The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp

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Katusa first became interested in the energy sector through investing. He began in mining, shifted to Uranium, and began to see the unconventional energy sector as a much bigger story.

Why did the Cold War end when it did? Few questions have generated more heated debate over the course of the last three decades. Archie Brown, one of the foremost experts on the subject, shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is erroneous. US president FDR had lived into the post-war era so that he could have continued to develop his relationship with Soviet leader Stalin in implementing their wartime agreements; Teresa at * 34 comments (25 September 2004). "Making Light: More on the Lovecraftian far right". Nielsenhayden.com . Retrieved 10 February 2012. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am appreciating Tom Clancy's books quite a bit differently now that I have a much richer knowledge of his setting. It was not a conscious decision to take advantage of this, but I did happen to reread Hunt for Red October shortly after this, and my family also gifted me Sontag's also excellent (albeit much more narrowly focused) Blind Man's Bluff that also happens to tie in very well. In the Bloomberg interview Katusa revealed he manages a Canadian Hedge Fund; he’s involved in shale oil, copper and uranium; so his money in “on the line”.The story is set in the early 1980s and explores the consequences of the Pabodie expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. [2] [3] Although the story has similarity to the later Stross novel The Atrocity Archives, they are set in different universes. [4] Teresa Nielsen Hayden describes the story on Making Light as, "the Oliver North/Guns for Hostages scandal, seen from the viewpoint of a CIA bureaucrat, in a universe in which the entire Cthulhu Mythos is real." [5]

I really enjoy this author, the insider knowledge he brings to the inner workings of SIS and am relieved that there is no gratuitous violence in his writing, a complete turnoff for me. Let the readers imagination play its part in the interplay between author and reader. But there are far too many characters in the first half of this book, a bewildering number of subplots and subsubplots (no such word I’ve no doubt but you get my drift). And what exactly is the reason behind Kell's unwavering loyalty and belief in C? Hope that this will be explained in the 3rd of the series which I will listen to after a bit of a break. Excellent narrator with clear delineation between the voices of the characters. News from Moscowis a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol’skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist. Russia seems to be the good partner for the west: due to its resources on gas, uranium and oil. The USA should take heed of the “judgment day for the petrodollar”. Japan is about to return to nuclear power and Russia still holds half of the world production of uranium.

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En esta nueva novela de Charles Cummings, el autor realizará un claro homenaje a otra novela de espías, El topo de John le Carré (1974), al tratar el argumento sobre una posible infiltración del enemigo en el MI6. Contaremos con algunas referencias al caso real Los cinco de Cambridge —grupo de espías británicos reclutados por la URSS durante la II Guerra Mundial y que actuaron hasta los años 50 del siglo pasado—, en una trama que se centrará en la búsqueda de un agente que en realidad trabaja para otra organización y que va sembrando muertos y operaciones frustradas entre el MI6. Flawed hero in the middle book of three. Lots of action and suspense along with what the author calls "trade craft"--how spies go about their business. Personally had a problem with Kell's sudden and obsessive romance with a younger woman, but perhaps that's just part of his flawed character. That and his relationship with Amelia, his manipulative boss. This is an ambitious work by the preeminent historian of the Global Cold War. Westad certainly touches on most of the countries that were affected by the Cold War, but his acceptance of the Cold War as a useful trope to evaluate the entire world is flawed. Indeed, Westad is one of the historians who has shown that the Cold War was anything but "cold." It was actually comprised of many "hot" wars. Portraying the conflict between the US and USSR as "cold" delegitimizes the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and portrays them as pawns in a bigger game by white, European and American powers. Shute is an unfashionable writer now, but he was hugely popular in the 1950s and 60s. This 1957 novel, set in Australia, tells of the time after a global nuclear war. Week by week a radioactive cloud is sweeping southwards, bringing with it inevitable death. Slightly clunky, it would win no prizes for literary style – but its artlessness and proliferation of seemingly inconsequential detail somehow make this story of ordinary people waiting for extinction both credible and affecting.