... be one of the more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being charged with a rather delicate balancing ... ... general business front, Russia will see issues dominating the Middle East and Africa at the top of the schedule: · developments ... ... Power. She has always held relatively adversarial positions toward Russia and recently made major headlines when she accused ... ... Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some of the highlights of her comments were rich ...
... that the American Dream for too many seems more myth than reality.
Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and even depressing situation: studies show a disturbing percentage ... ... century, making its reach and scope far beyond anything the West could ever think plausible.
Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that small percentage willing to abandon the ...
... from the U.S. has been long-standing. The refusal has been based on successive American ... ... the U.S. is purposely compromising its own security and risking the lives of its people?... ... openly courting this very behavior today. Middle East Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actually ... ... that the drone was not American, Chinese, or Russian: IDF claimed it to be an Iranian drone ... ... their own programs. The basic principles of foreign affairs dictate that America could ... ... is inconceivable to think a ‘drone war’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia or ...
... about President Obama’s intent to insult and offend, declaring that ‘it was important to keep things in perspective. Russia doesn’t make anything…Immigrants aren’t rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity. The life expectancy ... ... purpose by the ‘leader of the free world.’ So far this of course ignores the true point and purpose behind this war of words: President Obama is quite frankly flummoxed that President Putin has dismissively laughed off his positions, his ...
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The Antithesis matrix is not a predictor of where revolutions will happen. It is a reminder that societies embedded with multiple forms of social media have the potential to facilitate protest and civil disobedience if other factors on the ground warrant such behavior. It is also a reminder that those regimes where it is likely to have those motivating factors in place should not feel too overconfident in their ability to constrain or co-opt that social media-inspired mobilization: for the matrix ...