Tag Archive: Europe/Russia

How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them

Released for Syndication: 06/18/2020

Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of...

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Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle

Released for Syndication: 06/12/2020

The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in...

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U.S. Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons

Released for Syndication: 06/02/2020

The U.S. walking out of the Open Skies agreement is a clear signal that it seeks global dominance. As other countries are unlikely to surrender, we are back to hair-trigger nuclear alerts and the Doomsday Clock inching toward midnight.

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NATO Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia

Released for Syndication: 06/01/2020

The great game in Libya has begun surging with the United States shedding its strategic ambivalence and resorting to a proactive role. At the...

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How Russia Is Botching Its Alliance With Syria

Released for Syndication: 05/19/2020

Russia’s relationships with its client states have never been easy. Of course, managing client states is always a complicated exercise. The Kremlin’s cupboard is...

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U.S. Trade War Against China Takes a Coronaviral Turn

Released for Syndication: 05/01/2020

The anti-China fake news campaign about the COVID-19 pandemic fits into the larger war that the U.S. is waging against China. It taps into the deep reservoir of xenophobia and racism in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same

Released for Syndication: 04/28/2020

The upheavals in the oil market are flipping the world on its head and again proving that rational industrial policy is a better guidance.

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Why the OPEC+ Deal Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Released for Syndication: 04/17/2020

A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In...

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A World No Longer Shaped by Atlantic Powers

Released for Syndication: 02/28/2020

The annual Munich Security Conference that took place February 14-16 this year turned out to be an iconic event, drawing comparison with the one...

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How the Democrats Undermined Their Case for Impeachment by Dragging National Security into Their Case

Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020

In the summer of 2016, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t agree about much, except for one obscure issue of...

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