Search: United States (52 materials)

 

Brazil's impending governability crisis

... Dilma's new communications minister can't hide the fact that Brazil's economy is in big trouble. Jason Furman, chairman of president Obama's Council of Economic Advisers said recently that Brazil shouldn't count on the United States. Folha and other Brazilian media are starting to frame the story as a “governability crisis.” After thirteen years of Workers' Party government servicing the debt to finance the social programs enacted by Dilma and ...

05.07.2015

Brinkmanship for useful idiots

... leaked "secret study" The attack on Putin's character are where the leaked secret Pentagon study, obtained and publicized by CBS News comes into play. CBS has been, historically, an important propaganda asset of the government of the United States dating back to World War II.. The study reveals that the United States since 2008 has been at work creating the image of Russian president Vladimir V. Putin as an unstable leader with a genetic history of mental illness. If one is ...

10.06.2015

Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part I

A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy, As Opposed to Republican Nonsense: Part I: Introduction, Muslim World Reset, Iraq, Israel/Palestine If you can’t understand that Obama’s overall Middle East strategy is starting to work, you don’t know what you’re talking about By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) May 21st, 2015 Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse here and also published by Stupidparty Math v. Myth thanks to Patrick...

07.06.2015

There Is No Logical Argument Against the Iran Nuclear Deal

... invasion since this regime took power. Yes, it has used terrorism and non-state militia actors to further its interests, but so has pretty much every Middle Eastern country (including American allies like Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia) as well as the United States in recent decades. Iran has also cooperated with the U.S. against the Talbian, al-Qaeda, and, most recently, against ISIS. And Iran’s foreign policy record has been less the unpredictable, dangerous type and more like the Soviet Union’s,...

29.05.2015

Sports Diplomacy. Can Sepp Blatter bring unity to a fractious FIFA?

... french national team star says he is satisfied being president of UEFA and that he has no plans to challenge Blatter's leadership at this time. Seemingly immune from the media campaign conducted by ethics assets, including FIFA officials in the United States and Britain, Platini has artfully dodged accusations that he supported Qatar's bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, based on the suggestion of former french president Nicholas Sarkozy. Will ethics advocates steal Blatter's ...

04.04.2015

A Reality Check on U.S.-Russian Relations: Not Time to Relax, but Not Time to Panic, Either

By Brian E. Frydenborg, February 26th, 2015 (updated February 27th-28th) Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse here If you think your site or another would be a good place for this content please do not hesitate to reach out to me! Please feel free to share and repost on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (you can follow me there at @bfry1981) One of the sad things about looking at current commentary about Russia, America, and the state of their relationship is the lack of measured and reasoned...

27.02.2015

The Ferguson Intifada, or Why African-Americans are America’s Palestinians

If white Americans and Israeli Jews want African-Americans and Palestinians to cease with the ruckus, they must make their own societies and governments cease systematically bringing the ruckus to these darker-skinned neighbors of theirs. By Brian E. Frydenborg, originally published January 7th, 2015 If you think your site or another would be a good place for this content please do not hesitate to reach out to me! Please feel free to share and repost on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (you...

02.02.2015

Facebook and “The Decline of Power”... A treatise for useful idiots.

... Fund, continue to be power players as they mediate the shifting sands of global economics. Bill Clinton will probably be an important traditional power broker and fund raiser for his wife, Hillary, in her campaign to become the next president of the United States. Zuck's latest choice “The End of Violence” “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Canadian psychologist Stephen Pinker is the latest choice by the Facebook Book Club. It's sales will no doubt increase ...

26.01.2015

In Time, Expect Big Changes in America's Middle East Relationships

When It Comes to U.S. Relationships in the Middle East, Expect a Lot More Change in Coming Years and Decades. By Brian E. Frydenborg, originally published January 5th, 2015 If you think your site or another would be a good place for this content please do not hesitate to reach out to me! Please feel free to share and repost on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (you can follow me there at @bfry1981) 2014 has certainly been a year of change. While an ostensible explanation for this would be the...

19.01.2015

Why Isn’t Anyone Giving Obama Credit for Ousting Maliki?

How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle Originally published Nov. 2nd, 2014 How Did It Come To This? At some point during Obama’s second term of his presidency, he and his Administration realized that Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. It did not help that when the administration realized this, violence in Iraq was increasing to levels not seen since the height of the near-civil-war experienced in 2006-2007 during...

13.01.2015
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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