are senior members of the “European Council on Foreign Relations” (ECFR) – a “think-tank” and an online propaganda outlet set up by billionaire George Soros (the guy who bankrolled Georgia’s [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik
Extraterrestrial Logic
I just finished watching the UFO special with the four Bobs on Larry King Live. These guys crack me up. To summarize their position: here’s a video of something in the sky and nobody can tell me for sure what it is, so it must be a space ship sent to Earth by an extraterrestrial [...]
Posted on July 18, 2008 - by Venik
Chicken or the Egg?
The Asia Times daily never fails to impress me with the quality of their analysis of international relations. The Washington Post and The New York Times look like school newspapers in comparison. The recent piece by Ambassador Bhadrakumar – Russia’s energy drive leaves US reeling (Asia Times, July 19, 2008) – is one of the [...]
Posted on July 17, 2008 - by Venik
Who’s Guarding the Nukes?
“Wrong on Russia”, by Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at New York University (International Herald Tribune, July 1, 2008), is almost a balanced look at the current problems with Russo-American relations. Ten years of systematically ignoring Russia’s interests following the Soviet collapse have ruined America’s relations with the only country that can destroy it [...]
Posted on July 14, 2008 - by Venik
Practice What You Preach
For years there has been a continuous stream of criticism about Russia using its energy companies to advance the state’s political goals. Every time Gazprom tried to get Ukraine to pay a fair price for the gas, the US and the EU exploded with allegations of “energy blackmail”. How is it blackmail when all Russia [...]
Posted on July 12, 2008 - by Venik
Russia is Pushing Back
The unexpected turn of events during today’s UNSC vote on Zimbabwe stunned even the most seasoned UN diplomats. Senior British and US diplomats at the UN were talking about a “U-turn” in Russia’s position on the sanctions against Zimbabwe. They said that in the G-8 statement Russia was critical of Robert Mugabe and appeared to [...]
Posted on July 8, 2008 - by Venik
Get Tougher with Russia?
British Conservatives are pushing for a tougher line against Russia in view of latter’s growing espionage efforts and new territorial claims. The Conservatives are apparently concerned with Russia’s $189 billion rearmament program and Russia’s claims on the piece of the Arctic (“Britain must get tougher with Russia, warn Conservatives”, by James Kirkup and Duncan Gardham, [...]
