Category: GeoPolitics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Wikipedia and Google Will Bring Down Establishments All Over the World / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Back in the early 1990's, I was told about a German economist with an American name: Paul C. Martin. He had written a book titled Paymaster Germany. Its thesis: Germany cannot send home its Turkish and other immigrants. They would break the German economy by pulling their money out of the country. Anyway, that's what my German contacts told me about the book. It has never been translated
Friday, August 14, 2009
China Poses Serious Threat to U.S. Interests in Africa / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will complete her ten-day African tour on August 14, when she visits Cape Verde islands. Clinton previously visited Kenya, the South African Republic, Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Liberia.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Pakistan Counterinsurgency / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Since the start of the U.S.-jihadist war in late 2001, and particularly since the rise of the Taliban rebellion within its own borders in recent years, Pakistan has been seen as a state embroiled in a jihadist insurgency threatening its very survival. Indeed, until late April, it appeared that Pakistan was buckling under the onslaught of a Taliban rebellion that had consumed large chunks of territory in the northwest and was striking at the country’s core. A Shariah-for-peace deal with the Taliban in the Swat region, approved with near unanimity by the parliament, reinforced the view that Pakistan lacked the willingness or capability to fight Islamist non-state actors chipping away at its security and stability.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
U.S. Missile Defense System, Most Expensive Fraud of the Century / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
The US Missile Defense System, a stumbling block in Russia-American bilateral relations, may prove to be the most expensive fraud of the present century. American physicists claim that the system has not been created as yet. They warned US President Barack Obama about it prior to his visit to Russia.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Obamageddon, War as the Solution to Economic Depression / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Justin Raimondo writes: An American president is launching the most ambitious, the most expensive, and certainly the most dangerous military campaign since the Vietnam War – and the antiwar movement, such as it is, is missing in action. After a long and bloody campaign in Iraq and the election of a U.S. president pledged to get us out, our government is once again revving up its war machine and taking aim at yet another "terrorist" stronghold, this time in Afghanistan. Yet the antiwar movement’s motor seems stuck in the wrong gear, making no motions toward mounting anything like an effective protest. What gives?
Monday, August 10, 2009
Hypothesizing on the Iran, Russia, U.S. Triangle / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
For the past several weeks, STRATFOR has focused on the relationship between Russia and Iran. As our readers will recall, a pro-Rafsanjani demonstration that saw chants of “Death to Russia,” uncommon in Iran since the 1979 revolution, triggered our discussion. It caused us to rethink Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Russia just four days after Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential election, with large-scale demonstrations occurring in Tehran. At the time, we ascribed Ahmadinejad’s trip as an attempt to signal his lack of concern at the postelection unrest. But why did a pro-Rafsanjani crowd chant “Death to Russia?” What had the Russians done to trigger the bitter reaction from the anti-Ahmadinejad faction? Was the Iranian president’s trip as innocent as it first looked?
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
U.S. Exporting Vampire Democracy / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
C.J. Maloney writes: Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote. ~ Gary North (2006)
Democracy, especially the virulent, vampire-like variety practiced in modern America, may very well be condemned to collapse, but that’s no reason to give up on it. Despite history telling us that all democracies inevitably devour themselves, history also tells us that every system of governance mankind can dream up have all come to an end, as for example the much lamented American Republic, snuffed out after barely a century or so.
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Monday, August 03, 2009
The End of Western Civilisation / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Butler Shaffer writes: My understanding of history, economics, and the laws of causation, have long led me to expect the present collapse of Western Civilization. I did not, however, anticipate the culture experiencing a free-fall into an awaiting black-hole. Like T.S. Eliot, I suspected Western society would end "not with a bang but a whimper." I envisioned a more gradual decline, one to which individuals could make the necessary adjustments in their lives that would lessen the impact and help to restore societal order.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
U.S. Empire Origins: Revolution, World Wars and World Order / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Andrew G. Marshall writes: Russia, Oil and Revolution - By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and sell kerosene from Indonesia, a Dutch colony. Also in 1890, a British company was founded with the intended purpose of shipping oil, the Shell Transport and Trading Company, and it “began transporting Royal Dutch oil from Sumatra to destinations everywhere,” and eventually, “the two companies merged to become Royal Dutch Shell.”[1]
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Germany Combat Operations in Afghanistan and Arms Trade / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Rick Rozoff writes: Earlier this week German soldiers under NATO command shot to death two Afghan civilians and seriously injured two more in the north of the nation.
