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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: coal
New Year Special, Part 2: 2011 Predictions
Carrying on from yesterday’s 2010 in Review, I’ll now lay out my predictions for this year and see how well last year’s stacked up to reality. (1) Last year, I wrote: “World economy continues an anemic recovery, though there are … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, coal, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, israel, italy, luzhkov, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, russia, spain, uk, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
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Tales From The Beijing Embassy
Four cables from Cathay, courtesy of this excellent Cable Search tool. The first cable (Cable 1) is one of the last dispatches of Ambassador to the PRC Clark T. Randt, a long, analytical piece from January 2009. But it’s also … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion, The Sublime Cables
Tagged africa, aid, cable, china, coal, corruption, economy, education, futurism, growth, hi-tech, human rights, imperialism, international relations, iq, kenya, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, rise of the rest, science, technology, urbanization, usa, vision, wikileaks
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Sublime News #8 – #9
1. The revolution in Kyrgyzstan to be covered in Sublime News #10 – this issue is packed enough as it is. For now, read Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Resurgence (free Stratfor) for a summary. 2. Putin made a conciliatory speech on the 70th … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged afghanistan, asia, authoritarianism, caucasus, central asia, chechnya, china, climate change, coal, collapse, demography, economy, energy, humor, hungary, imperialism, india, iraq, islam, israel, kyrgyzstan, liberasty, mexico, middle east, military, news 2010, north korea, palestine, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, rise of the rest, russia, russophobes, shale gas, thermoeconomics, turkey, uk, ukraine, usa, venezuela, volcanos
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SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower
This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, china, climate change, coal, culture, energy, environment, finance, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, japan, military, morale, politics, resource depletion, ssr, usa, vision, water
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