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…)
Russia has formed a new long-range Far East heavy bomber division. Moscow’s Defense Ministry announced on Oct. 6 that the Tyazheloy Bombardirovochnoy Aviatsionnoy Divizii, or HBD/TBAD, would patrol Pacific (more…)
President Vladimir Putin is looking to expand Russia’s military power and restore Moscow’s global reach of the Soviet era. Moscow on Oct. 10 announced it was planning to make (more…)
By Jack Caravelli UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced her nation will begin the lengthy process of leaving the European Union no later than the end of March 2017, (more…)
By Jack Caravelli UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s mid-September decision to move forward on the development of a commercial nuclear power plant is tacit acknowledgment of her nation’s dwindling (more…)
At a late September informal meeting in Algiers the 14-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to their first production cuts since 2008. The cuts will be minor, (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli The United Kingdom’s June vote to leave the European Union— a process that may take up to two years — has triggered a series of (more…)
