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Is Saudi Arabia Waging Economic Warfare?
Is Saudi Arabia Waging Economic Warfare?. The G20 is a conference of the world’s top 20 economies as measured by Gross Domestic Product. Some observers have slammed it as an unelected and arbitrary body that is doing some of the work the United Nations was intended to do– only in a much less egalitarian way. […]
Report Finds Gulf States Unstable Despite Resource Wealth
Report Finds Gulf States Unstable Despite Resource Wealth. Sectarian and ethnic tension, religious violence, and terrorism threats appear to be rising trends in the Gulf region according to a new study on the state of security in the Gulf by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The 200-plus page report released last week was prepared by veteran […]
Islamic State Expanding into North Africa – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Islamic State Expanding into North Africa – SPIEGEL ONLINE. The caliphate has a beach. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea around 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Crete in Darna. The eastern Libya city has a population of around 80,000, a beautiful old town and an 18th century mosque, from which the black flag […]
Are Europe and the World Slipping Back Into a 2nd Cold War? – The Epoch Times
Are Europe and the World Slipping Back Into a 2nd Cold War? – The Epoch Times. Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a breakdown in the dialogue between major powers is of enormous concern. The world is on the brink of a new Cold War, some are even saying that […]
Ukraine Admits Its Gold Is Gone: “There Is Almost No Gold Left In The Central Bank Vault” | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Admits Its Gold Is Gone: “There Is Almost No Gold Left In The Central Bank Vault” | Zero Hedge. Back in March, at a time when the IMF reported that Ukraine’s official gold holdings as of the end of February, so just as the State Department-facilitated coup against former president Victor Yanukovich was concluding, […]
Russia expels Polish diplomats as row deepens – Europe – Al Jazeera English
Russia expels Polish diplomats as row deepens – Europe – Al Jazeera English. Russia has expelled a number of Polish diplomats accusing them of activities “incompatible with their status” in response to expulsions of Russian diplomats by Warsaw, the foreign ministry has said. “The Polish authorities indeed took such an unfriendly and absolutely groundless step,” […]
Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters
Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters. (Reuters) – China and Australia on Monday sealed a landmark free trade agreement more than a decade in the making, significantly expanding ties between the world’s second largest economy and one of Washington’s closest allies in Asia. The deal, which Australia called the best […]
Russia fears ethnic cleansing in Ukraine amid rise of neo-Nazism – Putin — RT News
Russia fears ethnic cleansing in Ukraine amid rise of neo-Nazism – Putin — RT News. As Kiev continues to amass its forces in eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire and use radical nationalist groups as armed battalions, Moscow is concerned about possible ethnic cleansing there, Russian President Vladimir Putin told ARD in an interview. Speaking with […]
Interview with Henry Kissinger on State of Global Politics – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Interview with Henry Kissinger on State of Global Politics – SPIEGEL ONLINE. Henry Kissinger seems more youthful than his 91 years. He is focused and affable, but also guarded, ready at any time to defend himself or brusquely deflect overly critical questions. That, of course, should come as no surprise. While his intellect is widely […]
Ukraine Bank Runs Begin As Poroshenko Plans To Sever Socio-Economic Ties With Separatist-Held Regions | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Bank Runs Begin As Poroshenko Plans To Sever Socio-Economic Ties With Separatist-Held Regions | Zero Hedge. In what the pro-Russian separatists call “an act of genocide,” Ukraine’s President Poroshenko signed a decree Friday that will explicitly withdraw state support for the regions within a month. While appearing to implicitly recognize the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk […]
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs. In his classic The Anarchical Society, the scholar Hedley Bull argued that there was a perennial tension in the world between forces of order and forces of disorder, with the details of the balance between them defining each era’s particular character. Sources […]
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat. The “pivot to Asia,” also known as the “rebalance,” is the most important geopolitical shift in U.S. strategy since the declaration of the “long war” (against terrorism) after September 11, 2001. Yet try as it might, the U.S. seems permanently bogged down in the Middle East. […]
The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic – FPIF
The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic – FPIF. One hundred and sixty-eight years ago this past July, two British warships—HMS Erebus andHMS Terror—sailed north into Baffin Bay, bound on a mission to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It would be the last that the 19th-century world would see […]
Shock At ISIS Beheadings, Silence At Saudi Arabia’s: Why? | Zero Hedge
Shock At ISIS Beheadings, Silence At Saudi Arabia’s: Why? | Zero Hedge. In the past 3 months there has been much discussion regarding the gruesome and barbaric beheadings by ISIS of western hostages. Yet surprisingly, a similar and just as barbaric tradition has been taking place for ages just a few hundred miles east of […]
Target Liberty: Syria ‘Hero Boy’ Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda
Target Liberty: Syria ‘Hero Boy’ Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda. A dramatic video clip showing a young boy heroically rescuing a young girl amid a hail of gunfire in Syria has racked up millions of YouTube viewings and has been trending heavily on other social media platforms. The mainstream media and US government jumped on the […]
