Sacrificing her illegitimate children (Special report on the birth of ISIS)

After ‘proclaiming’ to kill her own baby (Al Qaeda) in his paternal home  (Afghanistan), US is back with so called fundamentalists ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. US nurtured the first baby (Al Qaeda) during the Cold War to counter USSR who had been honeymooning in Afghanistan for 10 years (Dec 1979 – Feb 1989).

This time, there is a strong blizzard forming in the Arctic Circle from East to West with Russia surfing solely on it victoriously this time. The ‘czar’ of Kremlin has left no stone unturned to veto all the Western moves that could undermine Asia’s authority over world affairs, or particularly, Russian authority over the international politics. As the game between the West and the ‘East’ (led solely by Russia) was going uneven, with Russia scoring all the points and the West succumbing with zilch.

• The West, or say, just US tried invading West Asia (Middle East) again to show off her defense skills and machines, to market their products to nations like India (huge importer of arms). But, Russia vetoed the move in the UN Security Council (Syrian talks). US failed the opportunity to rob West Asian wealth, to comfort her dwindling economy.
• Russia also created a mess during Ukraine’s admission to European Union and ended up giving anarchy to Ukraine by supporting the rebels, Crimean accession was a huge blow too. West merely saw the actions and replied back with childish economic sanctions which affect the European themselves.
• Allegedly, US even tried an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin in Ukraine via CIA but failed to do the same and ended up fuming Malaysian Airlines to flames.
• Unease of European nations for economic sanctions on Russia because of the huge investments by Russian oligarchs in their respective countries, further tensed US about the Western grouping’s future.
• Most importantly, the emergence of the BRICS Bank, a parallel institution to World Bank, undermining Western dominance over world economy, the growing closeness of Russia, India and China, or say the BRICS countries as a whole forced US to bite her nails.

All in all, US had been a loser till now by scoring, literally zero points against the game with Russia. All thanks to the ‘able’ leadership of Mr. Obama.

But then, the security experts of Mr Obama like James Clapper, reminded him of their illegitimate child of a subsidiary of Al Qaeda, living in Iraq, with the funding of CIA (Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi) ready to die for his mother (US). Mr Obama cheered in joy and ordered the multiplication of his funds and a special military training to combat Iraqi forces. By this, US would be able to exert pressure on the world to invade West Asia (failed invading Syria earlier) and would be able to control the region that has turned anti-US from the past few years. This way the region would stop porting to Russia for their needs and will again be neo-colonized.

Recent air strike combat operations are an eye wash, the beheading of US journalist James Foley is as true as the assassination of Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi and Osama Bin Laden (wondering what is Area 51). The motive is to invade Syria, via Iraq (that's why the last S in ISIS stands for liberation of Syria) and to control Shia population which is on the rise in West Asia. Forgive me for the words, but Sunnis have been secret weapons of CIA in their operations.

At last, the whole world knows that this wicked mother (US) will kill her child (ISIS) after his use and will look towards another child to sacrifice for her. The history is repeating itself, the Cold War has returned with an open conflict and this time, the West seems weak because of lack of unity and a severe leadership crisis.

Implications of US Government Shutdown

Democrats and Republicans are busy in a power tussle over the condition to drop/sustain President Obama’s healthcare reforms in the shape of Obamacare. The ultimate sufferers are not just the 800,000 employees out of the total 2.8 million government employees but the whole nation. Smithsonian Institutions (19 museums, 9 research centres, National Zoo and National Parks) are closed in the wake of this financial crisis engulfing, the otherwise prosperous nation. Fortunately the Federal Reserve, Department of Defense, Air traffic control, Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department are among the many exceptional sections that will see no disruptions.

According to the Goldman Sachs report, a three week shutdown could shave as much as 0.9% of the US GDP this year. Now, certainly this is a cause of concern which cannot be avoided irrespective of the struggle to show off the dominance by both the political parties in the Congress to each other.

October 17 – The deadline which if crossed, would lead to the financial risk of default in debt payment by the US Government. This implies that the upcoming days are not the good days for the world economy to enjoy sunshine on the beach of ‘return on investment’ ocean. The dark clouds of financial risks have engulfed the city of ‘World Economy’ from the western direction. Weathermen (world economists) are keeping a close look at the possible storm, forming in the western coast of the city. The storm may cool down a little if the ceiling limit of the debt by the US Government is raised before the deadline.

