Geopolitical – Week of 04.13.14

Leaflet Tells Jews to Register in East Ukraine
USA Today | 17 April 2014
World leaders and Jewish groups condemned a leaflet handed out in the eastern Ukrainian city…

Regulator Without Peer
The Wall Street Journal | 16 April 2014
Anyone wondering why the U.S. economy can’t seem to grow at its usual pace should examine one product category where production is booming: federal regulation…

Study Finds More Immigrants Equals More Democrats — and More Losses for GOP
Washington Examiner | 15 April 2014
Republicans are famously divided on immigration reform, but Democrats pretty much unanimously support it…

China’s President Urges Greater Militarization of Space
Fox News | 15 April 2014
China’s president is calling on his country to boost its military power…

Europe Folds As Putin Tells It To Pay Ukraine’s Gazprom Bill, Or Else
Zero Hedge | 11 April 2014
Another day ending in “y” means another day in which Putin plays the G(roup of most insolvent countries)-7 like a fiddle…

Will The Pentagon’s Secret Space Plane Ever Return to Earth?
The Daily Beast | 07 April 2014
Nearly 500 days into its mission, the Pentagon still won’t say what its drone space shuttle is doing in orbit, or when it might come back…

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Head Of Saudi Intelligence, Has Been Sacked
Zero Hedge | 15 April 2014
In the aftermath of the disastrous, for both the US and Saudi Arabia…

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
Perspectives on Politics | Fall 2014
Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics…

US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study
Information Clearing House | 14 April 2014
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics…

The West Leaves Ukraine to Putin
The Wall Street Journal | 14 April 2014
‘We’re the chosen generation,” says Arseniy Yatsenyuk…

German Space Center ‘Spied on by Foreign Intelligence’
RT | 14 April 2014
Computer networks of the German Aerospace Center have been infiltrated…

World Spends Less on Military Armaments
The Telegraph | 14 April 2014
Report out today by a Swedish thinktank shows a 1.9 percent fall…

Ukraine: Military Recaptures Eastern Airport
AP News | 15 April 2014
Ukraine’s acting president says army troops have restored control over a small airport in eastern Ukraine…

French School Carries Out DNA Dragnet in Rape Case
AP News | 14 April 2014
French investigators began taking DNA samples Monday from 527 male students…

Texas Congressman Tells Attorney General Eric Holder he Belongs ‘In Jail’ as Conflict Heats Up Between Republican Lawmakers and the Obama Administration
The Daily Mail | 09 April 2014
In a stunning clash of two branches of the U.S. federal government…

Bundy Boots the BLM – Is This a Significant Moment?
The Daily Bell | 14 April 2014
‘The Citizens Of America’ Got My Cattle Back…

Oath Keeper Founder, Stewart Rhodes: “We Know It’s Not Over”
http://youtu.be/NLMAEcjIBxw
YouTube | 13 April 2014
Founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, is in Bunkerville…

Western States Rising Against Feds
YouTube | 13 April 2014
Gary Franchi gives a quick update from OathKeeper Founder Stewart Rhodes…

Ukraine’s Ousted President Puts Blame on CIA
Yahoo! News | 13 April 2014
Ukraine’s ousted president has accused the CIA of being behind the new Ukrainian government…

U.S. Agency Backs Down In Standoff With Cattle Rancher
NPR | 12 April 2014
Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who refuses to pay grazing fees for the use of federally protected land…