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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: chaos
Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Western Media
The above photo, part of a photo report by Ridus, shows the Anti-Orange protest at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on February 4th. Does that look like 35,000 people to you, let alone 20,000 or 15,000?Because those were the most commonly cited figures … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged chaos, chechnya, liberasty, politics, protest, putin, rant, russia, russian media, western hypocrisy, western media
61 Comments
I Appear On RT To Discuss Occupy Wall Street
Here’s the video. Big thanks to the guys at RT, the channel that has been at the forefront of covering OWS for providing me with this opportunity. I was contacted by RT after they noticed my post on why OWS isn’t happening … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Life in General
Tagged chaos, economy, interview, me, politics, russian media, usa
21 Comments
BRIC’s of Stability: Why Occupy Wall Street Isn’t Coming To Moscow Or Beijing
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.ru (БРИК стабильности: почему Occupy Wall Street не приходит в Москву или Пекин?). As repeatedly noted by Mark Adomanis, the Russian liberals and the Western media have predicted about 10 of the last … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged arabs, chaos, china, economy, politics, rise of the rest, russia, usa
84 Comments
Introducing the Karlin Corruption Index (KCI)
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Представляю Индекс коррупции Карлина). Following on the ground-breaking and globally acknowledged Karlin Freedom Index (which is of course by far the most objective, accurate, comprehensive and plain awesome democracy measuring tool … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged chaos, china, corruption, crime, economy, italy, politics, rant, russia, ukraine, usa, venezuela, western media
30 Comments
Augmented Reality Warfare
In this installment of my series on future war, I’ll be taking a holistic view of ground combat. Unlike the case for naval warfare, which is going to be revolutionized by new weapons platforms – railguns, battle lasers, and submersible arsenal … Continue reading
SSR #8: On Future War
This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, china, collapse, energy, geoengineering, hi-tech, history, imperialism, military, russia, technology, usa, war
17 Comments
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, usa, vision, war
38 Comments
The Final Gambit: Geoengineering
It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm – the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less – will fail. This will lead … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, energy, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, global dimming, human rights, philosophy, science, technology, vision
6 Comments
Surviving Collapse Part 2
Having looked at Argentina’s mini-collapse in the early 2000′s, we will now turn to the classic modern case study of post-Soviet Russia, as recounted by Dmitry Orlov with my own commentary. Needless to say, as an emigrant from 1994 onwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, chaos, collapse, culture, economy, life, morale, russians, soviet union, usa, vision
10 Comments
Green Communism
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, rant, singularity, technology, vision
13 Comments