Category: GeoPolitics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Washington Turf Wars / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
Washington’s bureaucratic turf wars are a dismal reality of politics in Beltwayistan, but are now threatening national policy, as competing agendas threaten policies extending far beyond the continental U.S.
In two of the most notable recent examples, the Kazakh “Giffengate” corruption case and attempts to extradite notorious “Lord of War” Viktor Bout to the United States, eager federal officials in both cases are running up against other government elements content to let both cases lie fallow, notably the CIA and Pentagon.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Nuclear Renaissance or The End of Nations ? / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_McKillop
The Internet is a vast rumour mill and Internet-thinking can lead to paranoia and selfdelusion.
This has infected the so-called "Nuclear debate" just like the Climate debate, the
Peak oil debate, the Environment debate and other mix-and-muddle mass readership
themes generated by political and corporate elites, put through the rumour mill, and
sterilized.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Al-Qaeda and the Anglo-American Terror Network / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_G_Marshall
The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order
With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a great many challenges as well as opportunities for the worlds most powerful hegemon.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Nobody Gave Us The Bomb - The Reality Of Nuclear Proliferation / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_McKillop
Many Internet sites, the press and media, and political leaders in some leading countries seek to
maintain the myth of "atom secrets" held by a very select few countries and principally the 5
permanent members of the UN Security Council, which by no coincidence are also the 5 earliest
countries to have developed, tested and used (in the case of the USA) atomic weapons, before
moving on to their industrial production. These "declared nuclear powers", in their rush to firstly
develop the fission or atomic bomb, then the fusion or hydrogen bomb, themselves repeatedly made
use of so-called "atom spies". Today however they seek to maintain the myth that spies, organized
crime syndicates, rogue governments, greedy industrialists and evil scientists are working to spread
and use the "atom secrets" that only they invented and still own.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation, Nobody Gave Us The Bomb / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_McKillop
The Internet, the press and media, and leading politicians bristle with trenchant prose on the dangers
of atomic weapons proliferation and how it can be stopped dead in its tracks. In the extreme case of
Iran's suspected "double track" approach using civil nuclear technology to make a bomb while
pretending it doesn't want the bomb, the extreme solution to make Iran "come clean" includes simply
bombing all of its nuclear installations. To some this is a practical and real option, whatever the
horrendous civilian "collateral damage" - and the impact on oil prices.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
U.S. Military Gearing Up to Challenge the Asian Century / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
The first decade of what more than a generation ago was predicted to be the Asian Century is winding down, marking ten years since the end of the American Century.
China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy during the second financial quarter of this year and three-quarters of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations, the world's largest emerging economies, are entirely or primarily in Asia. During its first heads of state summit in Russia last year, BRIC "urged the creation of a new global financial security system." [1] At the time its members accounted for 15 percent of the global economy and 42 percent of international currency reserves [2] even after the advent of the U.S.-triggered world financial crisis in 2008.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Vestiges of Nuclear War Begin To Appear in Asia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
On August 6 and 9, the world marked the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings marked the ending of WWII: Japan was forced to capitulate over the fear of even more destructive attacks. However, even after the first-ever practical nuclear bombings the world could not stop from ending the nuclear race.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
U.S. China Conflict, Moving From War of Words to Talk of War / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Rick_Rozoff
Relations between the U.S. and China have been steadily deteriorating since the beginning of the year when Washington confirmed the completion of a $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan and China suspended military-to-military ties with the U.S. in response.
In January the Chinese Defense Ministry announced the cessation of military exchanges between the two countries and the Foreign Ministry warned of enforcing sanctions against American companies involved with weapons sales to Taiwan.
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Monday, August 09, 2010
Targeting Iran, US Administration Planning a Nuclear Attack? / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against Iran with devastating consequences. This military adventure in the real sense of the word threatens the future of humanity.
While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using "new technologies" and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality.
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Monday, August 09, 2010
War Against Iran as a Method of Promoting Globalisation / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Dmitry Sedov writes: There is little doubt that the US will hit Iran after pulling its troops out of Iraq. Military spending in the US has gained too much momentum to leave any hope that the current dynamics will change in the foreseeable future. The US military-industrial complex and its Pentagon partners have long been preparing the war-against-Iran project, readily resorting to the most unsavory methods in the process.
