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November 2011                    Columns, Interviews and Research Papers


   

 

The Mafia That Rules Russia: An Interview With Luke Harding

By J.R. Nyquist

[Listen to an audio podcast of Jeff's interview with Luke Harding]  

On Sunday [October 30] I spoke with Luke Harding, the Guardian (UK) Moscow bureau chief who was expelled from Russia on 5 February 2011. “For you Russia is closed,” he was told when returning to Moscow after a trip to Britain. His Russian visa was annulled and he was bounced out of the country, despite lobbying from friends and associates, despite having a home in Moscow (which the Russian secret police had previously broken into – in order to intimidate Harding’s family). The Kremlin has a special means of communicating with uncooperative journalists: you break into their home, you rearrange objects, you open the tenth floor window of a child’s room, and if all else fails you expel the unwanted critic from the country. 

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My Cup of  Tea

J.R. Nyquist

 

The Great Debate: Revisiting the Sino-Soviet Split and the Failure of the “China Card”

By Nevin Gussack

In 1960 the communist world was struck with a seemingly major setback in their monolithic unity in the form of the Sino-Soviet split. In the eyes of U.S. policymakers and intelligence officials, this event presented both a unique opportunity to further the dissension within the socialist community for some and great fear of a grand deception for others. The Central Intelligence Agency was the main battleground for the war over the validity of the Sino-Soviet Deception and the ultimate decision to forge relations with the People’s Republic of China as a means of containing and limiting the ambitions of the USSR. Meanwhile, the conservative and anti-communist movement in America was divided as to how to react and present the news of renewed relations with the People’s Republic of China to their supporters. Some decided to support the notion of a “China Card” directed against the Soviet Union as an exercise in Metternich style Realpolitik, while other anti-communists, loyal to Free China in Taiwan, felt that this was nothing but a grand deception whose ultimate aim was the crippling of the Free World and capitalism.

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  Suvorov Interview   Part 1

An Interview with Viktor Suvorov by Viktor Kalashnikov

Courtesy of ZAXID.NET http://zaxid.net/article/88370
Translated from the original Russian by Serge Kabud

Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet spy, is today a cult figure and author of documentaries and historical fiction as well as non-fiction. At the beginning of the 1990s his books caused almost a Copernican Revolution in the perception of the Second World War and Soviet foreign policy.

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Suvorov Interview   Part 2
An Interview with Viktor Suvorov by Viktor Kalashnikov

Courtesy of ZAXID.NET http://zaxid.net/article/88901
Translated from the originl Russian by Serge Kabud

Viktor Suvorov talks about his Website, books, and works in progress.

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  Economic Warfare Report

Podcast - Interview on Economic Warfare with Kevin Freeman, FDA

"Serious risks to the global economic system were exposed by the crisis of 2008, raising legitimate questions regarding the cause of the turmoil. An estimated $50 trillion of global wealth evaporated in the crisis with more than a quarter of that loss suffered by the United States and her citizens.

"A number of potential causative factors exist, including sub-prime real estate loans, a housing bubble, excessive leverage, and a failed regulatory system. Beyond these, however, the risks of financial terrorism and/or economic warfare also must be considered. The stakes are simply too high for these potential triggers to be ignored."

- Kevin D. Freeman, Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses Analysis of Twenty-First Century Risks in Light of the Recent market Collapse

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Podcast - Interview with Olavo de Olavo de Carvalho

Professor de Carvalho is the President of the Inter-American Institute. Please visit the Institute's Website (link below).

www.theinteramerican.org/about-us/fellows/133-olavo-de-carvalho.html

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Podcast - Jeff revisits interview with Venezuelan anti-Marxist patriot Alejandro Pena Esclusa who was jailed by Hugo Chavez and recently released. He talks about the advance of Communism in Latin America  

 Alejandro Pena Esclusa

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Totalitarianism
and the Empty Self

By J.R.Nyquist

In the concluding chapter of The Black Book of Communism  Stéphane Courtois asks, "Why did modern Communism, when it appeared in 1917, almost immediately turn into a system of bloody dictatorship and into a criminal regime?" Going through the details of Lenin's career, Courtois fails to notice the obvious. One may set aside Lenin's theories as so much erroneous rubbish. One may set aside every detail of his career. The cause of Communism's bloodthirsty history may be found in the grandiosity of Communism as an idea, and the grandiose self-conception of the Communist as an agent of that idea.  The successful strata of Communist revolutionaries suffer from an enormous, bloated egotism. One has merely to examine the psychology of a Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. Such are the special pampered children of history, magnificent in their own eyes, epic heroes, supreme and god-like agents of history's splendid drama. Here one finds no sense of self-limitation. There is only self-expansion. Unlike the well-adjusted human being, the aspiring Communist dictator is soaked in arrogance. From all of this flows the bloodthirstiness of the mass murderer. Identifying himself with the forces of history, the Communist leader puts himself in God's shoes.  Here is a narcissism so pathological, an emptiness so profound, that nothing may come of it except monstrous crime.

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Russia's Disruptive Role

By J.R. Nyquist

On Sunday I spoke with Polish journalist Tomasz Pompowski, who wanted to give me an update on events in Europe. The picture he painted was not entirely pleasant. Russia, he said, was promoting economic and political instability.   

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