USA
Barack Obama's dilemma: U.S. foreign policy and electoral realities
September 20, 2011By George Friedman, Stratfor / Austin, TX / -- STRATFOR does not normally involve itself in domestic American politics. Our focus is on international affairs, and American politics, like politics everywhere, is a passionate business. The vilification...
NED Panel Commemorates Moldovan Independence
September 15, 2011To commemorate Moldova’s twenty years of independence, NED hosted a panel discussion, co-organized with Freedom House and the Moldova Foundation (a NED grantee), on “Moldova’s Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes.”...
September 11, 2011On a clear, sunny late summer day in September 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing everyone...
U.S. Civil War: Re-examining the Confederate past (video)
August 24, 2011As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, many Americans are re-examining the conflict, especially in Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy. During the Civil War, which lasted four years, the nation...
American foreign aid in Muslim countries: Upgrade or end?
August 22, 2011Despite the billions of dollars that the United States has spent in aid to many Muslim countries, our image in many of these countries continues to be profoundly negative. The "winning hearts and minds" strategy simply has not worked. It is...
80% of U.S. Marines shot in Iraq died because of inadequate body armor
August 17, 2011The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S. troops, the Defense Department's inspector general found. The Pentagon...
Jaroslaw Suplacz: Poland on its way to Greece
August 09, 2011A stimulated GDP The Polish GDP is strongly influenced by a stream of financial transfers from the European Union, in 2010 the net income from the EU budget was about 8 billion euro. Were it not for the transfers from the Union, the change of the Polish...
Global economic downturn: A crisis of political economy
August 09, 2011By George Friedman* Classical political economists like Adam Smith or David Ricardo never used the term “economy” by itself. They always used the term “political economy.” For classical economists, it was impossible to understand...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Barack Obama!
August 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- As it is widely known Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is also the first African American to hold the office. And today the entire American nation and...
Top Terrorism Risk list by Maplecroft (198 countries)
August 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Maplecroft, a consultancy firm that studies and monitors political, economic, social, and environmental risks, developed the Terrorism Index to allow business to identify and monitor the risks posed...