Category: GeoPolitics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia, Russia and China At Geopolitical Crossroads / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising.
Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of state of the main transit nation for the U.S. and NATO war in Afghanistan.
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Friday, April 02, 2010
Tension Builds in the Gulf of Guinea as Competition for Economic Resources Increases / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
The strategic framework and the correlation of forces in the Gulf of Guinea — one of the most significant and growing energy resource regions of the world — is changing rapidly. A new era in security arrangements for the region is beginning.The region is moving from an area of low technology defense and security systems, and minimal command and control at national levels, to one of growing sophistication, higher mobility, and the potential for military confrontation.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Ukraine and a Tectonic Shift in Heartland Power, The USA Russia Pipeline Wars / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
Part I: The Geopolitical significance of Ukraine today
A decisive vote against NATO - On February 14 Ukraine's Election Commission declared Viktor Yanukovych the winner in that embattled country's Presidential runoff vote, defeating former Prime Minister and Orange Revolution instigator Yulia Tymoshenko. Contrary to the positive spin Washington is trying to put on the events, they mark the definitive death of Ukraine's much-touted “Orange Revolution.“
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Brazil, Iran: A Troublesome Relationship for the U.S. / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
World economies I get: currency, trading, deficits, surpluses... World politics is another story. I follow what happens: summits, policy changes, elections: but what does it mean for energy markets, potential threats, actual relations between countries? These situations define our future - financial and otherwise.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
New Falklands War for Oil Suits British and Argentinian Politicians / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
The artificially-engendered revival of the dispute, which began in February 2010 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has been portrayed as a posturing by embattled Argentine Pres. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, taking advantage of both the start of exploratory oil and gas drilling by British company Desire Petroleum in the Falklands waters, and the talks by Latin American and Caribbean leaders of the Rio Group in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen, beginning on February 22, 2010. But the crisis may well play into the political posturing of equally embattled United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who faces a general election by June 2010 at the latest.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Britain May Provoke New Falklands War With Argentina / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
On February 22 two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and Great Britain started drilling for oil 60 miles north of the Falklands Islands, known as Las Malvinas to Argentina.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Europe's Five Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
According to a recent report, former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson confirmed that Turkey possesses 40-90 "Made in America" nuclear weapons at the Incirlik military base.(en.trend.az/)
Does this mean that Turkey is a nuclear power?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Strategic Geopolitical and Economic Forecasts for 2010 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and media seemed to be of a different planet from activities taking place in the real world.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
U.S. China War of Words Over Iran Nuke Sanctions / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Mike_Shedlock
The war of rhetoric with China continues. Hillary Clinton is again battling China over China's relationship with Iran. Please consider Clinton presses China over Iran nuke sanctions.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Pentagon Confronts Russia In The Baltic Sea / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
Twelve months ago a new U.S. administration entered the White House as the world entered a new year.
Two and a half weeks later the nation's new vice president, Joseph Biden, spoke at the annual Munich Security Conference and said "it's time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia."
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
A former US President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti. A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal ‘pact with the Devil.’ Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Ukraine's Election and the Russian Resurgence / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Ukrainians go to the polls Feb. 7 to choose their next president. The last time they did this, in November 2004, the result was the prolonged international incident that became known as the Orange Revolution. That event saw Ukraine cleaved off from the Russian sphere of influence, triggering a chain of events that rekindled the Russian-Western Cold War.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Nigeria’s Constitutional Dilemma Coming to an Unpredictable Head / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
Nigerian Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, 59, through failing health, is clearly no longer in control of the Government. Some are proclaiming that the "post-Yar'Adua era" has begun in Nigerian politics, but the reality is that there is still much maneuvering going on to plan the succession to the Presidency, even though the fiction of "business as usual" has become paper-thin.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
U.S. - China Growing Military Tensions / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to the U.S. and its allies. China has no troops outside its borders; Russia has a small handful in its former territories in Abkhazia, Armenia, South Ossetia and Transdniester. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in six continents.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Blunder and Plunder, The History of War / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Kozy
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) claimed that "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Perhaps. But more serious are those who know history but learn nothing from it.
Victor Davis Hanson is a Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a columnist for National Review Online—all institutions with admittedly right wing views. He writes about war but has never fought in one. He is a historian whose views of history are based on his biases, not the evidence.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Yemen, Behind Al-Qaeda Scenarios, a Geopolitical Oil Chokepoint to Eurasia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was “suspected” of having been trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US ‘War on Terror,’ namely a desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Faber Says Watch US vs. China Great Powers Game Play During 2010 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Dr Faber, in the September issue of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report you said that the future will be a total disaster with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it. Three months later do you still stand by that assessment or did you underestimate the power of the governments to shore up the global economy?
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Fall of Berlin Wall Triggered USSR Catastrophe / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
On November 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Germany to participate in international events to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The new generation of politicians will join the leaders of the Cold War era to celebrate the existence of undivided Europe, without any separating strips.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Obama and the U.S. Strategy of Buying Time / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in progress, but the pending decisions he has to make -- on Iran, Afghanistan and Russia -- tend to obscure underlying strategy. It is easy to confuse inaction with a lack of strategy. Of course, there may well be a lack of strategic thinking, but that does not mean there is a lack of strategy. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 26, 2009
Russia, Iran and the Biden Speech / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden toured several countries in Central Europe last week, including the Czech Republic and Poland. The trip comes just a few weeks after the United States reversed course and decided not to construct a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in those two countries. While the system would have had little effect on the national security of either Poland or the Czech Republic, it was taken as a symbol of U.S. commitment to these two countries and to former Soviet satellites generally. The BMD cancellation accordingly caused intense concern in both countries and the rest of the region.