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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: italy
Corruption Realities Index 2010
The most famous corruption indicator is Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Its only problem is that the perceptions of their self-appointed experts have nothing to do with reality! As I explained in previous posts on this blog, it suffers from … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House
Tagged china, corruption, crime, economy, human rights, italy, oil, politics, russia, usa, western media
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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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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
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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
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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