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The Military and the Academy

Sat, 07/05/2016 - 07:22
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Sat, 07/05/2016


Overcoming the Divide
By Thomas G. Mahnken
Christopher Sims’ “Academics in Foxholes: The Life and Death of the Human Terrain System” contributes to the ongoing debate about the U.S. military’s performance in Iraq and Afghanistan and, more specifically, the relationship between the U.S. government and the academy.

How the Kleptocrats’ $12 Trillion Heist Helps Keep Most of the World Impoverished

Thu, 05/05/2016 - 07:27
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Thu, 05/05/2016


An investigative economist has crunched 45 years of official statistics to discover just how much kleptocrats have plundered from 150 mostly poor nations.
For the first time we have a reliable estimate of how much money thieving dictators and others have looted from 150 mostly poor nations and hidden offshore: $12.1 trillion.

The Calm Before the Coming Global Storm

Wed, 04/05/2016 - 07:01
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Wed, 04/05/2016

By Pepe Escobar

Major turbulence seems to be the name of the game in 2016. Yet the current turbulence may be interpreted as the calm before the next, devastating geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.

World War III Has Begun

Tue, 26/04/2016 - 07:12
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Tue, 26/04/2016


By Paul Craig Roberts

"Information Clearing House" - The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage? Washington is currently conducting economic and propaganda warfare against four members of the five bloc group of countries known as BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

A Reply to Mearsheimer

Mon, 25/04/2016 - 09:27
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Mon, 25/04/2016

By Anna Cornelia Beyer
Realism is divided into defensive and offensive realism. Defensive realists, such as Kenneth Waltz, claim that states pursue only as much power as the states around them have. They don’t want to dominate the international system but merely to be able to survive. Offensive realism, proposed by John Mearsheimer, challenges this perspective and maintains that states want to dominate the international system, at least to the point of becoming a regional hegemon.

The Fourth Jihadist Wave

Mon, 25/04/2016 - 09:22
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Mon, 25/04/2016

 The Fourth Jihadist Wave
Project Syndicate, Carl Bildt
STOCKHOLM – Muscular language has become increasingly prevalent in the debate about how to counter the threat of jihadist terrorism. Television talk-show hosts speculate about when control of Raqqa in Syria or Mosul in Iraq might be wrested from the Islamic State (ISIS), implying that these cities’ liberation will mark, at the very least, the beginning of the end of the problem. And in December, Ted Cruz, a Republican contender in the US presidential race, went so far as to raise the specter of nuclear strikes: “I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out,” he said.

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