This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Obama to announce Afghanistan troop withdrawal, as war support falls Sharp rise in number backing U.S. Troop Pullout (Pew) On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama will announce the withdrawal of some of the 100,000
Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas are supposed to have reconciled for the first time since they were at war in 2008, But the reconciliation has been fraught with problems. And now, the participants have canceled a high profile meeting scheduled
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria’s al-Assad gives speech that infuriates protesters Bashar al-Assad gives speech on Monday On Monday, in a nationally televised address that lasted over an hour in front of a crowd of cheering supporters at
Syria is moving tanks and soldiers into villages near the border to Turkey, in order to stop the flow of Syrian refugees into Turkey, according to AP. A Turkish woman talks to a relative, a Syrian refugee, through a fence
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Eurogroup unexpectedly fails to approve next Greece bailout payment George Papandreou speaking passionately to Greek Parliament (Kathimerini) As thousands of self-proclaimed “Indignant” demonstrators staged peaceful protests outside the Parliament in Athens, Greece’s Prime Minister
In August 2009, violent fighting between Burma’s army and rebels from the Kokang ethnic group sent tens of thousands of Kokang villagers across the border into China. China allowed this because the Kokang are a Han-Chinese minority. Beijing heavily condemned
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Union members march through Athens and protest austerity measures Communist party protesters in Athens, Saturday (AP) Several thousand pro-Communist union members marched through central Athens yesterday to protest the government’s latest austerity measures and
Friday was another one of those Alice in Wonderland days where all you can do is shake your head in disbelief at the absurd lengths to which desperate European politicians are going. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy after Friday’s meeting
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Taiwan sides with U.S. against China over South China Sea policy Taiping Island In a change of police that’s sure to infuriate Beijing, Taiwan now supports the U.S. position on “freedom of navigation” in
At this week’s meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iran was the major topic of discussion among the foreign ministers of the six Arab member nations (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait). GCC meeting in Jeddah
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Short-term bailout of Greece is now expected Greece 2 year bonds at 30% interest (Bloomberg) The yields (interest rates) on Greece’s 2 year bonds briefly exceeded 30% on Thursday, before settling down at just
After a day of chaos, the situation is deteriorating rapidly in the streets of Athens, in the Greek parliament, and among the finance ministers in Brussels. Anti-austerity rioting in Athens on Wednesday (AP) Early on Wednesday, angry youths hurled petrol
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Thailand heads for a major election crisis Yingluck Shinawatra (Spiegel) The fault line between the élite fair-skinned market dominant minority Thai-Chinese and the dark-skinned indigenous Thai-Thai majority laboring class may soon become violent again,
Syria pursues scorched earth policy, amid rumors of U.S. military intervention As thousands of families in northern Syria flee from their homes, many across the border into Turkey, army tanks widened the military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Anti-government protesters flood Yemen’s cities Female protester with Arabic words ‘The Revolution Youths’ on her hands (AP) Hundreds of thousands of Yemen protesters demonstrated in nearly every major city of the country on Tuesday,
Hey kids, what time is it? It’s time to revisit the “Principle of Maximum Ruin.” The same principle applies today to America, to Europe and to China. If you listen to TV or read the newspaper, then you know that
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Vietnam escalates South China Sea dispute with China Anti-China protesters in front of the Chinese embassy in Hanoi (AFP) Vietnam’s navy has conducted live-fire artillery drills off the country’s central coast, in a challenge
On Saturday, some 10,000 protesters crowded Pearl Square in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, for the first mass protest since March, according to AP. There was little regime violence when compared to past massacres, but even so, the Fédération Internationale
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pro-Assad crowd attacks Turkey’s embassy in Damascus Syrian refugees living in tents in refugee camp in Yayladagi, Turkey (Reuters) Some 2,000 supporters of the Assad regime in Syria ralliedon Sunday near Turkey’s embassy in
The move to ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders is being questioned within the Palestinian Authority itself. Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Hillary Clinton (from last year). In the back is a picture
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Military assault on north Syrian town begins Syrian army approaches Jish al-Shughour (AP) The anticipated Syrian military assault on the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, near Turkey’s border, began on Saturday. Although much of
At a Nato meeting in Brussels on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, in effect, that the Truman Doctrine that’s guided American foreign policy since it was formulated by President Harry Truman in 1947 has ended. President Harry
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Turkey’s PM Erdogan reverses position on Syria Map of Jisr al-Shughour in Syria and Yayladagi in Turkey Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now condemned, in the harshest terms, the man he used
Vietnam has reported that China on Thursday of intentionally rammed and damaged a Vietnamese research ship operating within Vietnamese waters, in a “premeditated” incident, according to Bloomberg. The attacked ship was a survey ship operated by Vietnam Oil & Gas
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Nato says that air campaign will now directly target Gaddafi in Libya The U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the humanitarian mission in Libya says that “all necessary measures” could be used to protect civilians.
