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Predicting critical events, an institutional challenge.

... of late. Debka, a website with close ties to the Israeli defense and intelligence communities, posits that both Bandar and Kochavi made "miscalculations". Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics unless Putin ended his support for the Assad regime in Syria. Haaretz and Al Monitor reported ...

22.05.2014

Pugwash… The Contemporary Relevance Of The 1995 Nobel Peace Prize

... Edward Teller, Admiral Hyman Rickover, General Curtis LeMay and nuclear war theorist Herman Kahn are icons of the past. Today, even Iran is taking part in Pugwash discussions. Photo: University of California The cooperation between the United States and Russia which provides the institutional superstructure to facilitate Kerry-Lavrov and the Iran nuclear talks has its roots in the spirit of Pugwash, officially known as the Pugwash Conference On Science And World Affairs. Cyrus Eaton And The Rockefeller ...

29.11.2013

Future of Assad and Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party In Limbo As Syria Sitzkrieg Plays Out

... possibility that Israel holds an arsenal of nuclear weapons that can be used against them. For its part, Israel has signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, but refuses to ratify it or declare production facilities because of concerns they will be gassed ... ... in the background of all this is economic warfare, particularly the desire in Washington, Quatar and Saudi Arabia to reduce Russia’s footprint in the lucrative global liquid natural gas (LNG) market and oil markets . An article in the well-respected ...

15.09.2013

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