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Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams By Eric Walberg

26-Jan-10

For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat. As Switzerland bans minarets and France moves to outlaw the niqab, the popular Islamist government in Istanbul moves in the opposite direction — supporting the freedom to wear headscarfs, boldly criticising Israel and building bridges with Syria. This is nothing less than a fundamental realignment of Turkish politics towards Turkey’s natural allies — the Arabs … and the Russians.

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The Eurasian Pipeline Calculus By F. William Engdahl

19-Jun-09

Integral as the de facto motion of various pipeline projects now underway or in discussion across Eurasia hold the potential to integrate the economic space of Eurasia in a way that poses a fundamental challenge to Washington’s projection of Full Spectrum Dominance over the greatest land mass on earth.

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War, Oil and Gas Pipelines: Turkey is Washington’s Geopolitical Pivot By F. William Engdahl

15-Apr-09

For Washington Turkey today has become a geopolitical “pivot state” which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines.

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Andrei KONUROV: NATO uses Afghanistan to turn into a global organization

11-Apr-09

Although the participants of the G20 summit managed to avoid debates, the agreement they had achieved appears to be very unreliable and as the crisis will go deeper, no signs of cooperation will remain. And the crisis will surely go stronger since all the measures the allies had agreed on, are actually in no way adequate to the real state of affairs.

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The Geopolitical Great Game: Turkey and Russia Moving Closer By F. William Engdahl

27-Feb-09

Despite the problems of the ruble and the weak oil price in recent months for the Russian economy, the Russian Government is pursuing a very active foreign policy strategy.

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Eric Walberg: Russian-Western relations: Courting the bear

18-Nov-08

If Obama wants to make any progress in the empire’s affairs abroad, be it in Afghanistan, Europe, Iraq, Iran, he will have to wrestle the Cold Warrior Washington establishment into submission and make peace with Russia. This will have the truly wonderful side-effect of strengthening Medvedev’s hand in his own struggle with statist authoritarians.

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Middle East Report Online – Another Struggle: Sexual Identity Politics in Unsettled Turkey by Kerem Öktem

14-Sep-08

Middle East Report Online
Kerem Öktem
September 2008
(Kerem Öktem is a fellow at the European Studies Centre of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.)
For background on the court case against the AKP, see Hilal Elver, ‘Lawfare and Wearfare in Turkey,’ Middle East Report Online (April 2008).
For background on Hrant Dink, see Ay?e Kad?o?lu, ‘The Pigeon [...]

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US invade Pakistan — but no complaints from the ‘international community’

04-Sep-08

US threats to Russia by sending warships to the Black Sea are essentially nothing more than publicity stunts to back up its propaganda war in the Western media and Russia knows it. Once more, the US ruling elite have proved themselves be incompetent empire builders, doing great damage to their interests and especially to their so-called allies.

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