Posted by Matt in July 22nd, 2008 |
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Anti-Americanism,
Britain,
Europe,
Anti-Americanism,
Badness,
Belligerence,
Bush,
Carelessness,
Cavalier,
Comradeship,
Fairy Dust,
Fashion,
Fixity,
Goodness,
Hate America,
Manichaeism,
Myth,
Neoconservative,
Rapacity,
Sprinkling,
Sympathy,
Thinker
What makes America such an indispensable power is precisely what makes anti-Americanism inevitable
It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism - its division of the world into good and evil - themselves allocate all past badness to Bush and all prospective goodness to Obama. As the ever-improving [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 2nd, 2008 |
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Energy,
Russia,
10 Years,
Aggressive Growth,
Blush,
Capitalism,
Capitalization,
Ceo,
Cold-War,
Energy Companies,
Gas Monopoly,
gazprom,
Gazprom Russia,
June 27,
Laurels,
Lenin,
Monopoly,
Natural Gas,
Pound Gorilla,
Rapacity,
Russian Energy,
Trillion
At the height of the Cold War, the West feared the Soviet military. Now, it fears Russian energy companies, and the 800-pound gorilla of them all is Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas monopoly, currently the world’s third-largest company by capitalization.
Having absorbed capitalism with a rapacity that would make Lenin blush, Gazprom does not intend to rest [...]
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