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Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians
Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians. OTTAWA – A slickly produced video released on Sunday urged Muslims to launch indiscriminate attacks against Canadians, similar to those carried out in October in Ottawa and Montreal. The SITE Intelligence Group, an American based company that monitors trends within the global jihadist movement, said the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Tomgram: David Vine, A Permanent Infrastructure for Permanent War | TomDispatch
Tomgram: David Vine, A Permanent Infrastructure for Permanent War | TomDispatch. In a September address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obamaspoke forcefully about the “cycle of conflict” in the Middle East, about “violence within Muslim communities that has become the source of so much human misery.” The president was adamant: “It is time […]
Oil Tankers Stream Toward China as Price Drop Sparks Boom – Bloomberg
Oil Tankers Stream Toward China as Price Drop Sparks Boom – Bloomberg. Add oil shippers to the list of winners from this year’s collapse in crude. The price plunge has spurred China, the world’s second-biggest importer after the U.S., to accelerate bookings of oil cargoes. It will also shave almost $20 billion a year in […]
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Increased – Bloomberg
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Increased – Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia’s increase in crude prices for Asia signals the world’s biggest oil exporter is focusing its fight for market share on the U.S. While Saudi Arabian Oil Co. boosted differentials for supplies to Asia next month after cutting some November prices to the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge. Saudi Arabia is the middle of two ‘wars” – religious (from The Kingdom’s perspective, Iran is a large Persian country sitting at the easternmost edge of the Middle East, from where it projects power across the Arab world by manipulating and exploiting the region’s Shiite communities and other minorities) Via Stratfor, […]
War on Terror, War on Muslims? – Empire – Al Jazeera English
War on Terror, War on Muslims? – Empire – Al Jazeera English. US President Barack Obama is vowing to “degrade, and ultimately destroy” a terrorist group destabilising the Middle East he says could threaten Americans at home. Sound familiar? George W Bush made a similar vow, yet more than a decade after launching the so-called […]
What’s Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombings of Syria and of Southeastern Ukraine Washington’s Blog
What’s Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombings of Syria and of Southeastern Ukraine Washington’s Blog. Why is the Ukrainian Government, which the U.S. supports, bombing the pro-Russian residents who live in Ukraine’s own southeast? Why is the American Government, which aims to oust Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad, bombing his main enemy, ISIS? This report will document […]
Peak Oil Review – Oct 27
Peak Oil Review – Oct 27. New York futures continued to slide last week closing Friday at $81.01 for the fifth weekly loss. London oil traded quietly around $86 a barrel to finish out the week at $86.13, also down for the fifth consecutive week. There has been no change in the markets’ perception that there is […]
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America. A drastic shift in Canada’s Middle East policy has put the country “on the map” of international armed groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), analysts say, following two lethal attacks in the span of a week — one […]
Resource Insights: Oil decline: Price makes the story
Resource Insights: Oil decline: Price makes the story. When the world’s business editors sent their reporters canvassing to find out what is behind the recent plunge in the world oil price, they were doing what they do almost every day for every type of market: stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and real estate. In financial journalism […]
