The paper has been around since 1997.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

But first, what is wrong with how the protest movement is being sold to the West. Gary Kasparov, the man they're making into the next Nelson Mandela, is what's wrong. You probably haven't read about this anywhere (unless you read the Russian blogger world), but Kasparov is so deep in bed with the vilest of America's neo-con goons, a VIP member of their PR-politics-lobbying network, that it almost seems like a bad setup. The strangest thing of all is how no one in the major Western media has touched on Kasparov's neo-con connections.

Gary Kasparov is a minor political figure at home, but he gets unusually high-profile access to every major media outlet in the West. The more far-right the media outlet, the more Kasparov-friendly it is. Case-in-point: The Wall Street Journal now identifies Kasparov as a "contributing editor" to that paper's opinion page, largely because he has been such a regular contributor. The Cheney/neo-con agenda, spelled out in the Project for a New American Century, calls for containing Russia and keeping it weak in order both to control the Caspian Sea resources and to prevent a potential rival from checking American power. That agenda exactly describes the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal. The Journal has been stridently anti-Putin, particularly since the arrest of former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- an arrest which was a major blow to American oil interests.

Far more disturbing than Kasparov's status as a "contributing editor" to the Wall Street Journal, even as the same paper writes up his role in the protest movement, are his ties to the far-right foreign policy machine. Specifically, Gary Kasparov is, or was, a member of the neo-con Center for Security Policy. The think-tank's mission statement declares that it is "committed to the time-tested philosophy of promoting international peace through American strength." And Kasparov is not just a casual member - he once served on the CSP's National Security Advisory Council, an inner-working group headed by ex-CIA goon James Woolsey. It's a group with extensive ties to the Pentagon. The Center for Security Policy's member list reads like a Who's Who of the neo-con elite: along with Woolsey, it boasts Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams and Frank Gaffney, and was highly influential not just in formulating President Bush's disastrous imperial strategy in his first term, but also in lobbying for the repeal of the ABM treaty, a move which was in many ways the start of the growing rift between Russia and America.

Founding Philosophy: The Russian National Bolshevist Party (NBP) is an organization of anti-globalists and Russian nationalists founded in 1993 by writer Eduard Limonov. The group has branches across Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union. The NBP opposes capitalism, globalization and the U.S., as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they accuse of attacking democracy in Russia and running a police state. The NBP is also linked to anti-Semitism. The group participates in frequent rallies and demonstrations against Putin, U.S. President George W. Bush and globalization.

The NBP will remain active in Russia and in the major cities of the former Soviet Union for the foreseeable future. The group will continue to protest Putin's program and attract those left behind in post-communist Russia. Some small-scale violence and hooliganism associated with the group is also likely to persist. However, their violent actions are not likely to proceed beyond isolated, minor incidents.

On Kasparov organized marches they no longer use a party flag, but a Russian Imperial flag: