By Dr. Jack Caravelli Seeking to stem a protracted depression in oil prices, the 13 member OPEC oil cartel, and with coordinated support from Russia, another major oil producer, (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli Westinghouse Electric Company, a subsidiary of Toshiba and one of the world’s leading makers of nuclear reactors, said this month it had been shut out (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli A new report from the BND, German’s intelligence agency, concludes that Islamic terrorists operating in the Middle East are training jihadists to infiltrate into the (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli The U.S.-Saudi relationship may be reaching a breaking point under mounting tensions over a series of political and financial issues. Saudi Arabia has been a (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli The French energy giant Total has agreed to finance the next phase of a major energy deal with Iran, becoming the first Western energy company (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli Building on its 2011 national cyber security strategy, the UK government has issued a new plan for the years 2016-2021, according to an unclassified version (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli When those in London are not fixated on the U.S. presidential election, they are immersed in their own set of controversial political issues. In late (more…)
NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced in mid-October that it plans to close the UK accounts of Russia Today, also known as RT. RT (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli For more than two years Russian President Vladimir Putin has initiated an aggressive series of policy decisions aimed at advancing Russian interests and undermining the (more…)