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Sublime News #6
1. My e-friend Eugene Ivanov participated on Peter Lavelle’s Crosstalk program at Russia Today, Lobbying: Who really rules America? Check it out! 2. Is Obama transforming America into Amerika? Let me explain. Take a look at the details of the healthcare … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, economy, energy, geoengineering, germany, hi-tech, international relations, islam, liberasty, military, morale, news 2010, obama, opinion poll, peak oil, public health, rise of the rest, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, ukraine, usa, western hypocrisy
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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
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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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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
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Tagged armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, demography, economy, energy, france, geopolitics, georgia, imperialism, international relations, military, politics, Russia Resources, ukraine, war
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Voice of the People Part 3
This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia’s Gallup, since February 2009, and continues from Part 1 and Part 2. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, baltics, belarus, corruption, culture, economy, estonia, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, soviet union, ukraine, western hypocrisy
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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
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Tagged authoritarianism, britain, 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 Resources, scotland, spain, ssr, sweden, turkey, usa, visegrad, vision
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The Road to Economic Sovereignty
Review of “Kicking Away the Ladder” (H. Chang) Chang, Ha-Joon – Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002) Category: economy; history; industrial policy; Rating: 5/5 Summary: Kicking Away the Ladder:How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have … Continue reading
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Tagged britain, china, corruption, economy, education, espionage, finance, france, germany, history, international relations, japan, review, Reviews, Russia Resources, sweden, usa, western hypocrisy
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The Return of the Reich?
This is my second follow-up post to The Belief Matrix, in which I attempted to advance a universal model for civilizational responses to subsistence crises (The Malthusian Loop) and the Western challenge (The Sisyphean Loop). This time I will look at … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, collapse, culture, demography, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, history, imperialism, international relations, matrix, morale, peak oil, poland, politics, Russia Resources, visegrad, vision
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Violence is Reality
Realism has been falling out of favor since the end of the Cold War, condemned by the Kumbaya crowd, avoided by the liberal, PC-gone-wild intelligentsia, and denigrated by “end of history” ideologues (many of whom all too cynically remain realists while … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, chaos, collapse, crime, culture, demography, history, human rights, imperialism, international relations, liberasty, life, military, resources, Russia Resources, usa, vision, war
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