Economics

Pepsi to march in, as foreign troops leave Afghanistan

May 20, 2013

Source: Yahoo PepsiCo will open its first plant in Afghanistan in 2014, its Afghan partner said on Monday, the same year foreign troops complete their withdrawal from the country after 13 years of war. “It will go on stream in 2014,” Hamed Kakar, head of marketing for Dubai-based Alokozay, which has an exclusive bottling agreement with PepsiCo [...]

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Asia Is Becoming Israel’s New Frontier

May 14, 2013

Source: Forbes When we think of Israel, we usually think of the Middle East (its neighborhood), North America (its close ally the United States) and Europe (the long history of Ashkenazi Jews). Rarely do we think about Israel and Asia, even less about Asia as Israel’s new frontier. We don’t think of Asia as playing [...]

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Where is the world’s gold

May 1, 2013

Source: RK Mufti Mubashir History says Gold goes to where it is respected. 98 percent of Gold at Federal Reserve Bank of New York is owned by central bank of foreign nations and 2 percent is owned by United States of America. Germany holds more than 3,000 tons of gold bullion, which represents more than [...]

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BRICS:The Coming Challenge to U.S. Economic Dominance

April 22, 2013

Source: TFT Late last month, leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the so-called BRICS – announced they were forming their own development bank to assist other emerging economies. The yet-to-be-named bank is expected to compete with the World Bank and the International Monetary fund, two institutions with power structures based firmly [...]

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China and the Caribbean

April 5, 2013

Source: Caribbean Journal IT HAS BEEN NO SECRET that China has taken a strategic economic interest in the Caribbean region. China’s intention to expand its financial influence has been crystal clear — it is seeking new political alliances and new markets. Through grants, loans and large-scale investments, China seems to be out to earn political favor [...]

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Investors start a new scramble for Africa

February 7, 2013

Source: FT t is the ultimate in risk versus return. Hunters of investment exotica are heading to Africa, where some of the world’s riskiest markets are enjoying big gains. After trailing behind more mainstream markets for the better part of a decade, so-called frontier markets as defined by index provider MSCI have climbed more than [...]

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Ya Think …Terrorism may be just excuse for Western powers in Africa

January 30, 2013

Source: Global Times Mali may continue to be the epicenter of combat, death and French preoccupation for a foreseeable future. This means risks to multinational businesses and foreigners, which could play out across North and West Africa. Perhaps it could spread southward to Central and East Africa, the core of Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-linked [...]

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Egypt Military Chief Says Ongoing Conflict Could ‘Lead To The Collapse Of The State’

January 30, 2013

Source: IBT Egypt’s military chief warned Tuesday that the current unrest fueled by a political impasse could “lead to the collapse of the state.” The statement by Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who also serves as defense minister, followed the deployment of the Egyptian troops in Suez, where six people were killed in clashes with the [...]

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U.S. military strategic surge in Africa

January 5, 2013

Source: People’s Daily The United States is going to deploy troops in 35 countries in Africa. The 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. will start training in March of 2013 to make active preparation for the military deployment. What are the hidden motives behind the United States’ high-profile surge of troops [...]

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: U.S. military strikes against Iran a hazardous strategy

January 3, 2013

Source: Washington Post t is to be hoped that the forthcoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings regarding the president’s nominations for secretary of state and secretary of defense produce a wide-ranging debate regarding this country’s role in today’s very unsettled world. The hearings almost certainly will provoke searching questions regarding the strategic wisdom of potential [...]

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US intelligence agencies map China’s rise

December 27, 2012

Source: Arab News Earlier this month the US National Intelligence Council released its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report — a document that comes out once per presidential administration — mapping out likely geopolitical trends over the next two decades or so. As usual, it’s a must-read, offering comprehensive analysis of the disparate factors that [...]

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Currency Wars Expand Their Battlefield

December 22, 2012

Source:IBT When central bankers intervene and manipulate financial markets it distorts investment decisions and creates capital misallocations. The full effects of monetary easing will likely not be known for years, but some investors are taking caution ahead of time. The price of gold has been in decline over the past few weeks. Despite the Federal [...]

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Geopolitical Jitters May Dictate Course of World Economy

December 18, 2012

Source: Bloomberg 2012 was a year when politics at times trumped economic fundamentals, from worries about a break- up of the euro zone to anxiety about U.S. budget policy. In 2013, security concerns may do the same thing. In the Middle East, the U.S. and Israel are on a potential collision course with Iran over [...]

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National Intelligence Council see Asia overtaking America, Europe by 2030

December 10, 2012

Source: Abs-Cbn China’s economy is likely to surpass the United States in less than two decades while Asia will overtake North America and Europe combined in global power by 2030, a U.S. intelligence report said on Monday. “Meanwhile, the economies of Europe, Japan, and Russia are likely to continue their slow relative declines,” it said. [...]

