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ISIS/ISIL 2013-14
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL 2013-14

Alastair Crooke: You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia The dr ...

Russia in 2014
December 30, 2014, 4 Comments

Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Spared Prison in a Fraud Case, but His Brother Is Jailed (NYT) Hours after being spare ...

Iraq 2008-2014
December 25, 2014, Comments Off on Iraq 2008-2014

Amnesty International Iraq Crisis ISIS/ISIL The crisis in Iraq: Was the rise of ISIL a surprise?–– The legac ...

How to explain Putin’s methods and objectives?
December 8, 2014, Comments Off on How to explain Putin’s methods and objectives?

How He and His Cronies Stole Russia Book review by Anne Applebaum Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawis ...

Africa: Conflict and governance 2013 -2014
December 3, 2014, 1 Comment

3 December Fighting over the spoils of war Resources, resentment at heart of C.A.R. conflict By Benedict Moran (Al Jazee ...

Europe & EU 2014
December 1, 2014, 1 Comment

The European EU Observer New School of Athens (NSoA) Ukraine Watch as 1000 years of European borders change Sarko is bac ...

Syria 2013 – 2014
November 26, 2014, 8 Comments

Syria is the prototype place where it’s a proxy war for some regional powers. The camps, so to speak, are the regime i ...

Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014
November 22, 2014, Comments Off on Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014

Alastair Crooke You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Why sho ...

APEC 2014
November 15, 2014, Comments Off on APEC 2014

Behind the APEC Summit’s landmark deals (Fortune) China’s unexpectedly easy cooperation with the U.S. on climate cha ...

Ukraine 2014
November 2, 2014, 7 Comments

The Guardian Ukraine BBC World News Ukraine crisis Reuters World News Russia CIA World Factbook: Ukraine See also Russia ...

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