Mexico’s Instability Is a Real Problem

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Mexico, Assault Rifles, Civil Government, Collapse, Dance Clubs, Defense Planners, Drug Gangs, Drug Violence, Drug War, Extortion, Failed State, Fragmentation Grenades, Kidnappings, Locals, Mexican Vacation, Mexico, Mexico Vacation, Midst, Military Weaponry, Pakistan, Pentagon, Pentagon Study, Police Officers, Policeman, Risk, Rough And Tumble, Security Environment, Study Concludes That, Tijuana, Wholesale, Wsj

Don’t discount the possibility of a failed state next door.
Mexico is now in the midst of a vicious drug war. Police officers are being bribed and, especially near the United States border, gunned down. Kidnappings and extortion are common place. And, most alarming of all, a new Pentagon study concludes that Mexico is at risk [...]

Nuclear Weapons for All? The Risks of a New Scramble for the Bomb

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Proliferation, Barack Obama, Bomb Scare, Congressional Commission, Global System, Interim Report, Joseph Cirincione, North-Korea, Nuclear Arsenals, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Ploughshares Fund, Political Spectrum, Posture, Strategists, System Collapse, Terror Group, Tipping Point, Verge

The global financial order has been shaken. Could the global system to prevent nuclear proliferation be next?
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As Barack Obama becomes president, worry about just such a breakdown is mounting among nonproliferation specialists and foreign policy strategists across the political spectrum. Warns Joseph Cirincione, author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and [...]

Mexico: Televisa Becomes News as it is Attacked

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The Jan. 6 assault on Televisa’s offices was the latest in a series of attacks on Mexico’s media as the nation writhes in an orgy of drug-related bloodshed. Out of a record 5,300 deaths from beheadings, assassinations and massacres last year, eight of them were murdered Mexican journalists, making Mexico the most dangerous country for [...]

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Amazon.Com, general, 100 Year Forecast, 100 Years, Amazon, American Army, Austro Hungarian, Continent, Eastern Hemisphere, George Friedman, Global Financial Markets, Great Britain, Interdependence, Left Communism, Less Than Five Years, Living In London, Nazi Germany, Ottoman Empires, Peace Treaty, Periphery, Prosperous Europe, Soviet Union, Stratfor, Unprecedented Prosperity, World Europe

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By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
OVERTURE
An Introduction to the American Age
Imagine that you were alive in the summer of 1900, living in London, then the capital of the world. Europe ruled the Eastern Hemisphere. There was hardly a place that, if not ruled directly, was not indirectly controlled from a European capital. Europe was [...]