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Environmental Warfare in 10 years

Diane Francis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Geostrategy, Australia, Migration, Geoengineering, Latin America, Environmental Refugees, Environment, Green, Geopolitics, Mexico, Spain, Degradation, Greece, Green News
Diane Francis

Oil company CEOs and Canadian, U.S. and British government officials attending the Global Business Forum in Banff last week heard a chilling forecast of military clashes if there is an environmental meltdown due to climate change.

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Spurred by Iran, Arab World Witnesses Nuclear Renaissance

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Jordan, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Arab League, Obama, Iran, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dubai, Arabs, Nuclear Weapons, Egypt, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Iaea, Oil, Geopolitics, Iraq, Uae, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

As North Korea restarts its main nuclear plant and Iran continues to flex its nuclear muscles, a less publicized nuclear renaissance is underway in the Middle East.

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Obama's Earth Day Energy Declaration: California May Be The Model He Says, But It's Not Enough

William Bradley | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Climate Change, Iowa, Greenhouse Gas, Jerry Brown, George W. Bush, Geopolitics, Renewable Energy, V. John White, Earth Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Nuclear, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Gray Davis, Green News
William Bradley

For those who think that it's too hard to build an economy without pursuing the old course on energy, Obama pointed to California, the world's seventh largest economy.

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Anti-Dollar Contagion Gains Pace

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Geopolitics, Russia, Currency, International Monetary Fund, China, Dollar, China Reserve Currency, Super Reserve Currency China, China Currency, Worlds-Reserve-Currency, Reserve Currency, China Super Reserve Currency, China Super Currency, China Us Debt, Business News
Michael J. Panzner

As was the case with the now hobbled U.S. banking system, the dollar's fortunes have long depended on the confidence of others.

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'Obama Does Globalistan'

Russ Wellen | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

Read More: Oil, Geopolitics, Eurasia, Great Game, Economy, Barack Obama, Natural Gas, Pepe Escobar, Obama Does Globalistan, World News
Russ Wellen

Obama "inherits" a Globalistan where teeming masses have discovered, to their grief, that markets do not suppress poverty, unemployment and exploitation.

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Obama and His Commanders

William Bradley | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Joe Biden, Taliban, Central Command, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, West Point, Mike Mullen, David Petraeus, Bob Gates, Jim Jones, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Geopolitics, Iraq, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Missile Strikes, 100 Days, Politics News
William Bradley

Now we're into one of the most fascinating parts of the new Obama administration: President Obama's relationship with America's military commanders.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Masterstroke, Mousetrap, Or Both?

William Bradley | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, Clinton Foundation, TV Advertising, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State, Presidential Campaign, Obama Transition, Geopolitics, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Wes Clark, Madeline Albright, Team of Rivals, Al Gore, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Cabinet, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Administration, Wesley Clark, Foreign Policy, Politics News
William Bradley

Potential Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it a masterstroke by President-elect Obama? A mousetrap for the Clintons? Is it even happening at all?

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My Talk With Bernard-Henri Levy: The Empty Heaven of Democracy

Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geopolitics, Bernard Henri Levy, French Politics, France, International, Politics News
Nathan Gardels

Left in Dark Times is a breathless account of the outright silliness of the French left and the political battles waged over the past few decades as a result of Levy's public stances.

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That Foreign Policy Debate We're Not Having

William Bradley | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Afghanistan, Missile Shield, Pakistan, Joe Biden, 9/11, Georgia, Iran, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Foreign Policy, John Cmcain, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, National Security, Russia-Georgia War, Nato, Sarah Palin, Palestinian, Geopolitics, Central Asia, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Presidential Debate, Politics News
William Bradley

The problem with foreign policy debates is that we end up debating symptoms -- illegal immigration from Mexico, a surge in Iraq -- rather than systems.

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"New Cold War" Leaves Voters Cold But Shows Obama's Need

William Bradley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, John McCain, Presidential Campaign, Middle East, Georgia, Geopolitics, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan, Barack Obama, Russia Georgia War, Joe Biden, Politics News
William Bradley

It turns out that McCain's hot rhetoric in the wake of the Russia-Georgia War isn't catching on. But McCain is still seen as the national security/geopolitics maven.

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The End of American Exceptionalism: Bacevich on Moyers

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Geopolitics, Oil, Middle East, Obama, Mccain, Iraq, 2008 Election, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Raymond Leon Roker

Andrew Bacevich never let's you easily and conveniently point the finger at rogue political leaders, showing them as part of the continuum that includes the American citizen.

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My Conversation with Daniel Yergin

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Gas, Charlie Rose, Geopolitics, Russia, Oil, Climate Change, Daniel Yergin, China, Enviornment, Business News
Charlie Rose

Oil and all the ramifications of rising prices continue to be a source of international urgency. Daniel Yergin, one of the leading oil experts in t...

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NATO and the New Cold War

Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Cold War, Sco, China, Nato, Richard Nixon, Alliances, War, Eastern Bloc, Geopolitics, Politics News
Conn Hallinan

Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.

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