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As An Economic Crisis Deepens In Venezuela, Maduro’s Iron Fist Tightens
By Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig Since the death of Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s political leadership has moved from charisma to authoritarianism. Support for Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution has fallen from 65% when the populist leader died to 22% today. The revolution’s erstwhile steward is Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s current president and Chávez’s hand-picked successor. Maduro lacks his mentor’s extraordinary … Continue reading
China: Its Economic And Geopolitical Eurasian Strategy
By Gulam Asgar Mitha For several decades and centuries, the European and Asian colonial powers fought among themselves for control of foreign lands, cultures (predominantly language and religion) and economic gains resulting in mass killings and two devastating world wars on their soils that ended in the decline of several major world powers and the rise … Continue reading
New EU Energy Union Looks To Break Dependence On Russia
By Alina Yablokova and Global Risk Insights On February 25, the European Commission presented its Energy Union package of proposals, a first major step made by the European legislators to realise the strategy of coordinating the energy policies of the 28 EU member states. Indeed, the European Commission envisages a union that speaks with one voice … Continue reading
Venezuela’s Continuous Coup – OpEd
By Alfredo Lopez When Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma was arrested last week, charged with organizing and leading a coup, the U.S. State Department’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “The allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States is involved in coup plotting and destabilization are baseless and false. The United States does not support … Continue reading
The Real Story On Iran, U.S., Russia, And China – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar, Sputnik News The real story is, and will continue to be, how Iran, the key power in Southwest Asia, is about to be positioned in the nonstop complex ballet between the US, Russia and China. That’s one of the key vectors of the New Great Game in Eurasia. The real story was never … Continue reading
Lord Rothschild Warns Investors: Geopolitics Most Dangerous Since WWII
“The world now faces greater geopolitical risks than since the end of the Second World War as unemployment threatens European welfare and chaos engulfs the Middle East, Lord Rothschild warned investors in the £2.3 billion RIT* Capital fund,” RT reported today. World GDP grew at “a disappointing and uneven rate in 2014” following six years … Continue reading
Turkey Looks To Become Major Energy Hub
With Moscow declaring in the coming years that it will divert its gas supplies away from Ukraine and through Turkey to supply Europe, Ankara said it is a step closer to its goal of being a major gas hub. But critics point out Turkey still has many hurdles to overcome. By Dorian Jones The deepening crisis … Continue reading
Iran, China Moving Toward Strategic Relations
By Saeed Mohammadian More than four decades have passed since the establishment of official political relations between Iran and China. Although these effective players in East and West Asia have had longstanding relations as old as the history of the Silk Road, political and economic relations between the two countries have been sometimes criticized by Western … Continue reading
What The BRICS And Germany Are Really Up To – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill’s successor – the ‘Empire of Chaos’ – now faces the same quandary. Some wars – as in Ukraine, by proxy – are not going so well. And the loss of empire increasingly manifests itself … Continue reading
Damascus: Syria And Russia Discuss Boosting Economic Cooperation
“Primer Wael al-Halaqi discussed with Russian Ambassador in Damascus Alexander Kinschaka ways to activate the agreements signed between Syria and Russia” Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said. During the meeting which took place on Thursday, February 26th, the two nations discussed signing new agreements covering the following areas: electric power, drinking water, higher education, transport, … Continue reading