Investors around the globe, who were smiling incessantly over the last few months when the outgoing Fed Reserve Chairman- ‘Ben Bernanke’ assured higher rate of returns through their investment in the gilt-edged securities (US Treasury Bonds) are now on a verge of shedding tears as their investments will be at risk. These include countries like Japan, China and India who are possessing nearly $1.135 trillion, $1.277 trillion and $59.1 billion US Treasury bonds respectively.

On the diplomatic front too, United States is getting harmed, as in the wake of the shutdown, President Obama had to cancel two important Asian visits (Philippines and Malaysia), that gave a strong prospect to the Chinese President Xi Jinping to avail the benefits of the geopolitically important Southeast Asia Summit in Malaysia. Chinese President is the star of the summit now which Obama would have been, if there was no financial crisis at home.

There are some serious questions being raised in hush voices over the ability of United States to lead the world from front, if it cannot even pass a budget bill of their own country. There is not even a single year since 1997, in which there was a smooth passage of the budget. Who is at fault - the presidential style democratic system of the country or the dominance of political interests over national interests by the two political parties of the country?

Why is the UN Security Council divided over Syria?

Life of world peace, in the last few days is dwindling in the wake of Syria’s alleged chemical weapon attack killing more than 1,400 people (rebels), according to US reports. World’s policeman – United States along with his allies, mainly France & UK is trying to cure the ailing ‘peace process’, currently admitted in an Intensive care unit with its ECG graph showing little signs of relief. It is no rocket science to understand why the CIA has been consistently helping the rebel groups (militarily & economically) to dominate the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad as this policeman supports democracy (as proclaimed by it) & most importantly to pluck out the communist backed Russia and China’s rising power & support in the Middle East. US and friends (mainly UK & France) are backing rebels to maintain the support and domination of Western allies in the Middle Eastern region because of the power struggles going on in this region like in Egypt.

On the other hand, Russia, once a strong contender of being a ‘World Hegemon’ in the past few decades, is helping the Syrian regime (militarily & economically) to mark its presence and rise in the world’s political classes yet again. Russia is backed by China, another communist which has overthrown many challenges of democratic rule politically or militarily (not to forget the Tianamen Square incident of 1989). China, considered to be – Number 2 in the world in the context of military and economic power wants to attract the Middle Eastern countries towards the East side, particularly to the communist side. Both the Eastern superpowers, Russia and China are well versed with the fact that the current power struggles in the Middle East region is the best time to inject communism in these countries which are struggling hard against their rulers. Therefore by supporting the rulers, these two superpowers are white-washing the long seen dream of democracy by the people of Middle East.

The situation is somewhat like the “Cold War Era” of 1961 after the Cuban Missile crisis shocked the United States and marked the presence of another superpower that was if not equal, then at least not lower than US in any form. Syrian ruler Assad has nothing personal to do with the communist powers or Western powers nor these two communist powers and Western powers have any personal interest in the lives of Syria and its people, the Syrian crisis is just a medium for all these UN Security Council Member countries, divided in two groups to prove that who is the real hegemon in the world politics.

In the second week of September it was vague that US (and friends) are going to strike Syria, irrespective of the outcome of G-20 meetings in the St. Petersburg in Russia. Developing but ailing economies (from the current global slowdown) like India & Brazil opposed strike on Syria for economic reasons – currency volatility due to hike in crude oil prices. This gave an edge to Communist countries over Western powers to give up the idea of striking Syria. But Western team led by Barack Obama was adamant in their decision. On one side, Barack Obama was struggling hard to gather Congress’s support on the decision, then on the other side, David Cameron was seen having talks with Ed Miliband of Labour Party to gather support in British Parliament. Francois Hollande too was seen seeking support from other European allies over the decision.

In an ad hoc manner, UN Security Council meet was called by British PM David Cameron to talk on the resolution (forwarded by Britain) to attack Syria, well knowingly that Russia and China will veto against the resolution. Disappointed by the fall of its resolution, Western powers decided to go against the UN Security Council to bring ‘peace’ in the region by punishing Assad regime with a limited ‘air strike’ on the land of Syria. The feeling to strike Syria was so strong that Western powers didn’t even try to wait for the UN inspector’s report on the chemical weapon attack in the region. In this hurry, Russia too got in quick mode to announce that military strike against Syria may halt the peace process and Russia will respond too in order to bring peace in the region. Giving not much attention to the Russian claim, Western alliance was in the midst of persuading their people to go for a limited strike against Syria ( which according to surveys, people of these countries oppose) and come out as the ‘Messiahs of World Peace’, with the use of force.

