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Nyquist for 2009

06/26/09  Elite Power in Iran
06/19/09  Why Most Things Do Not Matter
06/12/09  Holding It Together
06/05/09  A Great Nation?
05/29/09  A Dreamer at the Helm
05/22/09  Stone Age Genocide
05/15/09  The Post-American Apocalypse
05/08/09  Nuclear Disarmament and Russia’s Heart of Darkness
05/01/09  The Investment Climate in 2059
04/24/09  Lessons Taken from Strategy Games
04/17/09  Understanding Subversion
04/10/09  Disarmament 101
04/03/09  When Fortune Turns Against Us
03/27/09  Speaking Truth to Power
03/20/09  Creative Visualization 101
03/13/09  Chaos, Confusion, and Civil War
03/06/09  Catastrophic Solutions for Catastrophe
02/27/09  The Man Who Warned Congress
02/20/09  Why Not the Truth?
02/16/09  Suvorov's Methodology
02/06/09  Shameful Stupidity
01/30/09  Compound Errors
01/26/09  Buchanan’s History
01/16/09  American Imperialism, Part II
01/09/09  American Imperialism, Part I
01/03/09  Strategic Reality 101

The Best of Nyquist for 2008

12/27/08  Smashing the Defense Budget
12/19/08  The Final Absurdity
12/12/08  Thatcher’s Defense of the Free Market
12/05/08  Negative Numbers and the Road to Serfdom
12/01/08  Old Scarecrows
11/21/08  Specialization and Decline
11/14/08  Russia's Response to the Economic Crisis
11/08/08  The Web of Deceit and the Spirit of Sabinus
10/31/08  Hitting Bottom
10/24/08  A Study in Collapse
10/17/08  The Same Old Delusions
10/10/08  The Monster at the Bottom of the Abyss
10/03/08  Political Blame and the Myth of Government...
09/26/08  False Values, False Economy, and the Devil to Pay
09/19/08  Financial Collapse and Destructive War
09/12/08  The Danger is Not Fully Appreciated
09/05/08  Change Agents
08/29/08  The Oracle
08/22/08  The West Comes Unraveled
08/15/08  Russia's Concept for Dominating Europe
08/08/08  Russia Invades Georgia
08/01/08  Politics by Assassination?
07/25/08  The Blind Kittens
07/18/08  High Finance and Bolshevik Principles
07/11/08  Cultural Suicide
07/04/08  What the Founding Fathers Would Say
06/27/08  The Enemy's Scheme of Attack
06/20/08  Exploiting Our Economic Woes
06/13/08  Up to Old Tricks
06/06/08  Triggering Global Revolution
05/30/08  The Oil Problem, Part 2
05/23/08  The Oil Problem
05/16/08  A Dangerous Passage
05/09/08  Buchanan’s Day of Reckoning, Part IV
05/02/08  Buchanan’s Day of Reckoning, Part III
04/25/08  Buchanan’s Day of Reckoning, Part II
04/18/08  Buchanan’s Day of Reckoning, Part I
04/11/08  Fighting for Freedom
04/04/08  The ABCs of Global Power
03/28/08  Autarky and Ancient Wisdom
03/21/08  Tolerance and National Unity
03/14/08  Strategic Intention and Mass Man
03/07/08  Strategic Relationships
02/29/08  Ancient Athens and Modern America
02/22/08  Misreading the Tea Leaves
02/15/08  In the Red
02/08/08  Defenseless and Stupid
02/01/08  The Cold War Never Ended
01/25/08  Letting Go of Our Defenses
01/18/08  Alien Minds
01/11/08  The Curse of Unreality
01/04/08  Years of Crisis Ahead

The Best of Nyquist for 2007

12/28/07  The Advantage of the Nation State
12/21/07  "Strategic Siege" in the Great Game
12/14/07  Analysis for the Sake of Convenience
12/07/07  The State as End-In-Itself
11/30/07  Political Philosophy 101
11/26/07  Decay, Economic Downturn and Revolution
11/16/07  The War on Error
11/09/07  Cycles of History, Boom and Bust
11/02/07  The Devil in the Details, Again
10/26/07  The Downward Trend Is Unstoppable
10/19/07  The Logic of Nuclear Proliferation
10/12/07  Machiavelli's Six Conditions
10/04/07  Iranian Situation Bound to Worsen
09/30/07  Propaganda Points the Way
09/21/07  The Flight Into Real Values
09/14/07  Filming the Great Deception
09/07/07  Hitting the Wall
08/31/07  Economic Warfare in the Final Phase
08/24/07  Russia's Undeniable War Preparations
08/17/07  When the Herd Panics
08/10/07  A Brief Commentary on Financial Crises
08/03/07  How the Present Economic Order Will End
07/27/07  The Coming Malaise
07/20/07  The Assassins
07/13/07  Office Politics
07/06/07  The Path of Dissolution
07/02/07  Moral Equivalence
06/22/07  War Preparations and War Strategy in the Middle East
06/15/07  The Brand of Shame and Infamy
06/08/07  Russia's G8 Strategy
06/01/07  When Big Enemies Encounter Small Nothings
05/25/07  Russian Motives
05/18/07  CIA Myth, CIA History
05/11/07  Words From Red Square
05/04/07  An Idea Firmly Planted
04/27/07  One Clenched Fist
04/20/07  Broken On a Wheel of Lies
04/15/07  Morality, Strategy and Destiny
04/06/07  Will Bush Bomb Iran?
03/30/07  As Winter Approaches
03/23/07  East vs. West: An Old Tale
03/16/07  Multiplication of Wants
03/09/07  China's Military Strategy
03/02/07  China's Economic Strategy
02/23/07  Evil in Politics
02/16/07  Putin's Munich Speech
02/09/07  Worldly Wisdom
02/04/07  The Cult of Murder
01/26/07  The Destruction of the United States
01/19/07  No Sense of History
01/12/07  Some Things Are Impossible
01/05/07  The Lost Shepherd

