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Since the inception of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the United States and its allies have half-heartedly executed military intervention operations against the Qaddafi regime. Numerous nation states immediately signed on with this operation pressuring the United States to eventually commit. This

Politicians scrambled to lie and point fingers, as they tried to figure out how to make sure that someone else was blamed for the plunge on world markets on Thursday. It was a truly vomit-inducing spectacle. Jose Manuel Barroso On

Mainstream economists and analysts expected the stock market to rise on Tuesday, after the uncertainty about raising the debt ceiling was resolved by a bill passed by Congress. Instead, stocks on Wall Street fell 2%. As usual, mainstream economists were

On a story posted at 6:04 am on Friday morning, the Washington Post said, “The consensus forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg is that GDP rose at a 1.8 percent annual rate in the second quarter [from april to June],

European leaders have long expressed confidence that the US would find a resolution to its ongoing debt impasse. But now there is growing concern that it won’t, according to Spiegel. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says, “Everyone in the US

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel considers revoking the 1993 Oslo accords Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signing the Oslo Accords in 1993 (Reuters) Israel’s National Security Council is discussing the option of revoking

Almost lost in official Washington’s preoccupation with the partisan slug-fest over raising the debt ceiling and reducing the deficit was the despicable, murderous attack in Norway on Friday. Unfortunately, such inattention increases the likelihood that the wrong lessons will be

Part of Adonis G.B.’s body hanging from the landing gear Last week an Iberia Airliner left Havana, landed in Madrid and found an obviously desperate Cuban stowaway. The 23 year old Cuban man named Adonis G.B. was curled in the

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.

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. 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

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

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

Will the Fourth of July become a vanishing holiday? That thought came to mind when I read of a May 2011 study by Harvard academics titled “Shaping the Nation: Estimating the Impact of Fourth of July Using a Natural Experiment.”

From the Navy Times: “Air Force and Navy aircraft are still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya despite the Obama administration’s claim that American forces are playing only a limited support role in the NATO operation. An Africa Command

From Foreign Policy: The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops

Prime minister George Papandreou won a vote of confidence by a vote of 155 to 143 in Greece’s Parliament early Wednesday morning, after giving a passionate speech about the need to learn the lessons of previous wars and about the