Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 12.05.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceWe are at the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. That victory did not usher in an era of universal peace. Rather, it introduced a new constellation of powers and a complex balance among them. Europe's great powers and empires...
Vladimir Putin, 15 años entre Breznev y Stalin
Reportaje El Mundo, 07.05.2015 Xavier Colás, corresponsal extranjero en MoscúHace 15 años era lunes y en Moscú empezaba una semana y una era. Sonaron 30 salvas de cañón desde las murallas del Kremlin. Dentro, en el Salón de San Andrés, donde estuvo el trono de los zares, se 'coronaba' a Vladimir Putin, presidente interino desde aquel mes...
The New World Disorder
Artículo Counterpunch, 17/19.04.2015 Tariq Ali, historiador y escritor pakistaníThree decades ago, with the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the South American dictatorships, many hoped that the much talked about ‘peace dividend’ promised by Bush senior and Thatcher would actually materialise. No such luck. Instead, we have experienced continuous wars, upheavals, intolerance and fundamentalisms...
Weighing the Geopolitics of the Vietnam War
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 03.05.2015Summary South Vietnam's capital city, Saigon, fell to invading North Vietnamese troops on April 30, 1975. The image of an overloaded Huey helicopter on top of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, frantically loading refugees, was forever seared into the American mind. It was the ignominious end of more than a decade of involvement by the...