Category: GeoPolitics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
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G8 Summit Proves to be Outdated and Useless / Politics / GeoPolitics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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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Energy Production and Going Green, Incompetent U.S. Intelligence Agencies / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
I send you Outside the Box each week not to make you comfortable but to make you think. Usually it is on some financial topic, but life is more than investments. Economics is not an isolated discipline (more like an art form I think) so we have to have a real understanding of the world around us. This week I offer two essays which made me both think and reflect. We live in a world which wants easy solutions to complex problems, and wish as we may, will not get easy solutions which will work.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Turkey Key to Washington’s Geopolitical Pivot / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
The recent visit of US President Obama to Turkey was far more significant than the President’s speech would suggest. For Washington Turkey today has become a geopolitical “pivot state” which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Obama's Geopolitical Strategy and the Summits / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
The weeklong extravaganza of G-20, NATO, EU, U.S. and Turkey meetings has almost ended. The spin emerging from the meetings, echoed in most of the media, sought to portray the meetings as a success and as reflecting a re-emergence of trans-Atlantic unity.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
G20, United States and Germany's Diverging Economic Interests / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Three major meetings will take place in Europe over the next nine days: a meeting of the G-20, a NATO summit and a meeting of the European Union with U.S. President Barack Obama. The week will define the relationship between the United States and Europe and reveal some intra-European relationships. If not a defining moment, the week will certainly be a critical moment in dealing with economic, political and military questions. To be more precise, the meeting will be about U.S.-German relations. Not only is Germany the engine of continental Europe, its policies diverge the most sharply from those of the United States. In some ways, U.S.-German relations have been the core of the U.S.-European relationship, so this marathon of summits will focus on the United States and Germany. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
North Korea’s Space Missile May Trigger Global War / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
The situation in the Asian-Pacific region continues to aggravate over the plans of the North Korean administration to launch a satellite into space. North Korea says that it is going to launch a civil satellite, although its neighboring states and the USA (of course) believe that Pyongyang is getting ready to test a ballistic missile. The truth will be unveiled on April 4-8, when the launch takes place. For the time being, any political statements regarding the matter are to be regarded as mere speculation.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Iran's View of President Obama / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
U.S. President Barack Obama released a video offering Iran congratulations on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Friday. Israeli President Shimon Peres also offered his best wishes, referring to “the noble Iranian people.” The joint initiative was received coldly in Tehran, however. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the video did not show that the United States had shifted its hostile attitude toward Iran. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Shifting Geopolitics- The Rise of Russia and Turkey / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev reportedly will travel to Turkey in the near future to follow up a recent four-day visit by his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, to Moscow. The Turks and the Russians certainly have much to discuss. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Obama Continues Bush Foreign Policy on Europe, Iran and Russia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
While the Munich Security Conference brought together senior leaders from most major countries and many minor ones last weekend, none was more significant than U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. This is because Biden provided the first glimpse of U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama. Most conference attendees were looking forward to a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration . What was interesting about Biden's speech was how little change there has been in the U.S. position and how much the attendees and the media were cheered by it. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
U.S. Economy Imploding as Obama Follows Failed NeoCon Policies / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Submissions
Paul Craig Roberts writes: Is there intelligent life in Washington, DC? Not a speck of it. The US economy is imploding, and Obama is being led by his government of neconservatives and Israeli agents into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the US into confrontation with Russia, and possibly China, American's largest creditor.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
President Obama Faces Crisis in Afghanistan and Russia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn in on Tuesday as president of the United States. Candidate Obama said much about what he would do as president ; now we will see what President Obama actually does. The most important issue Obama will face will be the economy , something he did not anticipate through most of his campaign. The first hundred days of his presidency thus will revolve around getting a stimulus package passed. But Obama also is now in the great game of global competition — and in that game, presidents rarely get to set the agenda . Read full article... Read full article...