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: space
Thinking about Nuclear War
I have always been fascinated by nuclear war. Mountain bunkers, missile gaps, MAD, – what is there not to like? So this post will be devoted to the doomsday weapons which continue tantalizing us with visions of post-nuclear nirvana. Because yes, … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged economy, hi-tech, military, soviet union, space, technology, usa, war
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Bitch Slappers of the Next 100 Years
George Friedman at Stratfor is one of my favorite analysts on world geopolitics. This is because he tries to look at the world as it is, without the pointless moralizing, neoliberal ideologizing and end-of-history triumphalism that clouds too much American … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, climate change, demography, energy, geopolitics, hi-tech, history, international relations, japan, middle east, military, space, technology, ukraine, usa, visegrad, vision
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Hubris in the Heartland
The Western MSM (mainstream media) was abuzz the last few weeks about how Obama’s apparent extension of a hand to Russia did not make them willing to unclench their fist, citing the closure of the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan. This … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged geopolitics, international relations, latin america, military, nato, space, usa, venezuela, western hypocrisy
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Sublime Oblivion – What Might Be Is
This is the first in a series of philosophical essays in which I outline my philosophy of Sublime Oblivion. Here I demonstrate the indivisibility of the material and Platonic worlds and show that our universe is almost certainly a computer simulation nested within an abstract computer program or simulacrum. The consequences of these results are explored. Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged climate change, core article, energy, hi-tech, philosophy, science, space, technology, vision
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News 2 May: Russia’s Second Oil Peak
For all the noise being made this month about Georgia, about NATO, about Tibet, etc, possibly the most portentous is that it seems Russia hit its oil peak (strictly speaking, its second – the first happened in 1987), well in … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, china, climate change, demography, economy, education, energy, espionage, geopolitics, georgia, hi-tech, history, humor, military, news 2008, opinion poll, space
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News 25 Jan
The conventional wisdom seems to be that Russia, due to its strong macroeconomic fundamentals and relative isolation from the world economy, will weather the oncoming credit crisis well. In fact, Kudrin (the Finance Minister) suggested ‘Russia and other countries with … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged economy, hi-tech, international relations, military, nato, news 2008, space
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News 10 Jan
Russian moves to ban tobacco advertising MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian government has decided to completely ban tobacco advertizing, by signing up to a World Health Organization anti-smoking convention. In its first session of the year, the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged economy, energy, military, news 2008, public health, russians, space
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