Is Europe heading towards a revolution?

Spanish unemployment rate hit a record high. Youth unemployment has soared up to 55%. Strategist at investment bank Citigroup, Jose Luis Martinez said, “We haven't seen the bottom yet and employment will continue falling in the first quarter”.

Greece youth unemployment rate is the highest in Europe with 57.6 %. On the other hand, Italy’s youth unemployment rate is 37%. There were 23.7 % people unemployed who were under 25 years of age in the 27 European countries according to the EU's statistics body, Eurostat.

The situation in USA is not too good either. The youth unemployment stands at 16.2% in USA. It is at a record high since the World War II.

This is a recipe for disaster. The West is heading towards a catastrophe. It should ring alarm bells in all countries of the world because it is a security issue. The history of the West is full of bloodshed and wars. The West started the World War II to get rid of the Great Depression. What it will do to get rid of the Great Recession is a big question mark.

Pakistan puts another dent in America's Silk Road Strategy

Pakistan has put another dent in America's Silk Road Strategy by signing a deal with China to manage the strategic port of Gwader.This region holds more than half of world's oil reserves. This port is vital for trade with Central Asia.

Deep sea port of Gwader also controls Straits of Hormuz oil shipping lanes which is one of the most important sea lanes of the world. Pakistan also signed a deal with Iran to build a gas pipeline. This has also angered America. But Pakistan has refused to budge on this issue.

USA encircling China through Bangladesh

It is becoming evident that USA is trying hard to encircle China through Bangladesh to stop China’s possible entry into Bay of Bengal in case of a conflict with USA. USA is trying to keep pro-American government in Bangladesh with the help of India. Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal which is marred by controversies and allegations of wrongdoings, handed down harsh verdicts against the opponents of Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.

USA is trying to consolidate anti-China alliances in Asia and Pacific. It is encouraging the government of Sheikh Hasina to clamp down on pro-Islam and anti-American parties. These attempts by American puppets will be short lived like before.

The presiding judge of Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq resigned because he acted improperly. “Bangladeshi newspapers this week have printed transcripts of phone conversations and emails that purport to show the judge, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, giving details of a case currently before the tribunal to—and soliciting advice from—a Bangladeshi human-rights lawyer based in Brussels” according to The Wall Street Journal.

The whole region has woken up against the injustices and corruption encouraged by the USA to support its puppets. The days of these puppets are numbered.

Pakistan Reins the Silk Road Strategy

Regional powers like India and Pakistan are jockeying around to assert their position in the geopolitics of Asia. Consequently, USA’s role is becoming trivial in this region. Recent deadly clashes between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir can be the result of this maneuvering. Pakistan refused to cave into pressure by India and it taught a lesson to aggressive Indian forces by using lethal force.

Meanwhile, Indian authorities warned Kashmiris to prepare for nuclear war. Furthermore, Pakistani Defense Minister Syed Naveed Qamar said Pakistan does not care if relations with India worsened further and Pakistan is ready to face India in all circumstances. Before this Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar accused India of “war-mongering” in response to hostile statements by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Indian army chief.

Although the trade has resumed between India and Pakistan through the Chakan da Bagh point in Poonch district. This is certainly a sign that tensions are easing in Kashmir. But, it is important to remember that Kashmir is “the most dangerous place on earth” according to former US President, Bill Clinton.

On the other hand, USA once the master of the New World Order is being dragged around by a second rate power like India. Perhaps, it is humbling, humiliating and hemorrhaging the dwindling hegemony of USA, which wanted to rule the world uncontested, unhindered and unchallenged by any power in the world.

USA started looking around for the strategic partners to use them as crutches so that it can lean on them. The obvious choice was India. Americans tried to use the Silk Road Strategy as a tool to lure India. Unsurprisingly this strategy was announced in India instead of USA.

Outgoing US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said, “let’s work together to create a new Silk Road … That means building more rail lines, highways, energy infrastructure, like the proposed pipeline to run from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, through Pakistan into India” in Chennai, India on 20 July 2011.

The main aim of this strategy is to contain China and plunder mineral resources of Central Asia. Americans invited a senior delegation of Taliban to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan in 1997. Hillary Clinton was singing from same hymn sheet which was written long time ago.

Silk Road Strategy is a fancy name of the Great Game which was designed by colonial powers to divide and rule Asia in the early 1800’s. There are four major pillars of this strategy in this region. Pakistan-US Relations, economic, political and social strength of Pakistan, Pakistan-India relations and India-US relations. USA and India cannot implement Silk Road Strategy without a strong and stable Pakistan.

Pakistan-US relations are already strained because of American invasion of Afghanistan. America is already destabilizing Pakistan through its ill-thought policies in this region. Thus it leaves only two aspects to be scrutinized, i.e. Pakistan-India relations and India-US relations.

Recently, Pakistan and India were trying to normalize the relationships. It involved a tour of India by Pakistani cricket team after five years. Pakistan and India also agreed to implement a much liberalized visa policy.

Americans were too happy to see their dreams becoming a reality. The project of Silk Road Strategy was looking increasingly feasible like never before. There were jubilations in the corridors of power in the Pentagon.

However, these jubilations were short lived. The situation changed rapidly when Pakistan accused India of violating ceasefire agreement across Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir. Deadly clashes started across the LoC because India ordered building of new observation posts in Kashmir according to Indian newspapers.

Americans as usual don’t understand how things go around in this part of the world. Americans like to think that matters are controlled in Washington but now they realize that shots are called in Islamabad.

Pakistan did not cave into pressure by India. It did not allow breaches of ceasefire agreement by India. It also taught a lesson to aggressive Indian forces by using proportionate force. It prompted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to say that “there cannot be business as usual with Pakistan”.

