EDITORIAL

By Dimitris Agouridis

(CEO of INTUS Group of Companies: a group of specialized, multidisciplinary companies servicing the public sector and Utilities industry, with focus on Damage Prevention, Construction of Utilities’ Infrastructure and Subsurface Utility Engineering. He has been in the O&G Exploration Industry for more than 25 years with extensive R&D and services in the field. Mr. Dimitris Agouridis is the CEO of IDTechonogies Inc., an R&D company with expertise in Geospatial Technologies, Operations Resource Planning Systems and Technologies involving Hardware, Software and Network Communications designs. INTUS Smartcities offers advanced “solutions” to industries and municipalities including the “Smartpolis” platform which enables the transformation of municipalities to Smart Cities. Mr. Dimitris Agouridis has degrees in Engineering, Applied Math, and Exploration Geophysics with Graduate work in Satellite Altimetry applied to Offshare Hydrocarbon Exploration. INTUS is an Associate Member of the Southern States Energy Board (USA). Mr. Dimitris Agouridis also has extensive collaboration experience with high level Technology Groups such as JPL Laboratories from NASA, Raytheon USA, Georgia Tech Universities, and the National Research Council of Canada)

Copyright: @ 2021 Dimitris Agouridis, INTUS, Smartcities, Inc, IDT Technologies Inc, Canada) – Posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 25 February 2021.

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

Introduction

Natural disasters are part of life and have occurred throughout human history. Between fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcano eruptions or floods, disasters have been well-documented and, on many occasions, have also caused the complete eradication of entire cities and the deaths of thousands of victims. Read more

A Strategic Report

Copyright:@ 2021 Mediterranean-Asian Investigative Journalists. Reposted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 26 February 2021.

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In a shocking expose, Turkish sources have disclosed about creation of a propaganda team by Turkey and Pakistan through mutual collaboration.

The sources revealed that in the new paradigm, prominent Turkish state news outlets have shifted from recruiting Western journalists and to hire Pakistani and Indian Kashmiri journalists in large numbers. The source suggested that the recruitments are so rapid that around one-fourth of top and middle-range posts in TRT World have been occupied by journalists from the Indian sub-continent. ..Read more

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 February 2021

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Yemen has been embroiled in a bloody power struggle since 2014 between its government, supported by Saudi Arabia, and Iran backed Houthi rebels, who control the capital Sana'a and most of the north. The scope and scale of Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen has to be seen in the broader context of the regional conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a battle over regional hegemony that is being waged between Shiite Iran and its allies and a Sunni Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia at a number of friction points across the Middle East including Yemen....Read more

An all-Winners Game.

Vasileios Valasakis
(Chairman of a financial Institution in the United Kingdom and holds an MA from Georgetown University in International Relations and National Security. He has also earned a Certificate in Terrorism and Counterterrorism from the University of St Andrews, UK)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 February 2021

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‘Some things benefit from shocks;
they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility,
randomness, disorder, and stressors;
and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty’
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the House of Lords, the state of HM’s Union and the future and security of the former empire are openly debated. Philosophical subject-matters, however, are usually not eligible for public debate as the peers prefer to devote their time in more mundane issues of non-financial significance.... Read more

Strategic Report

Dionysios Dragonas
(Postgraduate Student, MSc Crisis and Security Management, Leiden University, the Netherlands & RIEAS Senior Analyst)

A. Preface

Thomas Jefferson once said that “information is the currency of democracy”. But what happens when the currency is misshaped, manipulated and dubious enough to lead to its denial? Is this when democracy collapses? This is not the case when powerful allies exist, within the spectrum of the public sphere, remaining vigilant and confronting challenges invisible to the public eye. For decades national intelligence services have incarnated a crucial role in assisting leaders to acquire and utilize information that reassures the survival of the State, by protecting it against all threats, foreign and domestic (Stout & Warner, 2018)...Read more

An Analysis

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Posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 31 January 2021.
"Originally posted at theperiscope.substack.com and shared here by permission."

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Perpetual Growth, or PG, is a wonderful theory, a sweet dream come true, the chosen baby of modern capitalism. It posits that it is capitalism that controls the inner dynamic of pushing production of everything beyond limits imposed by Nature and human endurance. “Capital” is central to PG theory. Karl Marx defined capital as the string of “Commodity-Money-Commodity,” whereas commodity is any material thing that can be produced for use by the consumer. Money is the means of allowing the exchange of “things” for profit (profit being the great bogeyman in the eyes of socialists and communists.).Read more