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Commentary on Debtate over NATO Membership for Ukraine – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Commentary on Debtate over NATO Membership for Ukraine – SPIEGEL ONLINE. Just to be sure there is no misunderstanding: Vladimir Putin bears primarily responsibility for the new Cold War between the West and Russia. These days, you have to make that clear before criticizing Western policies so as not to be shoved into the pro-Putin camp. When NATO […]
Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III
Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III. The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, tanks, guns and bombs, the first front is being fought with oil and shale gas. The U.S. and European sanctions against Russia will become more severe and crippling […]
Syria Goes Dark |
Syria Goes Dark |. Syria Then and Now “Arab Spring” situations have an inexorable tendency to go pear-shaped (Tunisia, the first country to experience one is the lone exception, but even there the “old guard” is reportedly making a comeback, so the whole thing was essentially for nothing in the end). In Egypt, the revolution went […]
Nobel Prize Winning Economists, Federal Reserve Chair and Other Top Experts: War Is BAD for the Economy Washington’s Blog
Nobel Prize Winning Economists, Federal Reserve Chair and Other Top Experts: War Is BAD for the Economy Washington’s Blog. Debunking the Stubborn Myth that War Is Good for the Economy About.com notes: One of the more enduring myths in Western society is that wars are somehow good for the economy. It is vital for policy-makers, economists […]
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To “Deter Russian Aggression” | Zero Hedge
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To “Deter Russian Aggression” | Zero Hedge. The ink on Barack Obama’s Chuck Hagel termination letter hasn’t dried yet but already the US president’s new, and seemingly far more hawkish advisors, are having their warmongering presence felt. Case in point: the Eastern European theater of (Cold) war, […]
Latest ISIS attack on Kobanê implicates Turkey once more | ROAR Magazine
Latest ISIS attack on Kobanê implicates Turkey once more | ROAR Magazine. This weekend ISIS attacked Kobanê from Turkish soil. While Turkish complicity in the attack is hard to prove, the events raises some important questions. In the early hours of Saturday, November 29, on the 75th day of the resistance of Kobanê, the militants […]
Close Encounter Between NATO F-16 And Russian MiG-31 Caught On Tape | Zero Hedge
Close Encounter Between NATO F-16 And Russian MiG-31 Caught On Tape | Zero Hedge. Once upon a time, the only place where a western fighter jet could come within meters of a Russian MiG was on Top Gun. However, according to a video released earlier today by the Norwegian Armed Forces, that is no longer the […]
Saudi Arabia Declares Oil War on US Fracking, hits Railroads, Tank-Car Makers, Canada, Russia; Sinks Venezuela | Wolf Street
Saudi Arabia Declares Oil War on US Fracking, hits Railroads, Tank-Car Makers, Canada, Russia; Sinks Venezuela | Wolf Street. When OPEC announced on Thanksgiving Day that it would maintain oil production at 30 million barrels per day, chaos broke out in the oil market, and the price of oil around the globe spiraled into a […]
U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies | Reuters
U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions onRussia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The United States and the 28-nation European Union […]
‘Extremism’: Perception vs reality? – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English
‘Extremism’: Perception vs reality? – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq is raising fears of radicalisation across Europe. The perception is of battle-hardened fighters returning from the frontline, full of anger and resentment, prepared to carry on the fight at home. […]
Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize – Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize – Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Despite an interest in geopolitics, I haven’t really written anything on the concerning and worsening tension between the government of the United States and the government of Russia. I intentionally wrote government twice in order […]
Russia’s Weapon of Choice: Information Warfare – The Epoch Times
Russia’s Weapon of Choice: Information Warfare – The Epoch Times. WASHINGTON—With its annexation of Crimea, aggression in the eastern Ukraine, and military and economic threats to NATO nations, the Kremlin has resumed a new kind of Cold War. Regardless of what Vladimir Putin may say, his motives are not benign. The West has reacted with […]
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For more than five years, former U.S. soldier Rodney Watson has lived as a prisoner, confined to a church that serves a poor neighborhood here. Wanted on charges of desertion in the United States and marked […]
Hardline Australia, confused Scandinavia and tense Russia: the global immigration picture | World news | The Guardian
Hardline Australia, confused Scandinavia and tense Russia: the global immigration picture | World news | The Guardian. Few issues excite politicians’ and voters’ passions as much as immigration. For decades now, the world has been on the move: last year, according to the United Nations Population Fund, the number of people living outside their country of […]
Resource Insights: Turnabout: OPEC shows U.S. oil producers who’s boss
Resource Insights: Turnabout: OPEC shows U.S. oil producers who’s boss. To paraphrase Mark Twain: Rumors of OPEC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Breathless coverage of the rise in U.S. oil production in the last few years has led some to declare that OPEC’s power in the oil market is now becoming irrelevant as America supposedly […]
