Diplomatik Gözlem

RAJOY HAVING A TOUGH TIME IN THE CRISIS ARENA

Spain challenged by the crisis

Interest rates are very high, capital is leaving the country, unemployment is rising, the banking sector is in a coma and surplus residence stocks abound. How will Spain overcome this crisis?

The change of government in Spain has not brought any gains in the face of the crisis. Markets are still nervous....

16.05.2012

BRUSSELS’ DESPOTISM WILL GROW

The international press has been claiming that it is too late now to save either Greece or Portugal. To be honest, even if Athens and Lisbon went bankrupt at the same time, this might cause some discomfort for the European Union, but will go no further than that in terms of volume and effect. There is more however.

The bankruptcy of the fourth largest e...

16.05.2012

THE GREATEST GAME HAS BEGUN

Heat Rising in the Asia-Pacific Region

Conflict and competition within the global system has reached a new level. The roots of the new phase lie in the 19^th century conflict between Britain and Russia. Later the USA had taken over Britain’s position. The Cold War was a symptom. Now, after a long time, the “great game” has grown and reached it...

16.05.2012

FOR A SOLUTION IN PALESTINE

It is not enough to be “determined to reach peace”

As in every other dispute, the parties to the Palestinian problem voice that they are “determined to reach peace” at every occasion. Yet, more is needed. Israel has especially to make more effort towards a solution.

Israel needs to immediately put an unconditional end to all construct...

16.05.2012

SARKOZY WOULD HAVE MADE GADDAFI A NUCLEAR POWER

It emerged that Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to sell a nuclear reactor to Gaddafi. The claim has been made by Anne Lauvergon, former head of the nuclear energy corporation Areva. Lauvergon has voiced this claim in an interview with the magazine L’Express. According to Lauvergon, the project to give Gaddafi nuclear capabilities was a project supported by the French gove...

16.05.2012

ECONOMIC INJUSTICE ON THE RISE

People are unhappy. People think they suffer injustice. That this will lead to depression and that the major situation will become chronic is certain.

A public opinion survey carried out by the BBC World Service has established this fact through numerical data. Neo-liberalism and the global crisis it has led to produce unhappy people, uncomfortable soc...

16.05.2012

RED ALARM OVER AFRICA

The Coast of Africa expects new famine disaster

Africa is once more facing great danger. Hunger and death are threatening millions. Many non-governmental organisations are trying to raise society and world public into action. With the campaigns they have run, civil society organisations have managed to raise USD 52 million. However, this figure is not e...

16.05.2012

RENDERING EAST JERUSALEM JEWISH MEANS ETHNIC CLEANSING

In 1967 Israel invaded Palestine. Since the beginning of the occupation, Israel has been running a project to make Eastern Jerusalem Jewish. This clearly means ethnic cleansing. Israel is aware of this and hence uses terms such as “making Jewish” in order to conceal the ongoing ethnic cleansing from the world.

For Israel this essentially means dismissin...

16.05.2012

THIS SUMMER WILL BE HOT

The European economy on the threshold of a major quake

The European economy is approaching turbulence. The debt crisis grows. The claims have been proven wrong and it was not possible to stop the tsunami of debt bills at the periphery of the Eurozone. The barrier of bags of money built around the Eurozone to prevent the wave of crisis sweeping away Euro...

16.05.2012

COMPETITION OVER RESOURCES WILL BE HARSHER

What do you think history is? There have been many answers given to this question. One of them describes history as the struggle over the distribution of resources. It is probably the most accurate one. For history has witnessed wars and peace agreements resulting from issues to do with resource distribution.

Alliances are set up for the distribution of...

16.05.2012

WILL THERE BE AN ARCTIC CRISIS?

A new serious crisis may upset everything

With the dwindling sources of underground wealth and global warming it is now the North Pole’s turn. The world’s axis is truly shifting. The softer climate has brought to mind resources which had as of yet remained untouched. Furthermore, the melting ice has brought up the possibility of new transportation route...

16.05.2012

NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT BREAD

The global crisis is killing the spirit of democracy

The global crisis has had many direct and indirect consequences. Unemployment has risen, the real sector has ground to a halt, consumption has fallen and the like. However the most destructive effect of the global crisis has been on democracy. With societal collapse, democracy is under threat.

The crisis which was...

23.04.2012

BELLS RING FOR LONDON

The British economy in risk

The British economy is sending out bad signals. British manufacturing output has declined by 1 percent in February 2012. This marks its lowest point in 10 months. In other words, things are going badly. But there is worse.

While all eyes are on Athens, Madrid and Rome, the series of bad news which have emerged from London shows that it is...

23.04.2012

THE USA IS HEADED IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION

Problems have transformed the conceptual framework of the USA

For the most part of the twentieth century, the USA was a great, rich, happy nation. People were well off, free and had great confidence. Large cars, tall buildings and large steaks summed it all up. The crisis has severely tested the USA. With the crisis, the UA has changed a lot.

For this reason the “Am...

23.04.2012

JEWISH SETTLEMENTS: A BRAKE ON PEACE

Israel tactically establishes Jewish Settlements in the Occupied Territories

There is no peace in the Middle East. Peace cannot be established in the Middle East. Perhaps the entire fault cannot be found with one party in any given conflict, but in this case the greater blame lies with Israel. Israel makes a solution impossible through the policies it follows. Israel’s se...

20.04.2012