February, 2022

• 22 February

  The Ukraine Crisis And Great Power Rivalry In The Balkans

  

  Moscow still has the initiative in a crisis it provoked but apparent Russian failure so far to engineer a phony “internal” Ukrainian opposition leaves the situation literally on a knife’s edge. Russian propaganda is attempting to claim victory already by portraying post-Afghanistan America as “exhausted” but Moscow has struggled to …

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• 22 February

  Global Oil Balance Is Much Tighter Than Believed

  

  Last week’s events will be remembered for many reasons but for us, the major market mover was the International Energy Agency’s admission that global oil demand is wickedly higher than what the agency was willing to admit previously. Why did it take so long for the agency to reconcile its …

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• 22 February

  Handling The Ukraine Crisis: A Geopolitical Perspective – Analysis

  

  With the Ukraine crisis increasingly acute, there is growing danger of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, involving a significant possibility of escalating into a full-scale war between Russian and the NATO. At the core of the crisis is how to strike an agreement on durable geopolitical order to which Ukraine is …

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• 22 February

  The Keep Africa Poor And Dependent Project

  

  Exploited and abused for generations by white colonial powers and manipulative economic structures, there is a growing feeling of solidarity within parts of the African continent, as exemplified by the #NoMore movement. Covid vaccine inequality and environmental injustice, together with recent events in Ethiopia have galvanized people.

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• 22 February

  Assad Flogs Off Stolen Syrian Lands To The Ayatollahs

  

  A ground-breaking initiative has been launched to expose Syrian crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court. For the first time, a primary focus is the culpability of Iran and its proxies. Lawyers have said that Tehran’s support for Assad had come “at the cost of hundreds of thousands of …

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• 22 February

  Get Dirty Or Die Trying

  

  Introduction In this paper, I will attempt to analyze the downward trend of collective intelligence among Ethiopia’s political leaders and elites. (1) The analysis covers a historical period that begins with the reign of Emperor Menelik II (2) (r. 1889–1913) until the premiership of Abiy Ahmed (since 2018). The study …

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• 22 February

  Ukraine: The Victim Of Western Alliances

  

  The Ukraine crisis, similar to Brexit, is a vivid demonstration of the shaky nature of unions and alliances in Europe. This is not good news for the United States as it is determined to concentrate domestically and curb the rise of China. Putin’s determination to attack Ukraine also lies in …

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• 22 February

  Economic-Philosophy, Policy Science And Ideology – Analysis

  

  Discourses around economic policy in India seem to be taking different directions, many motivated by political ideologies and others by empirical facts and their interpretations, which again are not always entirely detachedfrom ideologies. However, what appears lacking is a totalizing coherency that renders these discourses accessible to the larger public, …

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• 22 February

  Is NATO A Dead Man Walking?

  

  While geopolitical commentators are fixated on Russia’s border with Ukraine, a more interesting development is slowly boiling underneath the surface of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that could potentially reorder international relations—namely, the death of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Founded in 1949, NATO began with only twelve member nations. Presently, …

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• 22 February

  Ukraine: People Fleeing Occupied Luhansk Describe Growing Fear, Confusion – Analysis

  

  When the war first broke out eight years ago, Natalya, 28, just hid in the basement when the gunfire and artillery bombardments came too close. “Now it’s different. Now I fear for the children,” she said, holding her 3 1/2-year-old son and 5 1/2-year-old daughter by the hand as she …

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