Manmohan Singh also caved into Hindu extremists’ pressure by putting on hold the visa on arrival for Pakistanis over the age of 65. Nine Pakistani hockey players who were participating in Hockey India League left India due to the immense pressure of Hindu extremist party Shiv Sena.

Pakistani Defense Minister Syed Naveed Qamar said that Pakistan wanted to resolve matters with India amicably. Before this Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said India was “war-mongering” and it was “detrimental to the peace process between the two countries…It is deeply disturbing to hear statements which are upping the ante, where one politician is competing with the other to give a more hostile statement”.

All people who want to romanticize the relations between India and Pakistan through the American prism are disappointed to know that Islamabad is in the driving seat. Though, Indians are the ones who are taking silly decisions to expel Pakistani hockey players or to halt visa program. Pakistan separates India from Central Asia. The only way for India to go to Central Asia is through Pakistan.

On the other hand, Americans are also trying to put pressure on Pakistan to abandon gas pipeline deal with Iran. Hillary Clinton said during a congressional debate that “as we are ratcheting up pressure on Iran, it seems somewhat inexplicable that Pakistan would be trying to negotiate a pipeline.”

On the contrary Americans want to build pipelines as a part of the Silk Road Strategy. The success of this strategy partly depends on India-US relations. America wants to see India as a key player in this strategy. However, America is facing another conundrum over its Silk Road Strategy. It has tried to lure India to become an active instrument of America’s Silk Road Strategy by offering it pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, it seems that Indians are in a different mood.

Americans also wanted to increase trade between India and Central Asia. India cannot trade with Central Asia without going through Pakistan. Hillary Clinton said that she “was pleased to see Afghanistan and Pakistan commit to implement fully their transit trade agreement…we want to see trade begin to move across that border, and then we want to see that trade expanded into Central Asia and India – two-way trade, multiple paths for trade.”

Indians warned Americans over its stance against Iran. They also warned Americans about situation in the Middle East through Delhi Declaration at the end of Fourth BRICS Summit on 29 March 2012. China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa were participating in this summit along with India.

Americans conundrum is not just about the Silk Road strategy. It is facing a wider challenge to salvage its dwindling economic hegemony. It was quite disturbing and funny to see Secretary of State visiting the remote Cook Islands for diplomatic support. Hillary Clinton also went on to visit some little known African countries such as Benin and Malawi in the middle of 2012. 

Incoming Secretary of State, John Kerry will be facing a great challenge in 2013 to match the efforts of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in gathering diplomatic support for USA. The question is where he will go?

America’s Silk Road Conundrum

America is facing another conundrum over its Silk Road strategy. It has tried to lure India to become an active instrument of America’s Silk Road strategy. However, it seems that Indians are in a different mood.

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said, “Let’s work together to create a new Silk Road … That means building more rail lines, highways, energy infrastructure, like the proposed pipeline to run from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, through Pakistan into India” in Chennai, India on 20 July 2011.

Hillary Clinton was trying to have a charm offensive.  But the Indians had a different idea. Indians warned Americans that “the situation concerning Iran cannot be allowed to escalate into conflict” through Delhi Declaration at the end of Fourth BRICS Summit on 29 March 2012.

They further warned Americans along with China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa that “transformation taking place in the Middle East and North Africa should not be used as a pretext to delay resolution of lasting conflicts but rather it should serve as an incentive to settle them, in particular the Arab-Israeli conflict”. BRICS Summit could not have used threatening language against Americans without the consent of its Indian host.

Americans conundrum is not just about the Silk Road strategy. It is facing a wider challenge to salvage its dwindling economic hegemony. Its days are numbered. It increasingly seems that Americans belongs to the graveyard of the history.

USA: Elections a farce or a chance for the real change

American people will wake up on Wednesday morning with a hope that things will change in their country for good. Unfortunately their hopes will not be fulfilled because the American electoral system is designed to maintain the status quo.

There will be no major change in economic, foreign or social policies. It does not matter who wins the elections in USA. Both major parties in USA stand for status quo. These parties are not interested in the welfare of American people.

American people will be asking same questions about unemployment, healthcare or educational policies in four years time. The American establishment will continue to support the military industrial complex built to support big business.

These big businesses will continue to enjoy support from the American establishment which will continue to slaughter innocent civilians around the world to fool its own people. The only time American people will enjoy the real change when they will rise against their own establishment to reclaim their constitutional rights.

Anti-Islam film is an example of the cultural imperialism by the West

The Western countries are spreading xenophobia and Islamophobia under the veil of freedom of speech. The West wants to impose cultural imperialism all around the world.  The current anti-Islam film is an example of the Western cultural imperialism.

The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a resolution “to counter the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred” proposed by a group of African and Latin American governments. The resolution was passed to stop xenophobia and Islamophobia and to stop films promoting hatred.

The British historian, David Irving was jailed for three years for denying the Holocaust by a court in the Austrian capital. The concept of absolute freedom does not exist and it is not allowed in any country of the world because it can be used to spread xenophobia and Islamophobia. However, the West allows dissemination of hatred if it is directed towards non-Western people.

Greg Barns, national president of the Australian Lawyers Alliance says, “Commentators like Bolt and Mark Steyn, a Canadian commentator who has used freedom of speech arguments to attack elements of Islam over the years, love to dress up their political agenda with the claim that they are simply exercising freedom of speech” in his article titled “Even Bolt's freedom of speech isn't an absolute right”.

The fate of Western cultural imperialism is doomed. The people around the world know the real agenda of the West. The Western efforts to culturally rule the world will fail like colonialism.