The Best of Nyquist for 2006

12/29/06  Europe's White Flag of Cowardice
12/22/06  Socialism Again
12/15/06  Wake Up
12/08/06  Energy and Security
12/01/06  Russia Ready to Neutralize U.S. Economy
11/27/06  A New Methodology for West Affairs
11/20/06  Kremlin Poison
11/10/06  Political Change and Middle East Policy
11/03/06  America's Defeat
10/27/06  The Islamic Tide
10/20/06  The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya
10/13/06  Behind North Korea's Nuclear Test
10/06/06  Analytical Clarifications
09/29/06  A Restructured Threat
09/22/06  America's Enemies at the U.N.
09/15/06  The Path to 9/11 and Beyond
09/08/06  Anatomy of a Delusion
09/01/06  Objectives and Outcomes
08/25/06  Russia and the Iranian Bomb
08/18/06  The Long Struggle Continues
08/11/06  Islam and Fascism
08/04/06  Is there a Syrian-Iranian-Russian Alliance
07/28/06  The Bungle Factor
07/21/06  Iran's Game and America's Fate
07/14/06  The Fatal Befuddlement
07/07/06  Government Wrongdoing
06/30/06  Falling Asleep At the Switch
06/23/06  Refusing to Face Reality
06/16/06  Unfinished Business, Then and Now
06/09/06  Machiavellian Realism
06/02/06  The Torah of Geopolitics
05/26/06  A Man of Average Ability
05/19/06  Berlinski's Europe
05/12/06  Peak Oil Addendum and Errata
05/08/06  Debunking Peak Oil
04/28/06  Going Nowhere
04/21/06  Middle East Woes
04/14/06  The Real Mexican Revolution
04/07/06  The Success of the West
03/31/06  Implausible Deniability
03/24/06  More Tricks
03/17/06  Our Fragile World
03/10/06  Caught in a Trap
03/03/06  Desperately Seeking Peace
02/24/06  Narcissism and the Self-Serving Bias
02/17/06  Intuition Deficit Disorder
02/10/06  Iran, Russia, and American Self-Deception
02/03/06  The Direction of American Policy
01/27/06  Saddam's WMDs Moved to Syria
01/20/06  Peak Oil and Civilization's Decline
01/13/06  Strategy and The Great Powers
01/06/06  The Next Crisis: Iran

The Best of Nyquist for 2005

12/30/05  An Open-Ended War
12/23/05  The Undead Again
12/16/05  Iran: A Problem Within a Problem
12/09/05  Democracy vs. Property
12/02/05  Japanese Rearmament and the China Threat
11/25/05  An Outline of Bush's War Strategy
11/18/05  Democracy as Strategy
11/11/05  Ethnic Violence and Economic Decline in Europe
11/04/05  Is Bush's Middle East Policy Collapsing?
10/28/05  The Death of Steven Vincent
10/21/05  A Question of Intelligence
10/14/05  A Reversal of Fortune
10/07/05  The Problem of Enmity
09/30/05  Does Al Qaeda Have Nuclear Weapons?2
09/23/05  Does Al Qaeda Have Nuclear Weapons?1
09/16/05  A Threefold Crisis
09/09/05  Waiting for Bin Laden
09/02/05  The Planet of the Apes
08/26/05  Chavez, Castro and Robertson
08/19/05  The Iraq Diversion
08/12/05  Rumors of War
08/05/05  The Collapse of Order
07/29/05  The Collapse of Capitalism
07/22/05  American Hiroshima
07/15/05  China's Nuclear Threat
07/08/05  Why London Was Targeted?
07/01/05  Recent China Revelations
06/24/05  Freedom and Military Power
06/17/05  National Security vs. Special Interests
06/10/05  Feminism and the Defense of the West
06/03/05  Trivial Propositions and the Big Picture
05/27/05  Why the Bad Guys Are Bad
05/24/05  Chickens, Goats & Military Intelligence
05/13/05  Surprise Attacks
05/06/05  Grand Strategy and Moral Sentiment
04/29/05  Eternal Recurrence
04/22/05  Straight Talk
04/15/05  The Very Thing We Combat
04/01/05  Reductionism and Anti-Americanism
03/10/05  East and West, Again
02/18/05  The Soul of Iraq
02/04/05  The Political Consequences of a Financial Crash
01/21/05  Outposts of Tyranny
01/06/05  Unmasking Spies, Then and Now