During the past ten days German troops in NATO's Rapid Reaction Force have been conducting a major combat operation in Afghanistan's Kunduz Province.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Russia, Ahmadinejad and Iran Reconsidered / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed presidential election and the subsequent demonstrations. The crowd listening to Rafsanjani inside the mosque was filled with Ahmadinejad supporters who chanted, among other things, “Death to America” and “Death to China.” Outside the university common grounds, anti-Ahmadinejad elements — many of whom were blocked by Basij militiamen and police from entering the mosque — persistently chanted “Death to Russia.”
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
From WW II To WW III: Global NATO And Remilitarized Germany / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Rick Rozoff writes: The reunification of Germany in 1990 did not signify a centripetal trend in Europe but instead was an anomaly. The following year the Soviet Union was broken up into its fifteen constituent federal republics and the same process began in Yugoslavia, with Germany leading the charge in hastening on and recognizing the secession of Croatia and Slovenia from the nation that grew out of the destruction of World War I and again of World War II.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Is Washington Playing a Deeper Game with China? / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
July 12 —After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China.
Friday, July 10, 2009
G8 Summit Proves to be Outdated and Useless / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
The G8 summit opened in Italy, although one may not refer to the event as the meeting of eight leading countries in the world. The leaders of Russia, Italy, the USA, Canada, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, as well as the head of the European Committee, and the prime minister of EU’s chairing state, Sweden, gathered in the morning of July 8 for breakfast.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Full Spectrum Dominance, Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Submissions
Video interview,
William Engdahl on his book Full Spectrum Dominance:
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The U.S. Russian Summit Turns Routine / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
The Moscow summit between U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ended. As is almost always the case, the atmospherics were good, with the proper things said on all sides and statements and gestures of deep sincerity made. And as with all summits, those atmospherics are like the air: insubstantial and ultimately invisible. While there were indications of substantial movement, you would have needed a microscope to see them.
Friday, July 03, 2009
"Super Imperialism:" The Economic Strategy of Imperial America / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Stephen_Lendman
Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of Imperial America" - First written in 1972, it was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now - thus this review focusing on Hudson's new preface, introduction, and detailed account of the book's theme.
He revisited it in his 2008-09 Project Censored award- winning article titled: "Economic Meltdown - The 'Dollar Glut' is What Finances America's Global Military Build-up" in which he explains the following - the "inter-related dynamics" of:
Monday, June 22, 2009
The West's Global Hegemony, the Columbus Era 1492–2009 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Scott Kelly writes: On the evening of August 3, 1492, an Italian named Christopher Columbus departed from Palos de Frontera, Spain, in a flotilla of three ships. They were traveling under a Spanish flag and were headed west across the Atlantic Ocean. Their goal was to find a shorter passage to India.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Cuba Has Friends in High Places / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
On June 4, 2009, Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, were arrested by the FBI and charged with spying for the government of Cuba. According to court documents filed in the case, the Myers allegedly were recruited by the Cuban intelligence service in 1979 and worked for them as agents until 2007. On June 10, 2009, a U.S. Magistrate Judge ruled that the couple posed a flight risk and ordered them held without bond.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Internet Blogging Equated With High Treason in Many Countries / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
Being a blogger can be criminal even if bloggers do not attack the authorities of their countries. Any slip of the tongue or a side remark can be enough. This is a peculiar feature of authoritarian regimes that see the Internet as a threat to their existence. People may say anything they want on their blogs, and their points of view may not always coincide with the official point of view of a certain government.
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