About
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: france
Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe)
After a year long hiatus from interviewing Russia watchers, I decided it was time to get back in the game. As it happens, my attention first fell on a Europe blogger – and not just any incisive, counter-intuitive scribbler whose intellect and … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, craig willy, demography, economy, energy, eu, europe, france, futurism, gas, guest, interview, islam, islamophobia, marxism, national comparisons, politics, russia, uk, usa
4 Comments
The Radical Ideologies Of The 21st Century
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Радикальные идеологии 21-го века). Though I’ve written a lot on technological, energy, and geopolitical futures, this has largely been to the neglect of ideology. Part of the reason is that … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, china, climate change, france, futurism, germany, global warming, imperialism, politics, russia, usa, vision
14 Comments
Top 10 Most Powerful Countries In 2011
The Chinese have an interesting concept that quantifies Great Power status, called Comprehensive National Power (CNP). This index is produced by processing the economic, military and cultural factors that make countries powerful: GDP, technological development, number of tanks and ICBM’s, as … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged brazil, china, economy, education, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, india, international relations, japan, military, russia, turkey, uk, usa
624 Comments
New Year Special, Part 1: 2010 in Review
Happy new year to all Sublime Oblivion readers! This blog wouldn’t be what it is without you. In fact, I’d have probably abandoned it after a month or two after a couple of posts as I did with my first … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, authoritarianism, china, climate change, economy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, israel, middle east, military, politics, rise of the rest, russia, uk, usa, vision, wikileaks
27 Comments
Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: The Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2
So you know how the Western commentariat carries on about how Russia Today fawns over the Kremlin and propagates anti-Western propaganda, while shamelessly peddling itself as a paragon of universal truth and uncompromising objectivity? Welcome to the next installment in the never-ending … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged blogging, corruption, drought, france, russia, russians, russophobes, western hypocrisy, western media
9 Comments
Sublime News #4
1. As you may have noticed, I’ve radically simplified the website. I regret having to remove the Twitter integration and coolest navigation features. Nonetheless, it was unavoidable. The website loaded far too slowly most of the time, and when I … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged anti-science, blogging, brazil, china, climate change, collapse, economy, energy, feminism, fiscal crisis, france, geopolitics, greece, hi-tech, humor, iraq, liberasty, life, military, news 2010, peak oil, peak water, pollution, psycho, psychology, resource war, russia, turkey, usa
18 Comments
Sublime News #3
1. Over the long-term, it is the less-noticed things that generally come to be regarded as the most important. The rise of China, not the war on terror. Peak oil and the declining EROEI of our energy sources, not stock … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged arctic, balkans, blogging, brazil, china, climate, demography, economy, energy, france, geopolitics, global warming, hi-tech, humor, imperialism, israel, liberasty, military, nato, neoliberalism, news 2010, poland, russophobes, turkey, usa, ussr, war, western hypocrisy
18 Comments
Regathering of the Russian Lands
I have long noted Russia’s resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, demography, economy, energy, france, geopolitics, georgia, imperialism, international relations, military, politics, russia, ukraine, war
14 Comments
New Year Special: Year in Review and 2010 Predictions
I would like to wish all Sublime Oblivion readers a very happy and successful New Year. One of my major motivations for writing is getting comments and feedback, so please continue – the more you inflate my ego, the more … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, climate change, demography, economy, france, geopolitics, germany, iran, islam, israel, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, russia, usa, vision, war
6 Comments
SSR #10: Europe, The Black Continent
This is the first of fifteen Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. I am going to start off by looking at Europe, defined as the region under the influence of Western Christianity and/or the European Union … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, core article, demography, economy, eire, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, history, imperialism, international relations, islam, italy, military, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, russia, scotland, spain, ssr, sweden, turkey, uk, usa, visegrad, vision
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