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Fight Over Arctic Region and the Russian Path Towards Peace
The US Council on Foreign Relations authoritatively projects that in the XXI century the rivalry over Arctic mineral riches will escalate into a new type of a Cold War, which promises to be a conflict profoundly different from the one that marked the XX century’s bipolarity epoch. Indeed, it is impossible to overlook the fact [...]
Continue reading...The Arab World: From Nationalism to Tribalism
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The “parade of autonomies” we are currently witnessing in the Arab world, primarily in Iraq and Libya, is an indicator of the crisis the region’s nation-states are undergoing. Unlike Europe, however, it is less a consequence of integrationist trends than an indicator of the Greater Middle East’s archaism, its return to tribalism. Farewell to the [...]
Continue reading...Mali Coup a New Step towards Global Resources Grab
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A coup erupted in Mali, a landlocked West African country, on March 22. The presidential palace, a number of the country’s state institutions, and the premises of the national broadcaster were seized by a mutinous group led by Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and at the moment, authority in Mali announcedly rests with an improvised “National [...]
Continue reading...Why Putin Is Driving Washington Nuts
Friday, March 9, 2012
Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington’s top bogeyman – and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners and assorted media shills – [...]
Continue reading...Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfire Looms
Friday, February 10, 2012
As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous effect on both of their [...]
Continue reading...Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their economies far more [...]
Continue reading...Libyan Oil Infrastrusture Assets Seized By the US Special Operations Forces?
Monday, January 30, 2012
The unexpectedly quick EU consent to take immediate sanctions against Iran “coincided” with seizure of Libyan oil terminals. To certain extent the negative affect of expected oil shortage for European economy could be minimized in case the utmost is done to boost the Brega and Ras-Lanuf production capacities till the complete cessation of contacts with [...]
Continue reading...Aggravation Game: Why the US Win In Case Iran Blockades Hormuz Strait?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Hormuz Strait closure by Iran will mainly benefit US oil companies and defense industry. The action will spark a crisis that would make easier to find a solution to the US economic woes and even create an opportunity to curtail its huge external debt. The USA puts pressure on their European allies to stop [...]
Continue reading...The Iran/Iraq War: Mutual Assured Destruction
Thursday, January 12, 2012
In 1979, as Iranian revolutionaries were taking charge in Tehran, Carter National Security Adviser, Afghan Frankenstein godfather and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Kuwait City meeting with Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Ahmed al Sabah, House of Saud envoys and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The group decided that Saddam’s Republican Guard would seize the [...]
Continue reading...Obama’s Byzantine Style in the ‘Greater Middle East’
Sunday, December 18, 2011
For the last few years the incumbent US administration was getting adhered to a new, more sophisticated principle in foreign policy: to act overseas by means of its allies and to promote American initiatives as multilateral through the international organizations. Thus, the war against Libya was unleashed by France, and the US was carrying out [...]
Continue reading...“Nuclear Caliphate” On the Agenda Of the Day
Monday, October 31, 2011
Death of Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saudi and the intrigues around the Saudi throne. The most likely contender for the throne, Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz al Saud, is a hardcore adherent of the Saudi hegemony. His coming to power will accelerate the creation of a “new Caliphate” founded upon the GCC, including Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the [...]
Continue reading...Who Decides On Nation-States?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The national aspirations of peoples are governed by rank public relations schemes On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the newest internationally-recognized nation-state. As the result of a civil war truce and peace deal worked out five years previously, South Sudan and its former master, the Republic of Sudan, independent since 1956, mutually [...]
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