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Michael T. Klare

China
Tripolarity:  Are Trump, Putin & Xi Divvying up the World?

Tripolarity: Are Trump, Putin & Xi Divvying up the World?

Michael T. Klare

The pundits and politicians generally take it for granted that President Trump lacks a coherent foreign policy. They believe that he acts solely out of spite, caprice, and political opportunism — lashing out at U.S. allies like Germany’s Angela Merkel and England’s Theresa May only to embrace authoritarian rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North […]

China
As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?

As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?

Michael T. Klare

From Beijing, the strategic outlook articulated by Secretary of Defense James Mattis is clearly viewed as threatening

Donald Trump
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War:  a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

Michael T. Klare

It’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean

China
Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?

Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?

Michael T. Klare

( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, […]

Donald Trump
Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe

Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe

Michael T. Klare

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every great power has sought to mobilize the energy resources at its command, whether those be slaves, wind-power, coal, or oil, to further its hegemonic ambitions. What makes the Trumpian variant […]

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