Print John J. Xenakis Read Full Bio World View: France, Germany Hostile After 50 Years of Political Unity Hollande suspects that Germany is using the budget issue as an excuse to gain European dominance. Merkel is demanding the EU's right to intervene in national budgets, which Hollande firmly rejects. 23 Oct 2012 World View: Hizbollah Launching Rocket Attacks into Syria Reports indicate that the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah is fully engaged in the Syrian conflict, and is launching rocket attacks into Syria in support of the regime of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. Residents of the targeted area say that the attacks began six weeks ago and are getting heavier. 21 Oct 2012 World View: U.S. Aircraft Carrier and Vietnam Show Force in South China Sea The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington cruised through the South China Sea on Saturday, in a show of force to counter China's claim to the entire region. China is demanding sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, including areas historically belonging to other countries, and has established a military base in the Paracel Islands to be able to use its vast military power to enforce its demands militarily. 21 Oct 2012 World View: Lebanon Bombing Stokes Fears of Wider Mideast War The reluctance of the West in general and Turkey in particular to intervene militarily to try to end Syria's conflict is based on the fear that military intervention would trigger a widespread Mideast war. However, Friday's bombing in Beirut is bringing many people to the conclusion that it's the reluctance to intervene that's allowing the Syrian conflict to spill over into neighboring countries, threatening to trigger exactly that widespread Mideast war. 19 Oct 2012 World View: Nationalism and Neo-Nazi Violence Increase Across Europe Proceedings in the Greek parliament were disrupted Thursday when Eleni Zaroulia of the far right Golden Dawn party, an MP and member of a Council of Europe anti-discrimination committee, described immigrants as subhumans. 19 Oct 2012 World View: Are Iranian Sanctions Harming Civilians and Accomplishing Nothing? The sanctions provide a method for "kicking the can down the road," and allowing politicians in Israel, America and Europe to say that they're doing something, without having to declare war. But in terms of their stated objectives -- to force Iran to end its nuclear program, and to do so without harming civilians -- they're useless failures. 18 Oct 2012 World View: Tensions Grow Between Turkey and Kurds in Syria The firing between Turkish troops and Syrian troops across the Turkey/Syria border may well be a potential war, but it's not the worst war that Turkey is worried about. There has been a low-level conflict almost continuously since 1984 between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose goal is an independent state of Kurdistan. 17 Oct 2012 World View: England, Scotland Agree to Referendum on Scottish Independence What is being described as a "historic agreement," Britain's prime minister David Cameron, and head of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Alex Salmond signed a deal agreeing to allow Scots to make an "irrevocable" vote in October 2014 to decide whether Scotland should become independent of the United Kingdom. 16 Oct 2012 World View: Possible Nato Invasion of Syria Revives Iraq's WMDs Debate A major ideological battle is starting to erupt over the question of whether Syria's chemical weapons were sent from Iraq by Saddam Hussein just prior to the American ground invasion in 2003. It's known that Iraq had WMDs in the 1980s and 1990s, and most intelligence services around the world believed that Saddam continued to do so in 2003. 15 Oct 2012 World View: Huawei Scandal Exposes Potential 'Cyberwar Pearl Harbor' from China For years, people have been telling me that the predictions of war by Generational Dynamics are certainly wrong because businessmen would prevent these wars from occurring and harming their businesses. This was always a moronic argument, but the conflict between China over the Senkaku/Diayou islands emphasizes what really happens. China's levels of nationalism and xenophobia towards the Japanese have reached astronomical levels. 14 Oct 2012 Previous 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next
World View: France, Germany Hostile After 50 Years of Political Unity Hollande suspects that Germany is using the budget issue as an excuse to gain European dominance. Merkel is demanding the EU's right to intervene in national budgets, which Hollande firmly rejects. 23 Oct 2012
World View: Hizbollah Launching Rocket Attacks into Syria Reports indicate that the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah is fully engaged in the Syrian conflict, and is launching rocket attacks into Syria in support of the regime of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. Residents of the targeted area say that the attacks began six weeks ago and are getting heavier. 21 Oct 2012
World View: U.S. Aircraft Carrier and Vietnam Show Force in South China Sea The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington cruised through the South China Sea on Saturday, in a show of force to counter China's claim to the entire region. China is demanding sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, including areas historically belonging to other countries, and has established a military base in the Paracel Islands to be able to use its vast military power to enforce its demands militarily. 21 Oct 2012
World View: Lebanon Bombing Stokes Fears of Wider Mideast War The reluctance of the West in general and Turkey in particular to intervene militarily to try to end Syria's conflict is based on the fear that military intervention would trigger a widespread Mideast war. However, Friday's bombing in Beirut is bringing many people to the conclusion that it's the reluctance to intervene that's allowing the Syrian conflict to spill over into neighboring countries, threatening to trigger exactly that widespread Mideast war. 19 Oct 2012
World View: Nationalism and Neo-Nazi Violence Increase Across Europe Proceedings in the Greek parliament were disrupted Thursday when Eleni Zaroulia of the far right Golden Dawn party, an MP and member of a Council of Europe anti-discrimination committee, described immigrants as subhumans. 19 Oct 2012
World View: Are Iranian Sanctions Harming Civilians and Accomplishing Nothing? The sanctions provide a method for "kicking the can down the road," and allowing politicians in Israel, America and Europe to say that they're doing something, without having to declare war. But in terms of their stated objectives -- to force Iran to end its nuclear program, and to do so without harming civilians -- they're useless failures. 18 Oct 2012
World View: Tensions Grow Between Turkey and Kurds in Syria The firing between Turkish troops and Syrian troops across the Turkey/Syria border may well be a potential war, but it's not the worst war that Turkey is worried about. There has been a low-level conflict almost continuously since 1984 between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose goal is an independent state of Kurdistan. 17 Oct 2012
World View: England, Scotland Agree to Referendum on Scottish Independence What is being described as a "historic agreement," Britain's prime minister David Cameron, and head of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Alex Salmond signed a deal agreeing to allow Scots to make an "irrevocable" vote in October 2014 to decide whether Scotland should become independent of the United Kingdom. 16 Oct 2012
World View: Possible Nato Invasion of Syria Revives Iraq's WMDs Debate A major ideological battle is starting to erupt over the question of whether Syria's chemical weapons were sent from Iraq by Saddam Hussein just prior to the American ground invasion in 2003. It's known that Iraq had WMDs in the 1980s and 1990s, and most intelligence services around the world believed that Saddam continued to do so in 2003. 15 Oct 2012
World View: Huawei Scandal Exposes Potential 'Cyberwar Pearl Harbor' from China For years, people have been telling me that the predictions of war by Generational Dynamics are certainly wrong because businessmen would prevent these wars from occurring and harming their businesses. This was always a moronic argument, but the conflict between China over the Senkaku/Diayou islands emphasizes what really happens. China's levels of nationalism and xenophobia towards the Japanese have reached astronomical levels. 14 Oct 2012
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