Syria and Iran: The Great Game

Regime change in Syria is a strategic prize that outstrips Libya – which is why Saudi Arabia and the west are playing their part This summer a senior Saudi official told John Hannah, Dick Cheney’s…

Obama’s Doctrine: Control over Oil “Sea Lanes” to China

The program manifesto US President Barack Obama voiced in the Australian parliament on November 17 and his statements on January 5 make it clear for everyone that Washington has outlined the new strategy of its foreign policy. “After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, the US is turning its attention to the vast potential of the Asia-Pacific”, the president said. The decision of the commander of the US military forces Obama to deploy 2,500 marines in the Northern Territories (an administrative district in Australia, which borders the Southern Asia) became the first concrete manifestation of the new course. The change of priorities predicts serious international shifts. It predicts the completion of the military operations against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which gave no result, a partial retreat from Iraq and reorientation on new external enemies both real and imaginary ones.

US – Assassination in Teheran and The Axis of Evil

Morning, January 11 2012, an unidentified motorcyclist attaches a sticky-bomb to the car of Iranian nuclear scientist Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, near Allameh Tabatani. As usual with assassinations and terrorism it was sudden and unexpected. According…

VIDEO: Georgia trying to Avoid US Sanctions against Iran

[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120114/02-09-00-ftp-wdb-tbilisi.flv] Georgia is one of the most pro-American countries on earth. Its capital boasts a street named after former president George Bush, and thousands of its soldiers fight alongside American forces in Afghanistan. But, uniquely…

VIDEO: Obama Requests Increase in Debt Ceiling

[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120114/05-22-00-sng-collin-washington.flv] Hampered by a sluggish economic recovery, lackluster jobs creation and a reelection campaign President Obama is doing the inevitable. He officially asked Congress for an additional 1.2 Trillion dollars– so the US can pay…