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Stratfor’s George Friedman Puts The Iranian Incursion in Context

Posted by Matt in December 21st, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Iran, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

According to George, the Iranian’s are telling us that it has options too. If we push too hard then the Iranians will start pushing back.
The Iranian missile tests are also hints about Iran’s ability to push back.
And so each waits, hoping the other side will back down. The events of the past week were designed [...]

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Russia: Potential for Crisis

Posted by Matt in October 29th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dr. George Friedman looks at potential turmoil in Russia’s power circles as a result of planned economic reforms. Also, a look ahead at key geopolitical events in the coming week.

Video Dispatch: A Crisis in the Kremlin
A plan to remake Russia’s economy threatens to unleash political infighting in Moscow — upsetting a balance that Prime Minister [...]

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Two Leaks and the Deepening Iran Crisis

Posted by Matt in October 5th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By George Friedman
Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter.
In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an unreleased report saying that Iran was much more advanced in its nuclear program than the IAEA [...]

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The Russian Economy and Russian Power

Posted by Matt in July 27th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
The Russian Resurgence
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Georgia and Ukraine partly answered questions over how U.S.-Russian talks went during U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Russia in early July. That Biden’s visit took place at all reaffirms the U.S. commitment to the principle that Russia does not have the [...]

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The Geopolitics of Pandemics

Posted by Matt in May 4th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Disease, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of Influenza A (H1N1) derived partly [...]

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Obama’s Strategy and the Summits

Posted by Matt in April 6th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Geopolitical, Turkey, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

One of the main reasons that Western European countries don’t particularly like the United States is that we won’t follow their lead. They are the leader and the United States must follow. We had trouble understanding that in the past, hence the Europeans hated us.
Enter Obama.
By George Friedman
The weeklong extravaganza of G-20, NATO, EU, U.S. [...]

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Stratfor Expert: China To Face Chaos

Posted by Matt in March 1st, 2009 | no comment 
Published in China, general, , , , , , , , , ,

Political scientist and author George Friedman tells Newsmax that Mexico will emerge later in this century as a major world power — while China could face “social chaos.”
He also warns that the U.S. will encounter increasing difficulties in supplying troops in Afghanistan who are fighting the Taliban.
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment 
Published in Amazon.Com, general, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Link to Amazon.Com
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 [...]

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The German Question

Posted by Matt in October 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By George Friedman

German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to St. Petersburg last week for meetings with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The central question on the table was Germany’s position on NATO expansion, particularly with regard to Ukraine and Georgia. Merkel made it clear at a joint press conference that Germany would oppose NATO membership for both [...]

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The Real World Order

Posted by Matt in August 18th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in general, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By George Friedman
On Sept. 11, 1990, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed Congress. He spoke in the wake of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, the weakening of the Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. He argued that a New World Order was emerging: “A hundred generations have searched [...]

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