Category Archives: War and conflict

GUYANA: US Ambassador Lynch speaks: It is a long large mouthful – The GHK Lall Column 

03/21/2023 – 12:02 am

Mar 20, 2023 News, The GHK Lall Column 

GHK Lall

Hard truths… By: GHK Lall

Kaieteur News – Her Excellency, American Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch has spoken; she could not have spoken more clearly, or with more authority.  Ambassador Lynch has praised the Government of Guyana for honouring, abiding by, being obedient to the ironclad dictates of sanctity of contract (SN March 19).  Whether I like this or not, there is this fact set in US steel: Ambassador Lynch speaks on behalf of the American Government.

After all the silence, all the subtleties and sophistications, this is to what and where the clashes over this contract stand: the business of America is business.  A hundred years ago, Calvin Coolidge reportedly coined that storied, pregnant string of words.  He was an American President, not a tiny plenipotentiary.  In more recent times, Ronald Reagan and that unmentionable brother who came before the present White House occupant have also signaled American business as the central focuses, thrusts, and priorities of their presidencies.    Continue reading →

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Demographics: Russia’s Population Nightmare Is Going To Get Even Worse – The Economist

03/21/2023 – 12:01 am

War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict

The Economist

A demographic tragedy is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war, disease and exodus. The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 fell by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti. The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation. And because so many men of fighting age are dead or in exile, women outnumber men by at least 10m.

War is NOT the sole — or even the main — cause of these troubles but it has made them all worse. According to Western estimates, 175,000-200,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded over the past year (Russia’s own figures are lower). Somewhere between 500,000 and 1m mostly young, educated people have evaded the meat grinder by fleeing abroad. Even if Russia had no other demographic problems, losing so many in such a short time would be painful. As it is, the losses of war are placing more burdens on a shrinking, ailing population. Russia may be entering a doom loop of demographic decline.              Continue reading →

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DISASTER: How these buildings made Turkey-Syria’s earthquake so deadly

02/22/2023 – 6:30 am

DISASTER: How these buildings made Turkey-Syria’s earthquake so deadly

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VENEZUELA – The Economy Is rebounding – politics still authoritarian

02/06/2023 – 12:03 am

The Venezuelan economy appears to be improving after hitting bottom, but the political situation remains mired in authoritarianism

By July 22, 2022

In Venezuela, according to the official media, 202,609 new businesses have registered. Many sell a little of everything, all day long, because it takes a lot of hard work to fulfill the basic needs. Venezuela has been “becoming less worse” since the end of 2021, when, little by little, nearly imperceptibly, the economy began dollarizing.          Continue reading →

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Do NOT Fear Putin’s Demise : Victory for Ukraine – Democracy for Russia

01/30/2023 – 12:02 am

Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Foreign Affairs

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is living on borrowed time. The tide of history is turning, and everything from Ukraine’s advances on the battlefield to the West’s enduring unity and resolve in the face of Putin’s aggression points to 2023 being a decisive year. If the West holds firm, Putin’s regime will likely collapse in the near future.

Yet some of Ukraine’s key partners continue to resist supplying Kyiv with the weapons it needs to deliver the knockout punch. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden in particular seems afraid of the chaos that could accompany a decisive Kremlin defeat. It has declined to send the tanks, long-range missile systems, and drones that would allow Ukrainian forces to take the fight to their attackers, reclaim their territory, and end the war. The end of Putin’s tyrannical rule will indeed radically change Russia and the rest of the world — but not in the way the White House thinks. Rather than destabilizing Russia and its neighbors, a Ukrainian victory would eliminate a powerful revanchist force and boost the cause of democracy worldwide.        Continue reading →

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WORLD: GLOBAL Cyber Attack ‘Likely This Year’ (Says WEF) – video

01/26/2023 – 9:57 am

Commentary By Neil McCoy-Ward

WORLD: GLOBAL Cyber Attack ‘Likely This Year’ (Says WEF) – video

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GUYANA: African Guyanese existence again systematically targeted, continually eroded – By GHK Lall

01/26/2023 – 12:05 am

GHK Lall

Jan 25, 2023 Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column

Kaieteur News – The PPP Government and leadership can either be congratulated or condemned for its relentless commitment, its premediated visions, to target African Guyanese communities, interests, ways of life, and then systemically erode all three.  The latest involves cooperatives and idle lands (Demerara Waves, January 23), as presented by the Hon. Minister of Labour.  On the one hand, I go out of my way to congratulate the PPP brain trust for coming up with yet another perverse scheme that indicates the energies that are devoted to delivering the vindictive, vengeful, and vicious thrusted again at the breast of African Guyanese.      Continue reading →

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CHINA: China’s population falls for first time since 1961 – BBC News video

01/22/2023 – 12:33 pm

CHINA: China’s population falls for first time since 1961 – BBC News

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VIEWPOINT: The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia

01/20/2023 – 9:06 am

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

VIEWPOINT: The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia

With alternative sources in place, Putin’s attempt at blackmailing Europe on energy has failed.

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown professor in management practice and a senior associate dean at the Yale School of Management, and Steven Tian, the director of research at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. | Foreign Policy

For much of the past year, and since his invasion of Ukraine last February, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been riding high on his supposed energy omnipotence, holding the global economy hostage to his whims. Since last summer, Putin has choked off natural gas supplies to Europe, hoping that Europeans, shivering and without heat during the winter, would turn on their leaders and make it politically infeasible to continue support for Ukraine.               Continue reading →

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OIL: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming since 1970s, study finds

01/16/2023 – 6:00 am

Study reveals oil giant’s research predicted global warming with up to 83% accuracy – AP

Seth Borenstein · The Associated Press · 
A closeup photo shows a side profile of a man with graying short hair, wearing glasses and frowning as he faces a microphone.
Lee Raymond, (left) the former CEO of Exxon Mobil, is pictured here during testimony on Capitol Hill, on Nov. 9, 2005, before a joint Senate Energy and Commerce Committee hearing about oil prices. A new study published in Science quotes him as saying in 1999 that climate projections are often based on ‘sheer speculation.’ (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press)
Scientists with oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil made remarkably accurate predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ conclusions, a new study has found.            Continue reading →
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