Friday, August 06, 2010
First Nuclear World War Just Around the Corner? / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
Seoul and Pyongyang have started another stage of the verbal war following the start of military drills in the Yellow Sea. The drills are being held to intensify South Korea's response to asymmetrical provocations on the part of the potential enemy. S. Korean officials repeatedly stated that the nation would not tolerate any provocations from the North.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
U.S. China Inevitable Strategic Conflict / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Prof Wang Jisi writes: In early 2010, conflicts between China and the US came thick and fast, leading to the most serious political disturbance between the two countries since the plane collision in 2001. At the beginning of April, as the heads of both countries talked over the telephone and Chinese President Hu Jintao attended a nuclear security summit in Washington, Sino-US relations became less tense. Tensions were further eased by the Second China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Beijing in May.
Friday, August 06, 2010
Isolating Iran is Part of the Great Energy Game / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Kourosh Ziabari writes: The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’ fears of losing the power game in the Persian Gulf region, and the expansion of illegal settlements of Israel in the West Bank and its unremitting disobedience to United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Hollywood Promotes War on Iran, "Countdown to Zero" / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Rady Ananda writes: Seductive, fascinating and frightening, Countdown to Zero motivates the public to support complete nuclear disarmament and to fear Iran, which is conveniently the next country the US wants to invade. Framed in no-nuke rhetoric, Countdown to Zero is not-so-subtle agitprop. The film relies on conventional geopolitics to whip up conventional audiences into another conventional state of panic. Islamo-terrorists just can’t acquire this technology! This is painfully similar to what we were told prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Friday, July 30, 2010
International Community Presses Juba, Khartoum On Sudan Referendum / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
The international community is pressuring the Juba and Khartoum governments to speed up preparation for a vote on South Sudan’s future – a decision that will be dominated by the fate of coveted oil resources -- but an expert on the African country criticizes the lack of understanding about Sudan.The referendum, scheduled for January 2011, is widely expected to result in the south parting ways with the north after years of bitterness and war.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The Strategic Ramifications of a US-Led Withdrawal from Afghanistan / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
The United States and the NATO allies are preparing to disengage and soon withdraw from Afghanistan and even the most vocal advocates of the "long-term commitment" do not anticipate more than five years of active US and NATO involvement. All the local key players — in Kabul, Islamabad, and countless tribal and localized foci of power — are cognizant and are already maneuvering and posturing to deal with the new reality.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Russian Spies and Strategic Intelligence / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
The United States has captured a group of Russian spies and exchanged them for four individuals held by the Russians on espionage charges. The way the media has reported on the issue falls into three groups:
- That the Cold War is back,
- That, given that the Cold War is over, the point of such outmoded intelligence operations is questionable,
- And that the Russian spy ring was spending its time aimlessly nosing around in think tanks and open meetings in an archaic and incompetent effort.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Russia Natural Gas Politics vs Germany, Geopolitical Importance of Lubmin / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
In the postwar history of the Federal Republic, German Chancellors tend to disappear once they pursue political goals that deviate from the Washington global agenda too much. In the case of Gerhard Schroeder, it involved two unforgiveable “sins.” The first was his open opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The second, far more serious strategically, was his negotiations with Russia’s Putin to bring a major new natural gas pipeline directly from Russia, bypassing then-hostile Poland, to Germany. Today the first section of that Nord Stream gas pipeline has reached the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern coastal town of Lubmin on the Baltic Sea, making Lubmin into a geopolitical pivot for Europe and Russia.
Monday, July 05, 2010
The New Civil Wars Within the West / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: OilPrice_Com
Internecine civil wars are underway almost everywhere within the West, and most virulently in the United States of America. They are not yet kinetic wars, but wars of grinding prepositioning, the kind which lead to foregone conclusions without a shot being fired. They are wars of survival, nonetheless, because the basic architecture for national strength is being altered incrementally or dramatically. And, in many cases, consciously. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, July 01, 2010
The Dismantling of a Suspected Russian Intelligence Operation / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
The U.S. Department of Justice announced June 28 that an FBI counterintelligence investigation had resulted in the arrest on June 27 of 10 individuals suspected of acting as undeclared agents of a foreign country, in this case, Russia. Eight of the individuals were also accused of money laundering. On June 28, five of the defendants appeared before a federal magistrate in U.S. District Court in Manhattan while three others went before a federal magistrate in Alexandria, Va., and two more went before a U.S. magistrate in Boston. An 11th person named in the criminal complaint was arrested in Cyprus on June 29, posted bail and is currently at large.