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The Journal’s Russia Scandal and Liesman

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Geopolitics, Markets

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Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some good news: Russia was going to emerge from the mess unscathed. While conceding that “few debt markets outside Southeast Asia were hit harder by recent financial turmoil [...]

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The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geopolitics

Politics at the global level – challenges facing the USA.

The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy
September 2, 2008

 By George Friedman
The United States has been fighting a war in the Islamic world since 2001. Its main theaters of operation are in Afghanistan and Iraq, but its politico-military focus spreads throughout the Islamic world, from Mindanao to Morocco. [...]

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