But suddenly Russia came out with a universally acceptable plan to ask Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to the International community. In response to Russian proposal, US President Barack Obama came out in the public on 10^th September and declared that he will put the Congressional vote on hold if the middle way is accepted unconditionally by the Assad regime. Obama also clarified and tried to persuade its citizen in his old traditional way of diplomatically and emotionally attracting public support (seen in his Presidential campaigns) and justified his decision to attack Syria and promised his citizens that he won’t let any American boot to land in Syria and the situation will not be as worse as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several meetings were held between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland to find a mid way and then after a lot of negotiations, both the representatives agreed on 14^th September to ask Assad to submit a comprehensive list of its chemical weapons within a week to the International community and by the middle of 2014, the weapons will be destructed. Assad is also asked to allow UN Inspectors to verify the chemical weapons list by this November.

Is this the end of Syrian crisis? Will these two groups come face to face again? Is everything settled now? Or are we marching towards a third world war (not exaggerating), or atleast another Cold War

What’s cooking in The White House, Beijing & The Kremlin ?

By the grace of the almighty or by the grace of the Eastern powers, the NSA’s whistleblower Edward Snowden is still alive and very much safe in the Moscow. Although, it is the most widely discussed topic for the news aficionados these days, but the whistleblower himself is hiding from country to country just to ensure that his consistent extradition requests made by the United States cannot be executed by a country.

In a pre-planned move, he flew from the United States to the Hong Kong (on 20^th May), in which he proclaims to have ‘a strong tradition of free speech’ and made some serious allegations against the PRISM project (that costs about $20 million/year) of the National Security Agency of the US. The revelations moved like oxygen in the atmosphere of the intelligence agencies of various rival as well as adherent countries of the United States. Print as well as broadcasting media went berserk over the allegations made by the whistleblower on the United States as well as on the ‘General Communications Headquarters of Britain’. Accordingly, the PRISM project has produced over 77,000 reports and accounts for 14.3% of the normal intelligence reports (1/7^th of total intelligence reports). This project is also a major contributor to Mr. Obama’s daily briefing. Data from various tech giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype etc were taken by the NSA officials by intruding straight into their servers, without the consent from these tech companies for incurring the private as well as professional information of the residents as well as non residents of the United States (as per Snowden’s reports). Even the telecom operator of the US - ‘Verizon’ was intruded to obtain the voice calls of the suspects as well as of the innocent peoples, compromising the privacy of the individuals on the name of security.

Let’s not get into the debate of who’s right or who’s wrong, or if it is satisfactory to compromise privacy in the name of security. But let’s take a brief look at what Snowden revealed in the Hong Kong (SAR). His reports were not confined to the United States intrusion in citizen’s privacy, but he also accused the NSA for hacking up the systems of China and other enemy countries of the US, possibly Russia. This gave China an excuse to fire bullet on Snowden’s shoulders and to proclaim that although China is accused of mass hacking or cyber intrusions but he himself is a prey of mass cyber hacking. Probably, Chinese Government Officials were consistently in touch with Mr. Snowden in the Hong Kong (SAR) after his arrival, that’s why even Hong Kong’s treaty with the United States for enemy extradition didn't help the US to arrest it’s so called ‘traitor’ when he flew from the Hong Kong to the Moscow on the Q.T.

‘The Kremlin’ is still considered to have a ‘Cold War’ with ‘The White House’ which is testified after some recent cold shoulder decisions by Russian President Vladimir Putin such as political and military support to Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad over “US & Company’s” support to Syrian rebels. In the case of Edward Snowden also, an official of Russian Human Rights Commission Mikhail Fedotov reported that,’ the case of asylum for Mr. Edward Snowden can be considered by the President if Mr. Snowden files such a request but only on human rights ground’. This came after Snowden’s repeated attempts to pacify countries like Iceland and Ecuador to consider his asylum request with the help of Jullian Assange (WikiLeaks founder). Ecuador had a trade pact with US that were to be renewed by the US Senate in the coming few months, but yesterday Ecuador broke the trade pact with US to thwart ‘blackmail’ over Snowden’s asylum. Iceland’s businessman and a supporter of WikiLeaks has offered an airplane to bring Snowden from the Moscow, but no official confirmation from Govt. of Iceland has been arrived yet. Therefore, it is upon ‘The Kremlin’ to take a decision, whether it wants to make a stand against the US by offering asylum to the whistleblower, which is nothing new for it since the Cuban missile crisis in 1961 or to be like China which is not keen to take a straight step against his long time enemy/newly found friend (after Xi Jinping & Obama’s positive meeting in the US).

The ball is in Russian court as Snowden is currently in Moscow. The coming few days will be crucial for Snowden as well as for the Eastern powers to dilute US hegemony in the current political scenario worldwide.