Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010 – Yahoo! News

Posted by Matt in December 31st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Mexico, 2010, 2012, Ancient Mayas, Anxiety, Centennial, Decade, Mexican History, Mexican Revolution, Mexicans, Mexico History, Sky, War Of Independence, Yahoo, Yahoo News

Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky’s actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it’s 2010, Mexico’s bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating itself. Mexico’s 1910 centennial, after all, saw the start of the bloody, decade-long Mexican Revolution, which killed [...]

Oil – Hope and anxiety

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Oil, Anxiety, Barrel Oil, Brazil, China, Decades, Dollar, Downturn, Economic News, Economists, Emerging Economies, Global Supply, India, Norm, Oil Price, Oil Prices, Seven Months

THE price of a barrel oil went past $68 during the day on Monday June 1st, the highest level in seven months. Although this remains less than half the peak of last July, prices are likely to remain above the norm of the past few decades, lifted with every bit of cheery economic news and [...]

U.S. may seek to base missile shield in Lithuania

Posted by Matt in June 19th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Europe, Missiles, Anti-ballistic missile, Anxiety, Financial Times, Lithuania, Missile Base, Missile Shield, Missile-Defense, moscow, Negotiations, New York Times, News Articles, Poland, Soviet Union, United States, Voice Of America, Xinhua

Poland is balking at further negotiations with the United States over plans to deploy an anti-ballistic missile shield, prompting Washington to seek out Lithuania, formerly part of the Soviet Union, as a possible location for the interceptors, officials said Wednesday.
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‘Anxiety’ in Moscow over US-Lithuania missile base talks Financial Times
US talks missile defense with Vilnius [...]

The Rise of the Rest (The Post-American World)

Posted by Matt in May 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, Military, Nuclear, Russia, Amazon Asin, Anxiety, Aristophanes, Charge Americans, China, China Threat, Distant Lands, Fear, Globalization, Lead, Living Memory, Russia, Russia Threat, Taipei, Tallest Building, Terrorism, United States, Whirl, World, Zeus

It’s true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead. American anxiety springs from something much deeper, a sense that large and disruptive forces are coursing through the world. [...]

Rearming the world

Posted by Matt in April 27th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Russia, SCO, Alliances, Amazon Asin, Anxiety, Armed Forces, Arsenals, Autocracies, Cold-War, Conventional Weapons, Decades, Fanfare, Heritage Foundation, International Peace Research, Islamic World, Military Expansion, Nation States, Natural Resources, Navies, New Reality, Peace Research Institute, Radical Islamists, Regional Conflict, SCO, Scope, Stockholm International, Violent Struggle

Why nations are suddenly locked in an arms race unseen since the early days of the Cold War
But the exercise highlighted an alarming new reality. With much less fanfare than the early days of the Cold War, the world is entering a new arms race, and with it, a dangerous new web of military relationships. [...]