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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: imperialism
Esperanto Estas La Plej Facila Lingvo En La Mondo
In the course of my Chinese adventures, all other languages started to seem a lot easier. So needless to say that Esperanto, one of the easiest of them all, looks like just a walk in the park now. In particular, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House
Tagged brazil, california, chinese language, esperanto, imperialism, india, languages, linguistics, me, russia
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In Which La Russophobe Interviews The Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion
Two weeks ago, I received a Facebook message from Kim Zigfeld, she of the infamous La Russophobe, asking me if I was interested in an interview with her. It didn’t take long for me to come to the right decision. … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged chechnya, corruption, georgia, human rights, humor, imperialism, interview, khodorkovsky, kprf, liberasty, medvedev, nato, navalny, nemtsov, pakistan, politics, putin, rant, rogozin, russia, russophobes, usa, western hypocrisy, western media, yeltsin
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Decade Forecast, Part 1 – The Downsizing Of Pax Americana
This is the first post in a series of three, in which I will analyze the major trends that will define the next ten years and their likely impacts on global regions. To put these forecasts into context, I must … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, economy, eu, futurism, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, military, peak oil, resource depletion, rise of the rest, usa, vision
14 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
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REPRINT: Wikileaks And The South Ossetia War
Though I originally meant to write my own analysis of what the Wikileaks cables have contributed to our understanding of the 2008 South Ossetia War, I realized that I would essentially be trying to duplicate the excellent efforts of Patrick … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged cablegate, georgia, guest, human rights, imperialism, international relations, military, nato, russia, usa, war, western hypocrisy, western media, wikileaks
12 Comments
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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I’d Sooner See The World Burn Than Compromise With Rogue Scientists
Or at least that’s what seems to be going around in the mind of Condoleezza Rice, if this cable (Cable 1) from September 2008 is anything to go by. After successfully persuading countries like Brazil to let the American scientist Christopher … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, The Sublime Cables
Tagged anti-science, china, climate change, copenhagen accords, ethiopia, global warming, imperialism, iran, usa, western hypocrisy
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Chechnya, A Once And Future War?
Truly, if Willian Burns were to issue an anthology of his Moscow cables during his 2005-2008 ambassadorship, I’d seriously consider buying it. Just consider this cable from May 2006, on Chechnya’s “Once and Future War”, a nuanced US view of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged cable, chechnya, corruption, human rights, imperialism, islam, nationalism, politics, russia, terrorism, usa, war, wikileaks, william burns
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Russia Arming The Rest, And US Views On This
Another Wikileaks cable – a secret one, not merely confidential – from our Caucasus ethnologist and bestest bud at the State Department, William Burns. Dated October 2007, it describes America’s perception of Russia’s global arms trade and emphasizes its concerns that … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged arms trade, cable, corruption, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, iran, military, rise of the rest, russia, usa, venezuela, wikileaks
18 Comments
Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Wikileaks как зеркальное отображение Запада); almost as if to prove my point here! A foreign “subversive” journalist, driven by fevered idealism, publishes reams of leaked internal documents from an Authority … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged assange, authoritarianism, azerbaijan, cablegate, china, corruption, crime, espionage, feminism, georgia, imperialism, islam, islamophobia, rant, russia, surkov, sweden, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media, wikileaks
25 Comments