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U.S. Security Strategy to Leverage Presence in the Asia-Pacific

November 30, 2012

Source: U.S. Department of Defense The new concept of readiness, according to Carter, involves preserving and building on the strength of the all-volunteer active duty, Guard and Reserve force developed during the last decade. “We wanted to retain [the force] and we wanted to respect it [with] no sudden changes as the war came to [...]

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Investors ready to go to Syria after collapse

November 21, 2012

Editors Notes: Deja Vu Related Article: An All Out Race for Corporations to Raid Libya with “Fixers” Source: Gulf News UAE-based Syrian businessmen will have investment worth $1 billion in Syria across different sectors in the post-Al Assad era, Esmail Al Saeedi, founder-member of the Syrian Development and Rescue Council told Gulf News on the [...]

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Turkish Minister dreams of Silk Road on Aegean

November 11, 2012

Source:Hurriyet Daily The western province of İzmir, one of the most industrialized Turkish cities, could be the center of Europe-Asia trade with the North Aegean Port, Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım said yesterday. The construction of the port is underway in the town of Candarlı and will create a “Silk Road of the sea,” Yıldırım [...]

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Armenia – NATO’s Foothold

November 7, 2012

Source: Lragir James Appathurai, the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, stated that NATO seeks to increase its presence in the South Caucasus. In addition, not only the statement itself is interesting but the fact that Appathurai made the [...]

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A Great Game Of Spear And Shield

November 6, 2012

Source: Outlook India South Asia contains one of America’s most important long-term partners in sustaining a global order safe for the interests and values of free societies, India, as well as a fragile, nuclear-armed state in Pakistan whose weakening and radicalisation could be more consequential for American security interests than nearly any other single contingency. [...]

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Pakistan allows transfer of strategic port to China

August 31, 2012

Source: Gulf News Islamabad: Pakistan will allow Singapore’s PSA International Pte to transfer control of a strategically important port to a Chinese company, a switch that may spark concerns in the US over China’s naval expansion plans. The Gwadar port in Pakistan’s western province of Baluchistan was built in 2007 with funding from the government [...]

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War With Iran Could Spark Global Depression

August 20, 2012

Editors Notes: A war with Iran will cover up the crimes perpetrated by the corrupt criminals controlling governments, banks and corporations – no it is not the Nazis. Source: NewsMax [...] Three more recently retired heads of Israeli intelligence — Mossad, Shin Bet, and the Israeli military — have spoken out to say that [...]

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Deep read: The rise of ChinAfrica

July 17, 2012

Source: Mail and Guardian If Francis Dalton were alive today, he would be revelling in the I-told-you-so of the new millennium. Cousin and colleague of the better-known Charles Darwin, Dalton proposed in 1873 that Britain should proactively pursue a strategic geopolitical shift: “Africa for the Chinese“. His idea was simple: Promote Chinese settlements in Africa [...]

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Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe

June 29, 2012

BELGRADE, Serbia —Pavle Mircov and his partner, Daniella, nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation: a buyer willing to pay nearly $40,000 for one of their kidneys. The couple, the parents of two teenagers, put their organs up for sale on a local online classified site six months ago after [...]

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Saudi readies oil line to counter Iran Hormuz threat

June 28, 2012

Source: Reuters The Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia (IPSA), laid across the kingdom in the 1980s after oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf by both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, has not carried Iraqi crude since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saudi Arabia confiscated the pipeline in 2001 to compensate for debts owed [...]

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Remember the Great Depression? No, it doesn’t seem that anyone does

June 18, 2012

Having failed in Britain, George Osborne now seems to want to dictate economic policy in the eurozone. He goes on about the “relentless logic” of the need for the eurozone to become a fiscal union, and he drops heavy hints that he believes they should start the revolution without Greece. The spectacle of a rightwing [...]

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Italy deploys police to protect 550 people after shooting

May 17, 2012

Source: AFP/Daily Nation Italy has deployed 2,000 officers to protect 550 people after the shooting of a nuclear company boss this month in an attack claimed by a violent anarchist group, the interior ministry said on Thursday. “There are a total of 14,000 at-risk targets protected by police forces using 18,000 officers. There are more [...]

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A policy of mass destruction: Western economists put former Soviet states on a road to bankruptcy and corruption.

March 29, 2012

Was it a ‘rapid and extensive privatization’ that caused mass economic destruction? Any country with any economic and finance interaction with International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and/or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) becomes a debt slave to the establishment. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Source: University of Cambridge A new analysis showing how [...]

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New Currency Brings Hope to Debt-Stricken City

March 16, 2012

All around Europe, governments are cutting back on spending in reaction to the euro crisis. But in one small city in Germany, locals are bucking the trend. Fed up with austerity, they are planning to spend more, not less, money — and they are making it themselves. The city of Oberhausen, in the German state [...]

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Treasury expected euro break-up

March 12, 2012

Source: The Age The federal Treasury was bracing for the break-up of the euro zone at the peak of the sovereign debt crisis and slammed Europe’s leaders for being ”consistently behind the curve” in their response, new documents show. According to internal briefing papers, Treasury officials viewed Europe’s currency union future as ”highly uncertain”. [...]

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