This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. US officials meet with representatives of Libya’s Gaddafi Pro-government demonstrators express their support for Libyan leader al-Gaddafi The US State Department has confirmed that US officials have held face to face talks with representatives
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. and Vietnam launch joint naval exercises amid tensions with China Col. Nguyen Van Lam, center, greets U.S. Rear Admiral Tom Carney with flowers on Friday (Reuters) The U.S. and Vietnam launched a series
The “National Salvation Congress,” a Saturday meeting of representatives of the opposition to the regime of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, failed to form a shadow government, because of factional differences. Unidentified Syrian opposition activists chatting in Istanbul on Saturday Friday
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China slams Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama says to President Obama: ‘My Nobel Peace Prize is bigger than your Nobel Peace Prize!’ China accused the United States on Sunday of “grossly”
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. EU president calls emergency summit for Thursday Greece 2yr (33.1%), Italy 10yr (5.8%), 7/15/2011 It’s been another chaotic week for the European Union finance ministers, as the debt crisis has measurably worsened every day.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Obama agrees to support Russia’s bid to end Libya action with mediation Medvedev and Obama meeting in Moscow in 2009 (AP) President Barack Obama will support the mediation attempt by Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev
From the point of view of generational theory, a crisis era turns into a crisis war between two countries following a series of shocks and surprises, with each side crossing some kind of “red line,” and the other side making
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. New terrorist attack in Mumbai, India Police at Opera House bombing site in Mumbai At least 21 people were killed and more than 140 were injured in three coordinated bomb blasts set off by
European Union officials continue to be in a panic, after the Greek “contagion” spread to Italy this week. After Greece, Ireland and Portugal were forced in the last year to beg for bailouts just to survive, it now appears that
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Assassination of Karzai’s brother creates Afghanistan power vacuum Ahmad Wali Karzai The most powerful political figure in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, was assassinated in his home
Hundreds of supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, spray-painting walls with obscenities. Graffiti referring to American ambassador Robert Ford said, “”Ford get out now. The people want to kick out the dog,”
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China criticizes South China Sea drills in Mike Mullen’s visit China’s General Chen Bingde greets Admiral Mike Mullen in Beijing on Monday (Xinhua) In recent weeks, the United States has conducted joint naval exercises
Hundreds of people lined Sarajevo’s main street on Saturday, as trucks bearing 613 coffins carrying victims’ remains pass through to Srebrenica, where the victims of Europe’s worst massacre since World War I will be buried, according to AP. The 613
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Emergency EU meeting on Monday will discuss crisis in Italy Italy 10-year bond yields (Bloomberg) A sharp spike in Italy’s bond yields (interest rates) on Friday, combined with the fact that Italy has the
The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is fuming because the U.S. amabassador to Syria, Robert Ford, visited the city of Hama on Friday, and was joined by France’s ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, according to Reuters. The two of them
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Karachi crawls back to life Karachi crawls back to life After five days of political and ethnic violence that resulted in the deaths of 98 people and 150 wounded, police and paramilitary forces claimed
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the U.S. economy created a net of only 18,000 new jobs in June. This was far lower than the 100,000 to 150,000 or more that mainstream economists had been predicting.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Half a million people protest in Hama, Syria Protests in Hama on Friday (AFP) Despite a bloody, brutal assault on the city of Hama by Syrian security forces earlier this week, half a million
In 2005, someone asked me: “John, when can you ever be wrong? You’ve said that there’s going to be a financial crisis, but when it doesn’t occur, you just say that it hasn’t happened yet. So when can you ever
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel’s airport gears up for ‘Welcome to Palestine’ activists Israeli police deploy at Tel Aviv airport on Thursday Israel braced on Thursday for the anticipated arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists at Ben Gurion
President Barack Obama’s recent announcement of an unexpectedly rapid drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan is producing a bitter reaction in Pakistan to the effect that America makes promises but, once again, is ignoring its promises and abandoning its allies,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Rebels make gains in western Libya Rebel fighters in training Fighting is still going on in Libya. Rebels captured the town of al-Qawalish in western Libya from Gaddafi supporters after a six hour battle.
Denmark began on Tuesday to station 50 new customs agents on the country’s borders with Germany and Sweden, to implement the new “permanent border control” law that the parliament had passed on Friday by a single vote (90 to 89).
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Germany’s Constitutional Court to decide legality of bailouts Germany’s Constitutional Court Another potential problem for the EU’s plans to bail out Greece arose on Tuesday as Germany’s Constitutional Court began hearings on the legality
Standard & Poor’s rating service on Monday said that the bailout proposal by French banks (the so-called ‘French Model’) would prompt a “selective default” rating on Greek debt, according to Bloomberg, effectively sinking the plan. (We’re not talking about the
