Global Research, December 04, 2011 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-the-launching-of-a-preemptive-nuclear-war-against-iran/28026 The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran has been on the active drawing board of the Pentagon since 2005. … [Read more...]
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The February Revolution of 2011: a Harbinger of Arab Spring
Steven Alan SAMSON In a column posted on the day of Ronald Reagan's centenary and Super Bowl Sunday, February 6, 2011, Barry Rubin delivered a punishing half-time assessment of the Obama Administration's Middle East policy. His chief point was simple: Do any of the chief actors in the region … [Read more...]
Latvian Geopolitical Situation in 1938-1940
Edgars ENGIZERS Geopolitical situation in Europe changed in 1938 with more and more aggressive and global German external policy. Of course it influenced geopolitics of Latvia. At the same time USSR begun to feel as a great power despite not being recognized as such by others. Countries including … [Read more...]
Câteva consideraţii istorice despre Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a Basarabiei – trecut, prezent şi perspective –
Stelian GOMBOŞ Teritoriul din stânga râului Prut, locuit de strămoşii românilor încă din secolele III-IV d.Hr., a depins din punct de vedere canonic-duhovnicesc, de Patriarhia Ecumenică de Constantinopol. În anul 1401, când Patriarhia Ecumenică l-a recunoscut pe Iosif I Muşat ca Mitropolit canonic … [Read more...]
The Spread of Orthodoxy in the Province of Courland in the 1880s as a Part of the Russian Empire’s Integration Politics
Kristīne ANTE After the 1795 the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was incorporated in the Russian Empire. Even after it became one of the Empire’s provinces, the local particularism tendencies which were based on the historical privileges and rights of the Baltic German nobility and Ev. Lutheran … [Read more...]
Tatars in Post-Socialist Lithuania
György LEDERER In the spring of 1997, the Tatars of Lithuania, Poland and Belarus will commemorate the 600th anniversary of their settlement in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Vytautas (Witold) The Great (1392-1430). Throughout the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries Nogai, Seldjuk and Kipchak refugees … [Read more...]
Propaganda and Culture in Latvia’s Soviet Socialist Republic, 1944-1964
Ginta BRUMANE-GROMULA The paper focuses on the Soviet Latvia’s history in the first 20 years after the soviet reoccupation in 1944, giving more attention to developed soviet propaganda campaigns and mechanisms in Soviet Latvia, especially describing the role of different branches of culture in the … [Read more...]
Hydro Politics of Delimited River of Astarachay and Its Effect on Iran and Azerbaijan Republic Revolution
Ezatollah EZATI, Hamid Reza Paknezhad MOTAKI Lack of sweet water in the world and diffusion of ethereal falls in the surface of earth and phenomenon of lack of water in some geography region, growth and increasing of population particularly in urban regions and need to produce food rather than … [Read more...]
Establishment of Towns in Livonia: Conception and Significance
Raksts PILSETAS „Lai miers dvēselē laikos un mūžīgi ar visiem kristīgiem ļaudīm [...], kuri šo rakstu lasīs! Lai top zināms tagadējām un nākamajām paaudzēm, ka pilsoņu tiesības [...] arī mēs [...] esam lēmuši stingri ievērot. Jo vēlamies [...] vienas tiesības ir kā svešzemniekiem, tā … [Read more...]
Rolului parteneriatului public-privat în protejarea infrastructurilor critice
Elena COANDĂ Infrastructurile critice au reprezentat dintotdeauna sectorul cel mai sensibil, cel mai vulnerabil al oricărui sistem şi al oricărui proces. Sensibilitatea decurge din rolul lor deosebit în structura, stabilitatea şi funcţionarea unui sistem, oricărui proces. Vulnerabilitatea se … [Read more...]