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29.04.2015 INSIGHTS INTO TURKISH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
By John VanPool
Key Points:
- Prime Minister Erdogan claims Iran is attempting to divide and conquer the Middle East, but tempers his criticisms following a visit to Tehran...

22.04.2015 COULD CHRISTIANITY BE DRIVEN FROM MIDDLE EAST?
By Jane Corbin
Can Christianity survive, in the face of persecution and conflict, in the region of its birth? The BBC's Jane Corbin travelled across the Middle East - through Iraq and Syria - to investigate the plight of Christians, as hundreds of thousands flee Islamic militancy in the region.

15.04.2015 CAN WE MOVE TOWARDS A MULTIPOLAR WORLD DESPITE HEGEMONY IN THE MEDIA?
by Roberto Quaglia
States struggling against imperialism are probably not sufficiently aware of the importance of having non-aligned media. Yet, obviously, Russia Today, Press TV, Telesur and Al Mayadeen are better at defending freedom than other weapons. For these are indeed weapons we are talking about.

13.04.2015 HOW AMERICA BECAME AN OLIGARCHY
By Ellen Brown
According to a new study from Princeton University, American democracy no longer exists. Using data from over 1,800 policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page concluded that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of – or even against – the will of the majority of voters. America’s political system has transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where power is wielded by wealthy elites.

07.04.2015 GERMAN INTRANSIGENCE RAISES SPECTRE FOR ‘GREXIT’
Nile Bowie
Greece’s newly elected government, led by the leftist Syriza coalition that swept into power in January on an anti-austerity platform, finds itself in a highly unenviable position. Athens is burdened by colossal debt, imminent liquidity problems and a looming banking collapse. What is at stake for Greece now is its very ability to survive economically within the euro-zone.

01.04.2015 AMERICAN INFORMATION WEAPON USED AGAINST EUROPEAN POLITICIANS
by Georgy Voskresensky
Anonymous first appeared in 2003 on Internet image boards as a group of hackers espousing the freedom of speech and operating as an «anarchist global digital brain». It is an instrument or a weapon designed to be used in information warfare. It has an advantage - in many cases it is extremely hard to define who exactly used it.

31.03.2015 IT INDEPENDENCE IS NATIONAL SECURITY
Author: Ulson Gunnar
The NSA’s “Equation Group” is apparently behind the infection with malware of hard drive firmware on computers used by nations considered “enemies” by the United State. The installation of the malware is believed to have required access to trade secrets of IT manufacturers as well as physical access to the soon-to-be infected computers. Popular Science in their article “The World’s Most Sophisticated Malware Ever Infects Hard Drive Firmware“ suggests that the NSA intercepted computers in transit through global logistical chains.

31.03.2015 EUROPE ALSO PIVOTS – TO CHINA
By M. K. Bhadrakumar
The decision by Britain to seek admission to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank [AIIB] as a founding member apparently took Washington by surprise. The State Department spokesperson admitted that there was “virtually no consultation with the US” and that it was “a sovereign decision made by the United Kingdom.”

23.03.2015 WASHINGTON’S WAR ON RUSSIA
by Mike Whitney
“In order to survive and preserve its leading role on the international stage, the US desperately needs to plunge Eurasia into chaos, (and) to cut economic ties between Europe and Asia-Pacific Region … Russia is the only (country) within this potential zone of instability that is capable of resistance. It is the only state that is ready to confront the Americans. Undermining Russia’s political will for resistance… is a vitally important task for America.”

16.03.2015 DOES RUSSIA POSE A NAVAL THREAT FOR THE WEST IN MEDITERRANEAN?
By Pavel Koshkin
Even though the Kremlin is taking steps to increase its naval influence in the Mediterranean, the West doesn’t see this stance as a threat or a return to a Cold War-style arms race.

09.03.2015 AMERICA'S 'WEAPONIZED' DIPLOMACY IN UKRAINE
James Carden
Thirty years ago, the historian and diplomat George F. Kennan published a seminal essay in Foreign Affairs titled “Morality and Foreign Policy” in which he decried the stubborn tendency of the stewards of American foreign policy to treat every problem of geopolitics that arises in the course of human events as soluble, and what’s more, soluble by the American government.

05.03.2015 THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
by Thierry Meyssan
For several months, Barack Obama has been trying to change US policy in the Middle East in order to eliminate the Islamic Emirate with the help of Syria. But he cannot do this, partly because he has been saying for years that President Assad must go, and secondly because his regional allies support the Islamic Emirate against Syria.

20.02.2015 BROKEN HEARTS CLUB: 6 ALLIES AMERICA NEEDS TO DIVORCE
The United States has spent decades collecting allies like many people accumulate Facebook “Friends.
”It’s hard to get out of a bad relationship. The good times may be over and the once vibrant connection may be dead, but people just can’t admit that it’s time to say goodbye.

10.02.2015 THE MESSAGE OF SYRIZA’S VICTORY
By Mark Weisbrot, CounterPunch, February 3, 2015
Everyone seems to agree that Syriza’s big victory in Greece is a milestone for Europe, which has been plagued by mass unemployment and a failure to really recover from the financial crisis and world recession of 2008-09. But what kind of a milestone will it be? We can get some ideas from focusing on a few key issues, especially economic policy, which remain surrounded by much confusion in the public debate.

09.02.2015 IRAN AND SOUTH CAUCASUS: THE IMPLICATIONS OF “FREEZING”
Sevak Sarukhanyan
Although Iran and the six powers were unable to reach an agreement on the nuclear issue in 2014, the negotiations will continue in 2015 and there is a theoretical chance that if not full, then at least some partial settlement will be reached in the relations between Tehran and Washington. The article presents the potential corollaries that such arrangement may bring for South Caucasus.