The Best of Nyquist for 2004

12/30/04  The U.S.-French Split
12/24/04  Soros versus Horowitz
12/15/04  Russia's Challenge to America
12/09/04  Was Yushchenko Poisoned?
12/02/04  Analyzing the Ukraine Crisis
11/26/04  Measuring American Success in the War
11/19/04  Bush's New National Security Regime
11/11/04  An American Pudding
11/03/04  Picking Up All of The Pieces
10/27/04  America's Choice
10/22/04  The Heart of the Arab World
10/14/04  Talking Up the Russia Threat
10/07/04  Losing the War on Terror
09/30/04  The Crisis of Organized Brigandage
09/23/04  New Enemies for Old
09/16/04  The September Revolution
09/08/04  Putin Declares War
08/26/04  Predicting the Future, Part IV
08/18/04  Predicting the Future, Part III
08/12/04  Predicting the Future, Part II
08/04/04  Predicting the Future, Part I
07/30/04  My Errors, My Perspective (Special Ed.)
07/29/04  The Dance of Death
07/21/04  Murder in Russia
07/14/04  Is al Qaeda Preparing a Nuclear Hit?
07/07/04  Courting War with America
06/30/04  Fahrenheit Geopolitics
06/24/04  The Iranian Threat
06/17/04  The Fed and China's Grand Strategy
06/09/04  The Advent of Nihilism
06/03/04  The Sociology of Mass Destruction Weapons
05/27/04  The American Empire and Its Prospects
05/19/04  A Culture of Hate?
05/13/04  Grey Terror
05/05/04  America's Defeat: A Witches' Tale
04/28/04  The Chemical Bomb Plot in Jordan
04/22/04  Complications and Combinations
04/15/04  The President and The Piranhas
04/08/04  The Politicization of 9/11
03/31/04  The Russian Mafiya and Al Qaeda
03/24/04  China's Army on Combat Alert
03/18/04  Spain and the Future of the West
03/10/04  News That Isn't New
03/04/04  The Problem of the Enemy
02/26/04  The Heart of a Nation
02/19/04  A Note After the Passing of President's Day
02/11/04  Superpower Relations
02/04/04  The Secret War
01/29/04  Europe vs. America and Israel?
01/22/04  Another Fine Bureaucratic Mess
01/15/04  Bush Against The Smart Set
01/08/04  Outrageous Bureaucratic Bungling

The Best of Nyquist for 2003

12/17/03  Saddam's Legacy
12/03/03  The Soviet Union Again
11/26/03  It's About Freedom
11/19/03  A Tangled Debate: Saddam's Al Qaeda Ties
11/12/03  Hoaxers, Terrorists, Revolutionaries and Spetsnaz
11/05/03  Democracy in Iraq?
10/29/03  Did the President Lie?
10/09/03  A Victory for Democracy?
10/01/03  Them Dry Facts
09/24/03  Kremlin Terrorists
08/27/03  Russia's Game
08/13/03  Who Becomes A Terrorist?
08/06/03  America's Ignorance of the Middle East
07/30/03  A Kingdom Torn Asunder
07/23/03  The Saudi Question
07/16/03  The Approaching Global Crisis
07/09/03  Treason or Criticism?
07/02/03  Meet the Policymakers
06/25/03  The Wisdom of New Zealand
06/18/03  Gross Stupidity and Negligence
06/11/03  America, Britain and the European Union
06/04/03  Lying About America
05/28/03  The Threat to America & Bush's Response
05/14/03  Europeversus America
05/07/03  The Middle East Crisis in Retrospect
04/23/03  China Troubles
04/08/03  The Core of the Axis Exposed
03/11/03  Two Warnings
03/05/03  The Business of the Monkey
02/25/03  Friendly Fire
02/18/03  Coriolanus Again
02/12/03  Is NATO Cracking?
01/21/03  Destructive Criticism, Ideology and The Fog of War
01/14/03  The Enemy Behind Our Enemy
01/09/03  The Crisis in Venezuela - Special Report
01/07/03  Latin America's Red Axis
01/04/03  The Thug in Iraq

The Best of Nyquist for 2002

11/12/02  No Wiggle Room
11/04/02  The Presbyterian "Peacemongers"
10/29/02  America's Intelligence Breakdown
10/15/02  The New Economy & The New World Order
09/24/02  Will the Real Bogeyman Please Stand Up
09/10/02  One Year in the War on Terror
07/16/02  Ayman al-Zawahiri's Russian Adventure
07/09/02  The Chechen War and bin Laden's Nukes
06/10/02  Why We Are Not Safe: An Examination of the Fictions That Govern Us
02/25/02  Bush stands tall: Iraq in the Crosshairs
02/11/02  Russia's Proliferation Game

The Best of Nyquist for 2001

12/24/01  A Thousand-And-One Traitors
12/10/01  Only In America
11/19/01  Our Local Enemy
11/12/01  The Bush-Putin Summit
10/29/01  The Darkness of South Asia