America, the fragile empire – latimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Niall Ferguson, Armageddon, Central And Eastern Europe, Collapse Of The Soviet Union, empire, Hindsight, Historian, Historians, Imperium, Lenin, Less Than Five Years, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oil Prices, Political Scientist, Precipitous Decline, Soviet Nuclear Arsenal, Soviet System, Soviets, Stephen Kotkin, Stockpile, Third World

The most recent and familiar example of precipitous decline is the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the benefit of hindsight, historians have traced all kinds of rot within the Soviet system back to the Brezhnev era and beyond. Perhaps, as the historian and political scientist Stephen Kotkin has argued, it was only the high [...]

Burma’s bomb – Washington Times

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

Published in Asia, Nuclear, Build A Bomb, Burma, Editorial, Laing, Less Than Five Years, Military Government, Military Junta, Nuclear Reactor, Peaceful Uses, Testimony, Washington Times, weapons

Burma is the latest case. In 2007, the military junta that runs the country confirmed that it was developing a 10-megawatt nuclear reactor with Russian help, claiming the program was for peaceful uses only. But according to reports last week in the Australian press based on defector testimony, the military government maintains a secret underground [...]

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 [...]