The Olympics and Geopolitics by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Oct 15, 2009 The modern Olympics are supposed to be about two things: ... the choice of site for the Olympic Games and winning the games themselves became ever more an important objective of governments. Geopolitics has never been absent from the games. Throughout the Cold War, the competition between the blocs was counted in the ...

"The Geopolitics of Afghan Opium" F. William Engdahl "One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large. Behind all ...

... email. To recap an earlier blog post on this subject, I’m starting to think about the relationship between geopolitics and media. One idea would be to look at how the major powers (EU, US, China, etc.) ... of oil and gas pipelines, water resources, transport networks, etc, but I get the impression that we know much less about the geopolitics of broadcast media or internet and mobile networks.

Nobel Geopolitics | STRATFOR The mechanism for awarding the peace prize is very different from the other Nobel categories. Academic bodies, such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, decide who wins the other prizes. Alfred Nobel’s will stated, however, that a committee of five selected by the Norwegian legislature, or Storting, should award the peace

Nobel Geopolitics By George Friedman October 12, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prize, which was to be awarded to the person who has accomplished “the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the promotion of peace congresses.” ...

As if U.S. domestic drug policy wasn't screwed up enough, there are the geopolitics. As Ryan Grim notes in This Is Your Country on Drugs, eradicating any foreign drug crop seen as being inimicable to American interests is nearly impossible. This is because it is obvious to any farmer -- whether a Bolivian growing coca or an Afghan growing opium poppies -- that if it were not for American ...