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30/07/10 | GORDON DUFF: Some real details about Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Karzai is a failure and was always intended to be, a shill for Bush, Israel and India and the CIA’s drug program. Destabilizing Pakistan is simply a side benefit. A royal family has to be established in Pakistan and a parallel system of governance quickly put in place that will give Pashtuns in both Afghanistan and Pakistan a reasonable chance for a decent life with traditional values but within a constitutional framework.

27/07/10 | FRACTALS AND J. P. MORGAN

A few days ago J. P. Morgan announced that it had completed purchasing global assets in the spheres of oil, metals (including Henry Bath company), coal, as well as European energy and gas assets having a non-American emission, from RBC Sempra Commodities. This deal was first announced on 16th February, 2010.

26/07/10 | UNITED NATIONS AGAINST DRUG MAFIA. Russian functionary is to head the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

We can hardly say that the Russian official was appointed to such high-ranked post by a chance. Mind that it is Russia that has recently become undoubted leader of the emerging world-wide coalition against the spread of drugs with its principle stronghold in Afghanistan. More than 90% of drugs that come to the world market are produced there.

25/07/10 | PLUGGING AFRICA’S LEAK

Foreign aid programs continue to pour funds into what seems like Africa’s bottomless bucket. Illicit financial flows out of Africa are twice the amount of foreign aid into the region.

22/07/10 | STANLEY McCHRYSTAL — NEW USA PRESIDENT?

"A bad workman quarrels with his tools" English proverb. Sir General Stanley McChrystal left his office to sir General David Petraeus. The specialist "to crush" and "to kill" has been replaced by the specialist "to get a deal" and "to make a price". McChrystal goes to Senate or even the Presidential election, leaving Petraeus with corruption and opium poppy and leaving American and other soldgiers with Taliban.

21/07/10 | ROSSTAT AND LEVADA ARE RUSSOPHOBIA’S BANE

Russia still has many serious problems and Russians frequently complain about the system’s corruption and social injustice. But the hard data from Levada Center (Russia’s Gallup) and Rosstat (state statistics service) does tend to invalidate around 90% of what is written about Russia in the Western press and political science.

20/07/10 | MIKE P. MCKEEVER: About narrowness of traditional economics, the world large problems, Russia and moral concerns

Money and resources are concentrated in too few hands, which leaves too many people desperately poor. This is an intolerable situation. Unless addressed, this situation will lead to more wars and misery.

19/07/10 | HUMANITARIAN POLICY OF YANUKOVYCH: will campaign promises be translated into actions?

In Sevastopol the Party of Region hung many posters stating that friendship between two fleets mean friendship between the states. However, there are many question regarding translating campaign promises of Yanukovych into actions. Russian language as the second official language — this point is articulated not so loudly. Maximum — as a regional language in places of "the compact settlement".

16/07/10 | BLOCKADE!

Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo, and the Turkish dockworkers union Liman-Is announced their members would refuse to service any Israeli shipping. In South Africa, Durban dockers had already boycotted a Zim Lines ship in response to the invasion of Gaza last year. On the 5th Anniversary of the United Palestinian Call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Israel faces the prospect of targetted industrial action to implement boycotts. How did it happen, what does it mean, and how can the solidarity movement respond to the new opening?

15/07/10 | FOOTBALL CUP AND EURASIAN POLITICS: Episode of flood

So the World Cup itself went to Spain which needs some positive things so much. The die is cast and there is no way back even if those Dutch guys are right about Mr. Referee Wabb’s miss-watches. But the geopolitical context of contemporary sports is much wider. And these battles never stop.