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The West Fades. The Center Quietly Returns: The New Silk Road
The West Fades. The Center Quietly Returns: The New Silk Road If you think about that, it is funny that we tend to define ourselves as “Westerners.” Most civilizations and cultures in history have tended to see themselves as the center of the world, just think of China: it is supposed to be “the Middle […]
Pompeo Tells Israel It Has “Fundamental Right” To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region
Pompeo Tells Israel It Has “Fundamental Right” To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region “Our administration’s been very clear,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive Friday interview, published on Sunday. “Israel has the fundamental right to engage in activity that ensures the security of its people. It’s at the very core of what […]
A New Middle East Thanks to Putin
A New Middle East Thanks to Putin Peace in the Middle East is coming at us fast and we’re going to have Russian President Vladimir Putin to thank for it. The howls of agony coming from U.S. and European foreign policy centers are deafening. Pat Buchanan lists them in his latest article which asks if Putin is […]
Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack
Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack A section of Iran’s sprawling Abadan oil refinery in the southwest of the country went up in flames Saturday, and state media sources reported the emergency was under control as of Sunday morning. State media is describing it as “a fire in a canal carrying waste from Iran’s Abadan […]
Uncertainties following the Abqaiq attack have shrunk the world’s safe oil reserves by around half (part 1)
Uncertainties following the Abqaiq attack have shrunk the world’s safe oil reserves by around half (part 1) The world has returned to business as usual after the Saudis assured oil markets that production will be back soon and as oil prices have returned to pre-attack levels and even lower, indicating that oil traders focus on […]
Japan To Send Its Own Military Force To Strait Of Hormuz
Japan To Send Its Own Military Force To Strait Of Hormuz Ever since the new round of ‘tanker wars’ began in Strait of Hormuz in mid-June with a mysterious mine attack on multiple tankers, one involving a Japanese-owned ship, Tokyo has reportedly mulled sending a Japanese defense force to the area to help protect vital shipping lanes. […]
Iran Claims To Have Video Evidence Of Oil Tanker Attacks
Iran Claims To Have Video Evidence Of Oil Tanker Attacks By – Oct 16, 2019, 2:30 PM CDTJoin Our Community Iran has claimed that it has footage of last week’s attack on its oil tanker while off the Saudi Arabian Jeddah port, and it proves that the attacks were carried out by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and […]
ABC News Busted Using Gun Range Footage To Report Turkish ‘Slaughter’ Of Kurd Civilians
ABC News Busted Using Gun Range Footage To Report Turkish ‘Slaughter’ Of Kurd Civilians ABC News was just busted using two year old gun range footage while reporting on Turkey ‘slaughtering’ the kurds in the wake of a US withdrawal from the region. This video right here appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian […]
Did Everything Just Change?How material are this week’s QE & China deal announcements?
Did Everything Just Change?How material are this week’s QE & China deal announcements? It’s hard to imagine a more euphoric end to the week for bulls. Two weeks ago I issued a report titled Realistically, What’s Left To Power Asset Prices Higher? which claimed the bulls only hope was for a near-term resumption of QE (quantitative easing, aka “money […]
Eurozone
QUESTION: Hi Marty, I’m based here in South of England, within the commuter belt into London. The ECM forecasts an economic downturn 18.01.2020, and Europe looks to be at the epicentre. My own research tells me the job cuts in the auto sector in Germany are quite severe. How does all this play out after January? […]
US To Send ‘Thousands’ More Troops To Saudi Arabia
US To Send ‘Thousands’ More Troops To Saudi Arabia Reuters reports, citing defense or administration sources, that the US is set to send thousands of additional troops to Saudi Arabia in the wake of last month’s Aramco attacks. “The United States is planning to send a large number of additional forces to Saudi Arabia following the Sept. 14 attack on […]
Did China Just Announce the End of U.S. Primacy in the Pacific?
Did China Just Announce the End of U.S. Primacy in the Pacific? Last week’s military parade previewed a series of game-changing weapons that could neutralize American seapower. Military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles march during a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on […]
Iranian Oil Tanker Struck By 2 Missiles Near Saudi Port
Iranian Oil Tanker Struck By 2 Missiles Near Saudi Port Many questions remained unanswered early Friday after an attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea sent oil prices higher, in the latest attack on energy-industry infrastructure in an increasingly volatile part of the world. According to the New York Times, a fire erupted […]
Here’s How the New U.S.-China Trade Talks May End
Here’s How the New U.S.-China Trade Talks May End With the U.S. and China in the midst of a new round of high level trade talks, this Thursday marks 22 months since tariffs were launched and the trade war began. Far from being “easy to win”, the trade war has lasted far longer than most […]
