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Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
Europe’s ‘Af-Pak’ Syndrome
What does Afghanistan (and by implication, Pakistan) mean for Europeans? Is the threat posed by both merely transnational in...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
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Iraq and AfghanistanWhy are we in Afghanistan? OIL!We wanted a huge oil pipeline to go from the Afghan-Pakistan region to the...
 
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Iraq and AfghanistanWhy are we in Afghanistan? OIL!We wanted a huge oil pipeline to go from the Afghan-Pakistan region to the...
 
KosmikK
KosmikK posted a blog entry

Iraq and AfghanistanWhy are we in Afghanistan? OIL!We wanted a huge oil pipeline to go from the Afghan-Pakistan region to the...
 
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Bored with football stats? Introducing fantasy geopolitics - The Boston Globe
antasy geopolitics. Instead of being the manager of a sports team, you’re now the head of a group of nations, with your statistical performance pitted against the performance of your opponents. It’s your very own NATO, minus the Cold War baggage.
 
hanifalhusayn
hanifalhusayn posted a blog entry
Mounting tensions between Colombia and Venezuela over U.S. power projection into Latin America
In recent months, diplomatic disputes have flared between Colombia and Venezuela over the recently signed U.S. Colombia Accord,...
 
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DnCassidy
DnCassidy posted a blog entry
Russia and Vatican to Establish Full Diplomatic Relations
From Catholic World NewsRussia and the Holy See have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations. The agreement was announced...
15 days ago Sunlit Uplands | Topics: Vatican, Geopolitics, Russia
 
hanifalhusayn
hanifalhusayn posted a blog entry
LINK: America and Russia: Has the Cold War Really Ended?
An article discussing the continuation of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was recently posted on the Centre for...
 
awicaks
awicaks posted a blog entry
Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
Farmers who cut and burn trees in Brazil's part of the Amazon River Basin cause less environmental destruction, than rich...
 
awicaks
awicaks posted a blog entry
Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended several countries for human rights reasons. Now, campaigners, politicians and...
 
Michael
Michael posted a blog entry
22 days ago Cobb | Topics: Geopolitics
 
Michael
Michael posted a blog entry
22 days ago Cobb | Topics: Geopolitics
 
Berniemack-HabagatCentral
Berniemack-HabagatCentral posted a blog entry
In the News: Buluan and Shariff Aguak Maguindanao
Given the degree of the events that happened in Cotabato (Maguindanao to be exact) region, HabagatCentral.com would like to...
24 days ago HabagatCentral | Topics: Cotabato, Mindanao, News, Pitstop
 
Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
Time to engage Russia? A reply
In a recent article, Riccardo Alcaro and Emiliano Alessandri argued that Europeans should re-engage with Russia. In a reply,...
 
Blue Collar Muse
Blue Collar Muse posted a blog entry
ClimateGate: Man-Made Global Warming May Be What Some Scientists Chose to be True
When discussing scientific things with a friend of mine, a scientist himself, the notion of Science as the dispassionate,...
 
Baltimoron
Baltimoron posted a blog entry
America’s Dilemma
Niall Ferguson lays out the geopolitical dilemma rather crisply.CHARLIE ROSE: But here is the idea. Nobody thinks that...
 
Tanzeel
Tanzeel posted a blog entry
Hoh, Oho!
Strange title, eh? Wait a bit please.Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became [...]
 
DnCassidy
DnCassidy posted a blog entry
Twenty Years After the Fall
From StratforBy George Friedman We are now at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the...
 
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Top Obama Advisors Want More Troops In Afghanistan
The New York Times reports on the march to perpetual war in Afghanistan occurring within the Obama administration:Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
 
Stephen Bray
Stephen Bray posted a blog entry
Prayers And Cola!
In Turkey many mosques, including this one, broadcast prayers, and accompanying roger beeps, on over-amplified, inferior public...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
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Shootings: A Symptom of how Afghanis view the OccupationMany of us have probably viewed long coverage of the funerals of...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
rorywinter@... posted a blog entry

Shootings: A Symptom of how Afghanis view the OccupationMany of us have probably viewed long coverage of the funerals of...
 
KosmikK
KosmikK posted a blog entry

Shootings: A Symptom of how Afghanis view the OccupationMany of us have probably viewed long coverage of the funerals of...
42 days ago Chimes of Freedom | Topics: afghanistan, geopolitics
 
Stephen Bray
Stephen Bray posted a blog entry
Cappadocia ~ Ortarhisar Abandoned Homes
Cappadocia, once an important staging post on the Silk Road now has many abandoned cave houses such as the one in this...
 
