Category: #Geopolitiks
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Soldiers, Selfies and Martial Law: Thailand’s Tourism Industry Suffers
from cnn.com: In most capital cities, waking up to images of armed soldiers, military vehicles and blockades on the streets — the result of an unexpected 3 a.m. announcement that the army has declared martial law — might be cause for alarm. But Bangkok isn’t your average city. Since 1932 — the year Thailand became…
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Russia and China Seal Historic $400bn Gas Deal
from RT.com: After 10 years of negotiations, Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world’s fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years. The total value of the contract is $400 billion, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said.…
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China Proposes Security Alliance To Counter U.S. Influence
from japantimes.com: China’s president called Tuesday for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the U.S. President Xi Jinping spoke at a meeting in Shanghai of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building measures in Asia (CICA), an obscure group that…
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Jury Unanimously Convicts Abu Hamza of All 11 Charges
from thenews.com.pk: A fiery British cleric accused of facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and setting up a terrorist training camp in the US was convicted by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges and faces a maximum prison sentence of life. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, who also went by the name of ‘Abu…
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Martial Law in Thailand: Bangkok Elites Facing Problem
from abc.net.au: Like most South East Asian nations, Thailand is changing. The standard of living, for many, is improving, the lower middle class is growing, access to internet and cable TV is increasing – and with it political awareness and a desire for a say among those who have never really had one. For the…
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Libya Mulls June Elections in Bid to Ease Crisis
What a US Military Evacuation in Libya Might Look Like* from dailystar.com.lb: Libya’s election commission proposed Tuesday holding a fresh round of parliamentary polls next month in a bid to find a peaceful resolution to a crisis triggered by a renegade general’s efforts to crush Islamist militias and his demand that the Islamist-led legislature disband…
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Food Crisis Worsens in South Sudan as Civil War Is Displacing Millions
from nytimes.com: At the beginning of the rainy season every year, Nyaaker Onwar, 34, would plant the sorghum and vegetables, while her husband and eldest son herded the cows and caught fish from the White Nile. They ate what they produced, and when the harvest was bountiful, they sold the rest in a nearby market…
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Global Raids Target ‘Blackshades’ Hacking Ring
from online.wsj.com: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and foreign police agencies have launched a series of raids around the world at the homes of people linked to a type of hacking software called Blackshades, according to posts on hacker forums and people familiar with the investigation.
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Russian History Is On Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself
from thedailybeast.com: So the international sanctions aren’t working—don’t worry! If 1,000 years of Russian screw-ups are anything to go by, it won’t be long before Vladimir Putin brings himself down. Now that we’ve failed to use Russia’s corrupt and degenerating economy, subservience to the international banking system, and vulnerability to falling energy prices to pop…
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#BringBackYourDrones: US Drones Search for Kidnapped Nigeria Girls
from time.com: White House officials confirmed that reconnaissance drones are now patrolling an area the size of West Virginia in a search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls… The United States has deployed drones to Nigeria to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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Eyeopener Report: China’s “War on Terror”
from boilingfrogspost.com: Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China’s control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy “Al Qaeda” terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan’s lawless border region and,…
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Iran Tells Pakistan: Beware of ‘Hands’ Sowing Rift Between Us
from dailytimes.com.pk: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday lambasted the US and ‘some other states’ for their attempts to create rift between Iran and Pakistan. “There are hands at work that intend to cause differences between the two friendly and intimate nations through different methods, including stirring insecurity at the lengthy common borders.…
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Voting Opens in Eastern Ukraine Poll
from smh.com.au: Voting opened across a swath of eastern Ukraine on Sunday morning in a separatist referendum, a wild venture in geopolitics that far outweighs its estimated cost – just $US1000 ($1068), according to rebel organisers.
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Resource rich countries lead global conflict and political violence index
from Strat Risks: Over the last six months, levels of conflict and political violence have jumped significantly in 48 countries as a consequence of popular revolutions and regime change, a study released reveals. In its latest conflict and political violence index, global risk analytics company Maplecroft analyzed 197 nations, placing the most risky at the…
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Corbett Report Interview: Rick Rozoff Calls Out the NATO Warmongers
from corbettreport.com: As Ukraine remains on a knife-edge of military tension, the NATO forces continue their Eastern European expansion and military provocations. In this must-listen interview, Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International breaks down the history of NATO’s global partnership program, its decades-long build-up in Eastern Europe, the people and organizations in whom the fate…