Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933. Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933

The USA proudly displays its double standard policies to the whole world. This time the selective approach to international issues touches upon the recognition of small republics. Having recognized Kosovo, the US administration looks right through the similar right of the republic of South Ossetia. The US Department of State continues to emphasize the uniqueness of the “Kosovo phenomenon.”

With news that the Fed is cutting the Fed Funds rate by three-quarters of a percent, it’s official: Things are worse than they seem with the economy. The Fed, pushed by shattered worldwide investor psychology, is pulling out all stops to shore up confidence. Treasury chief Hank Paulson went so far as to call this latest cut a confidence builder.

During George W. Bush’s visit to Australia at the beginning of September where he commented upon the US Army success in Iraq with delight the human rights organization The American Civil Liberties Union published a volume of documents on about 10,000 pages about crimes committed by the American army against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan

The latest developments in the relations between the West and Russia resemble a fuss displayed by nervous shoppers lining up at a kerosene store. Some shoppers are on the verge of driving a salesclerk out of the store to lay their hands on the merchandise, others criticize him for setting the prices so high. The West is trying to impose the standards of “true” democracy on Moscow in order to get hold of the Russian oil. The ongoing scandal over Lugovoi, Berezovsky and Litvinenko is one of the symptoms of the conflict

In the twenty-first century, delay in solving accumulated problems carries devastating consequences for all nations. One sure lesson is that unilateral responses, consisting primarily of using force, result in stalemates and broken china everywhere. The current catalog of unresolved crises – Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Darfur, North Korea – is a testament to that. Genuine security will only be achieved through establishing normal relations and engaging in dialogue.