<em>pinquirer</em>
pinquirer posted a blog entry
National Security Negligence
The president is - once again - negligent when it comes to a critical issue of national security. He doesn't care. He has...
 
hanifalhusayn
hanifalhusayn posted a blog entry
The grand chessboard: The Pakistani ‘Drone Wars’: Part 2 – exploring geopolitical motivators of the drone strategy
[This two part series aims to explore the motivations behind, and consequences of, the U.S. ‘drone war’ in Pakistan. The...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
rorywinter@... posted a blog entry

Will the Empire end in Good Leadership or Blood?“The silver lining is that we manage this [transition] with good...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
rorywinter@... posted a blog entry

Will the Empire end in Good Leadership or Blood?"The silver lining is that we manage this [transition] with good leadership,...
 
KosmikK
KosmikK posted a blog entry

Will the Empire end in Good Leadership or Blood?"The silver lining is that we manage this [transition] with good leadership,...
46 days ago Chimes of Freedom | Topics: usa, geopolitics, oil and gas
 
Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
Time to engage Russia?
Since 1999, the relationship between Russia and the Europeans and Americans has deteriorated on a whole number of levels. How...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
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Uzbek Terror and the USUKEx-ambassador Craig Murray exposes the horrific tortures taking place in Uzbekistan and the reasons...
 
<em>rorywinter@...</em>
rorywinter@... posted a blog entry

Uzbek Terror and the USUKEx-ambassador Craig Murray exposes the horrific tortures taking place in Uzbekistan and the reasons...
 
KosmikK
KosmikK posted a blog entry

Uzbek Terror and the USUKEx-ambassador Craig Murray exposes the horrific tortures taking place in Uzbekistan and the reasons...
 
Rakesh Vanamali
Rakesh Vanamali posted a blog entry
India & China - The ongoing spat
A war of words between the Asian heavy weights seemed to get out of proportion, with China blaring its thoughts in public...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
from russia without love
The first human in space was a citizen of the Soviet Union and don’t think for a moment that Russians forgot it,...
 
Stephen Bray
Stephen Bray posted a blog entry
Kumlubuk: After The Rant
I snapped this with the E-3 fitted with the 25mm Panasonic Leica Summilux, which is undoubtedly my heaviest but best lens.
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
The New Himalayas
Nuclear weapons are doing what high mountains once didAs K M Panikkar noted, while India developed a sophisticated framework...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
K M Panikkar on India’s strategic omphaloskepsis
The costly refusal to see beyond itself and the subcontinentAn extract from Sardar K M Panikkar’s Annual Day address to...
 
Rakesh Vanamali
Rakesh Vanamali posted a blog entry
The Presidential Nobel
After President Obama was conferred the Nobel peace prize last week, I have received several emails asking my opinion and...
 
Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
The European Union and missile defence
Last month, the United States shelved its missile defence programme in Poland and the Czech Republic. This article looks at the...
 
<em>mark_fedeli</em>
mark_fedeli posted a blog entry
Deep Disquiet
I agree with Pete Wehner’s article below and the opinion of Charles Krauthammer expressed in it…for the most...
70 days ago A Deo Lumen | Topics: Election, Geopolitics, Worldview
 
<em>pinquirer</em>
pinquirer posted a blog entry
And the Winner is…
Yet another President of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize!Yee Ha! We’re Number One! We’re Number...
 
<em>pinquirer</em>
pinquirer posted a blog entry
Welcome To World War 3
Consider the disruption caused by three airplanes crashing into as many buildings in 2001. A coordinated cyberattack in just a...
72 days ago The Political Inquirer | Topics: Geopolitics
 
Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
The Irish ‘Yes’: a green light for European Security and Defence Policy?
Now that the Irish Republic has backed the Treaty of Lisbon, what next? What will be the implications if or when the Treaty is...
 
Michael
Michael posted a blog entry
That Depends Upon What Your Definition of Nation Is
Barack Obama, him say: "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow," Obama said, detailing how the facility near Qom...
82 days ago Cobb | Topics: Geopolitics
 
awicaks
awicaks posted a blog entry
People's Voices: Challenging the G20's Agenda of Corporate Globalization, September 2009
Foreign Policy In Focus | September 24, 2009 With multiple crises affecting our world – global economy, climate change,...
 
Michael
Michael posted a blog entry
Obama's Foreign Policy Is Useless
Increasingly, Barack Obama sounds like one of those stentorian orators of the era of the League of Nations and disarmament....
84 days ago Cobb | Topics: A Punch in the..., Geopolitics
 
Nosemonkey
Nosemonkey posted a blog entry
Think Again: ‘Britain is not European’
Is Britain a European power? Or is the country more global in its orientation? In this article, we show that British global...
 
Rakesh Vanamali
Rakesh Vanamali posted a blog entry
A Q Khan and some candid admissions
The ISI and some elements from within the Pakistan government must be a worried lot, especially in the wake of some candid...