Thursday, January 2. 2014
Twenty-five years after the collapse of Communism, the world is still divided in three subworlds at least. The West is facing a coalition of authoritarian nations led by Russia and China. And failed States proliferate in the former Third World.
Keywords:
antiwestern coalition ,
authoritarian empires ,
chaos ,
cold war ,
communism ,
failed states ,
nato ,
new war of the worlds ,
predatory networks ,
sco ,
third world ,
west
Former U.S. allies Turkey and Brazil back the Iran regime.
Keywords:
ahmadinejad ,
brazil ,
china ,
erdogan ,
iran ,
lula ,
nato ,
nuclear weapons ,
sanctions ,
turkey ,
un ,
usa
The heretofore unthinkable fact that America has embarked on a revolutionary course compells the Europeans to think twice about their own destiny.
The Russian-triggered gas crisis shatters European pipe dreams.
Keywords:
bulgaria ,
cold war ,
europe ,
france ,
gazprom ,
germany ,
italy ,
nato ,
natural gas ,
russia ,
slovakia ,
the baltics ,
ukraine
Tuesday, October 21. 2008
First post-meltdown election — in Canada — offers lessons for South of the Border.
Wednesday, September 24. 2008
Back in the 1950's, George F. Kennan wrote that USSR's neighbors could only chose to be its enemy or a satellite. The same is true today about Putin's Russia.
Keywords:
chechnya ,
george f. kennan ,
hizballah ,
israel ,
leon aron ,
middle east ,
nato ,
putin ,
russia ,
syria ,
usa
Wednesday, September 3. 2008
In 2007 drugs worth $4 billion represented half of Afghanistan’s GDP. Opium-funded Taliban are taking aim at European allies.
Wednesday, August 20. 2008
And Western "soft power" daydreams vanish.
Keywords:
europe ,
georgia ,
maccain ,
medvedev ,
nato ,
pipeline ,
putin ,
rice ,
russia ,
saakashvili ,
sarkozy ,
ukraine ,
usa
Aiding Afghanistan, doing ourselves a big favor. That's what the Paris Conference was about.
There is progress in Afghanistan, despite ongoing horrors, the drug economy and international apathy.
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