China is building new roads, railroads and pipelines from Central Asia to Europe in an effort to build new connections to the rest of the…
Silk Road
In his seminal 'Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization,' Bryan Ward-Perkins writes, "Romans before the fall were as certain as we are today…
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the seventh year in a row, and for the second time this year only)…
While many eagerly await the day when China will finally reveal its latest official gold holdings, a number which when made public will be orders of…
“…it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the U.S.) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America” Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand…
In the first study of its kind since the 1920s, rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting…