Earlier this week several intelligence websites, among which Debkafile confirmed that Washington had Okayed the delivery of anti-tank missiles to Syria in a last attempt to militarily overpower President Bashar Al Assad’s armed forces, topple his regime and engineer the inception of a puppet government which will pledge allegiance to its western…

Ecological dilemmas are moving beyond the realm of local environmental, health and human population studies to a more dangerous transnational aspect of globalization – intelligence operations. It is in opening up an interaction between environmental studies’ liberal domain and intelligence studies’ realist domain, projecting onto…

Just after the results of the Crimean Referendum were made public, the White House ordered a new round of sanctions against a number of russian citizens and one bank believed to have played a central role in breaking the territorial integrity of Ukrain. The European Union issued similar measures, asset-freezings and VISA bans, shortly after against 21…

American drone utilization is predicated upon the exclusive and exceptional ability of the United States to dictate terms to all other countries and to assume that such technical dictatorship will continue on in perpetuity, thereby eliminating the need to be concerned about the lack of uniformity, transparency, and logical consistency in international…

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein




On begining of march Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee took part  in the South Stream Transport Supervisory Board meeting in Zurich (Switzerland). The Board…

Carnegie Moscow Center. – Moscow, 2013. 159 p   The book – consisting of 18 articles – describes Russian foreign policy and the domestic response to Russia’s international engagement in recent years. This book comes at a timely moment as Russian political and public discourses revolve around the nexus of democracy and…

These are the days of garment-rending. At least, this is likely the lament privately voiced by many in the corridors of American and European power. Obama’s recent trip to Europe to shore up greater resolve and commitment for strengthening sanctions and isolating (or is it shaming?) Russia after the Crimea annexation (or is it secession?) was…

As the Godfather of association football, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been implicated in major corruption scandals in the past. But this time with the investigation of Qatar and Russia the prize in this high stakes game could be his job.   Led by Michael Garcia, the former U.S. attorney general and prosecutor who was involved in the Victor…

 
By Anton Tsvetov

We have gathered here to honor the demise of Geopolitics. Friends just called it GP.
 
GP was good, GP was simple and comprehendible.
 
GP said that there is land. People live on land, plant crops and dig for mineral resources, which they desperately need. People form nations in order to control land. More…

In March18, 2014 in Berlin has been presented four scenarios of EU-Ukrainian relation that were developed by a team of 26 civil societies experts, academics and state workers across Ukraine. The event supported by European Council of Foreign Relation www.ecfr.eu   and Friedrich-Ebert Foundation www.fes.de and opened a discussion of…

Starting to heat up the internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) is a hacked telephone call last week between the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Nestor Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison, media darling Yulia…

Formerly shun by the public as a result of state propaganda and latent sectarianism under the old regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Houthis - a Shiite group which stronghold is originally based in the northern province of Sa’ada – have caught Yemen’s imagination by storm as they have come to symbolize freedom and unyielding…