“European Security: Four Priorities for 2020-2024” By Louis Cox-Brusseau, courtesy of Europeum As 2019 draws to a close, the European Union bids farewell to a year of historic change. With the election of a new Parliament and the formation of a new Commission, the Union looks ahead to the next five years as […]
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30 Years After the Fall
This originally appeared in Investors Business Daily on November 8, 2009, under the title “20 Years After the Fall.” By Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Twenty years ago, late on a Thursday evening in Berlin, the cement and concertina-wire symbol of the Cold War was breached, inadvertently opened by a botched answer of a […]
Importing Bad Ideas: Let’s Not
“Foreign reference pricing” is just price controls by the backdoor The world is full of bad ideas that self-interested parties sometimes try to bring to these shores, swearing up and down they’re actually good: karaoke, kale, Neti pots, the Yugo, the Macarena, Gerard Depardieu — the list goes on. To this hall of shame must […]
The Jones Act continues to make no sense at all
“Why Is an Energy Powerhouse Importing Russian LNG?” By Colin Grabow, courtesy of Cato Institute In the coming days a Spanish-flagged ship, the Catalunya Spirit, will deliver a shipment of Russia-originated liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Puerto Rico. Bizarrely, the United States—a leading exporter of LNG—is nonetheless importing it from a geopolitical rival. And this isn’t a first. […]
Offshore wind power could meet all global electricity demand
While it may not fulfill this role in the near term, a new report from the International Energy Agency suggests that offshore wind power — referring to wind turbines built in shallow areas of the ocean, relatively close to land — could one day supply all of the world’s electricity needs. Total wind […]
TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]
Keep an eye on Russian moves in Africa
“The Russia-Africa Summit: The next stage in the Kremlin’s Africa charm offensive” By Ivano di Carlo and Amanda Paul, courtesy of European Policy Centre On 23-24 October, over 40 African leaders and some 3,000 businessmen will gather in Sochi, Russia for the inaugural Russia-Africa Summit. […]
Carbon Taxes Will Never Be Enough
By Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center There’s a pervasive myth among “eco-cons”—conservatives who accept the theory of global warming—that we can tax our way out of a climate crisis. The myth goes like this: the Earth is getting dangerously warm and humanity is to […]
Russia muscling into Middle Eastern energy production
It’s widely acknowledged that Russia uses its vast supplies of oil and gas, along with its position athwart transit routes from Central Asia, as economic and diplomatic weapons, intimidating opponents in Western Europe and subordinating client states in Eastern Europe with the threat of cutting […]
Innovating for a cleaner environment
By Jasson Urbach, TES Contributor Humans today, almost everywhere on earth, enjoy lives and livelihoods better than those of their parents and grandparents thanks to fossil fuels. Aside from the car you drive or the bus you may ride to work, look around and see the thousands of everyday items we take […]