Generational Dynamics - Page 7

Contents: India begins shipping wheat to Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar port; In retaliation, Afghanistan bans entry of Pakistan trucks; Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) – conduit of smuggling

Contents: Burundi’s Hutu government leaves International Criminal Court to avoid war crimes charges; Burundi to amend constitution to let Nkurunziza hold power until 2034

Contents: North Korea renews threat of massive hydrogen bomb test over Pacific; US sends three aircraft carrier strike groups to waters around North Korea

Contents: UN Secretary-General in Central African Republic begs for more funding; Bangassou becomes the most dangerous town in Central African Republic

Contents: Japan’s Shinzo Abe wins a ‘super-majority’ in Japan’s lower house; Abe promises to change the constitution to end Japan’s pacifism

Contents: Zimbabwe’s people fear further starvation after food imports are banned; Zimbabwe’s people fear hyperinflation again after last month’s ‘bond note’ crash

Contents: Mainstream economists baffled about stock market panic of October 19, 1987; The 58 Year Hypothesis: False panics of 1914 and 1987; Examples of the 58 Year Hypothesis: Swine Flu, Iraq War, Israel-Hezbollah war

Contents: Kurds flee Kirkuk after Iraq army defeats them in complete rout; Devastating defeat to Iraq in Kirkuk exposes major splits between Kurdish factions

Contents: Mattis and Tillerson work to prevent Iraq vs Kurd military confrontation in Kirkuk; ISIS fighters permitted to leave Raqqa, Syria, with human shields; Syria demands ‘immediately’ pullout of Turkey’s forces from Idlib province

Contents: The last UN peacekeepers leave Haiti after 14 years; Thousands of Haitians living in Miami scheduled for deportation in January

Contents: Iraqi troops and tanks seen massing near Kirkuk, poised to attack Kurds; Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas announce unity agreement; Turkey’s tanks and troops cross border into Syria’s Idlib in apparent truce with HTS

Contents: Palestinian reconciliation talks ignore Hamas commitment to destroy Israel; Palestinian unity talks face disagreement on Hamas’s ‘resistance weapons’

Contents: Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender as Iraqi town of Hawija falls; Tensions grow between Turkmens and Kurds in Kirkuk

Contents: UAE official says Arab blockade was engineered to prevent Qatar hosting 2022 World Cup; Numerous controversies surround FIFA’s award of World Cup 2022 to Qatar; A new ‘risk report’ raises doubts about Qatar hosting World Cup 2022

Contents: Turkey announces major military operation in Syria’s Idlib province; Turkey’s success in Idlib is far from certain

Contents: Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) blamed for deaths of US troops in Niger; Jihadist ambush in Niger forces a review of military operations in Africa

Contents: Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar); Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis

Contents: International Red Cross: Fighting in Syria worst since Aleppo; Analyst gives a chilling analysis of where the Syrian war is going

Contents: Russia considers taking on a huge financial burden – Venezuela; Maduro has ‘plans A, B and C’ if US imposes further sanctions

Contents: Jihadist attacks on UN peacekeepers surge in Mali; JNIM (Group for Support of Islam and Muslims) takes credit for attacks

Contents: Kirkuk becomes the flash point after the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum; Significant differences in the three recent independence movements

Contents: Cameroon police shoot and kill English-speaking protesters on Sunday; Catalonia’s leader says the region has ‘won the right to statehood’ from Spain

Contents: Catalonia referendum poised to go ahead despite Spain’s harsh repressive measures; Hundreds of Catalan families occupy school buildings in defiance of police

Contents: Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger form project to sound alarm on China; Taiwan’s prime minister says that Taiwan is an ‘independent sovereign state’

Contents: Burma’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone; Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot’s Cambodian Killing Fields

Contents: Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni’s power grab; Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries; Thailand’s Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail

Contents: Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum appears headed for big approval; Israel may be the only country recognizing the Iraq Kurdistan referendum

Contents: North Korea threatens to shoot down US warplanes; Is there a strategic explanation for Trump’s statements and tweets?

Contents: Angela Merkel scores weak win in German national elections; Rise of far-right AfD party in Germany raises international alarm bells

Contents: Chinese and Indian behavior: A study in contrasts during Doklam crisis; Analysts draw lessons from the China vs. India Doklam border standoff.

The Madrid government has flooded Catalonia with almost ten thousand police officers, stormed Catalonia’s government buildings, confiscated thousands of ballot papers, and arrested Catalonia government officials. To those with long memories, this looks a lot like the beginnings of policies that led to the Spanish Civil War.

Contents: Russia’s ‘telephone terror’ forces evacuation of over 200,000 people; Kenya’s government in chaos as it faces a new election delay

Contents: With Trump’s sanctions in place, Venezuela expected to go bankrupt soon; Analyst advises Venezuela to keep its assets safe from creditors; Maduro tells Venezuelans to breed and eat rabbits

Contents: Next, Turkey will teach that the sun orbits around the earth; Stanislav Petrov, “The man who saved the world,” dies at age 77

Contents: The huge Equifax data breach puts makes many people vulnerable to identity theft; Steps you should consider taking to protect yourself; Equifax and the rise of Generation-X; Release of DOJ memo reveals massive criminal fraud by JP Morgan in financial crisis

Contents: Global food price increases affecting world political stability; UN identifies three causes of increase in world hunger