Moscows High Stakes Energy Geopolitics
On November 7 the first of two pipelines for Nord Stream, the huge Russian-German gas pipeline project, began delivery of gas. The event was no minor affair. German Chancellor Merkel and Russian...
View ArticleWhy Washington Wants ‘Finito’ with Putin
Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! or as they said in Egypt last spring, Kefaya--enough!. Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next...
View ArticleThe Geopolitical Stakes in Nigeria— Part I: The Curious Role of the IMF
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government...
View ArticleRising energy tensions in the Aegean—Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria
The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that...
View ArticleChina’s Land Bridge to Turkey creates new Eurasian Geopolitical Potentials
The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of...
View ArticleScary Facts about Birds and the Bees and Bayer AG
Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not an...
View ArticlePutin’s Geopolitical Chess Game with Washington in Syria and Eurasia
Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his...
View ArticleDagestan: ‘Syria comes to Russia…’
On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate...
View ArticleSyria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War
On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establish a...
View ArticleNo Wonder China is Nervous as Obama Pivots
To read the mainstream Western media, one would conclude that China has become an economic giant now intent on flexing its military muscle and making a massive arms buildup to do so. China’s designated...
View ArticleMali Islamists have destructive power of army: colonel
Islamists in northern Mali have the "destructive power" of an army, a top Malian colonel said Sunday, while showcasing weapons seized in Gao since French-led forces retook the city last month.
View ArticleMonopoly, the Board Game, Getting Past Go & the Next Best Thing
Looks like the game is about to reset
View ArticleThe Fracked-up USA Shale Gas Bubble
At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in USA unconventional gas from shale rock, when countries from China to Poland to France to the UK are...
View ArticleMonsanto Plays GMO Deception Game
On May 31 world media headlines read similar to this from Reuters: “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” A Monsanto interview with a leftist German paper created the impression around the...
View ArticleBarack Obama—the World’s Loneliest Leader
It’s highly likely that US President Barack Obama is today the world’s loneliest leader. He has clearly been double-crossed again and again by his most trusted friends and advisers, betrayed by...
View ArticleExclusive: Secret tapes undermine Hillary Clinton on Libyan war
Top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress so distrusted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintons 2011 march to war in Libya that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the...
View ArticleThe Message of Syriza’s Victory
The Beginning of the End for the Eurozone’s Long Nightmare?
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