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Save The World By First Saving Yourself
Save The World By First Saving Yourself We each have a role to play in how the world recovers from the coming crisis Ripped from today’s headlines: Negative Interest Rates Are Coming And They Are Downright Terrifying (Yahoo! Finance) Earth’s Lungs Are Burning: Amazon Rainforest Which Contributes 20% Of Planet’s Oxygen Is On Fire What’s […]
China Responds To Trump’s “Barbaric” Tariffs: Vows To Fight “Until The End” And Have “The Last Laugh”
China Responds To Trump’s “Barbaric” Tariffs: Vows To Fight “Until The End” And Have “The Last Laugh” After Friday’s blitz of reciprocal trade war escalations, which saw a furious Trump slam the two “enemies of the state”, Fed Chair Powell and China president Xi, following China’s widely expected tariff hike retaliation and Powell’s uneventful Jackson […]
Beijing Enraged After US Navy Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait
Beijing Enraged After US Navy Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait With the 70th anniversary of the founding of the CPC looming, and Beijing staking out a more aggressive trade stance Friday morning by threatening retaliatory tariffs, the US picked the best – or worst – time to provoke Beijing, when a Navy ship sailed through the […]
Iranian Tanker Showdown Heads To Turkey
Iranian Tanker Showdown Heads To Turkey The Iranian tanker which had been detained for the past five weeks in Gilbraltar has suddenly switched its ship data to show it is headed to a Turkish port, instead of arriving at waters off southern Greece, as previously planned. Reuters has cited real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic to show the change in […]
US Officials Confirm Israel Behind Unprecedented Airstrikes On Iraq
US Officials Confirm Israel Behind Unprecedented Airstrikes On Iraq In an unprecedented escalation which could reshape alliances in the Middle East, American officials have confirmed that Israel was behind an airstrike on an Iraqi ammunition depot operated by a pro-Iran militia last month, according to The Associated Press: Two American officials said Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian […]
US Slams China’s Escalating Oil & Gas ‘Interference’ In Vietnam Recognized Waters
US Slams China’s Escalating Oil & Gas ‘Interference’ In Vietnam Recognized Waters Late this week, the US State Department accused China of escalating its coercive actions against Vietnam in the South China Sea. A spokesman said the US is “deeply concerned” China is continuing its interference with Vietnam’s longstanding oil and gas activities in the Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) claim. “This calls into […]
Another Tanker With Iranian Oil Now Headed For Syria, Intel Sources Say
Another Tanker With Iranian Oil Now Headed For Syria, Intel Sources Say A new report suggests we could be headed toward yet another Grace 1-type incident and showdown involving an Iranian tanker intercept by US or UK forces. A tanker full of Iranian oil is said to be currently on its way to Dubai, with an […]
Iran Warns US: Don’t Interfere With Tanker’s Passage, Mulls Naval Escort
Iran Warns US: Don’t Interfere With Tanker’s Passage, Mulls Naval Escort With the Grace 1 now released after two failed attempts of Washington to bring the Iranian tanker under US custody, since renamed the Adrian Darya and flying the Iranian flag, Tehran officials are still refusing to confirm its ultimate destination where it will offload its 2.1 million […]
Turkey-Syria War On The Horizon: Airstrikes Target Invading Turkish Army Convoy
Turkey-Syria War On The Horizon: Airstrikes Target Invading Turkish Army Convoy Turkey and Syria could be headed for war as their armies increasingly clash on front lines in southern Idlib, also amid a heavy aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian jets of al-Qaeda held Khan Sheikhoun. On Monday a Turkish convoy came under attack by Syrian airstrikes while traversing […]
British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir
British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir Though distance-wise Hong Kong and Kashmir may be about 4,000km (2,485 miles) apart, they have in common a history of being scarred by the crimes of British colonialism. This history and those scars cannot be abstracted when it comes to grasping the […]
Will Governments ever Listen Before there is Blood in the Streets?
Will Governments ever Listen Before there is Blood in the Streets? COMMENT: Thank you for ‘Why Private Blogs’. You should get goose bumps once in a while about your work~,the project is massive in scale, certainly worthy of my respect and everyone else in readerville and your employ as well. This piece is well written and […]
US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran
US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran UAE trying to balance regional interests with keeping US happy Secret talks have been ongoing between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, focused on sharing intelligence against Iran and possibly military cooperation. The talks have progressed to the point that the US is now joining […]
Iraq Closes Airspace Even To US Coalition Flights After Suspected Israeli Raid
Iraq Closes Airspace Even To US Coalition Flights After Suspected Israeli Raid In what is a severely under reported but perhaps the most alarming development out of the Middle East this week, Iraq’s government has said it’s ready to down any aircraft violating its airspace amid a blanket ban on ‘unauthorized’ flights not specifically approved by the prime minister’s office. Military Times reported […]
Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War
Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War FORGET URANIUM ENRICHMENT: Has Iran mastered time travel? Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal. One line in particular stood out from […]
US Unveils Seizure Warrant For Iran’s Grace 1 Tanker
US Unveils Seizure Warrant For Iran’s Grace 1 Tanker Apparently the month long saga of the Grace-1 is not at all over, and may now seriously escalate even after it was set free from custody. Just as the Iranian supertanker was released from custody off Gibraltar and is preparing to make its way into the Mediterranean, a seizure warrant filed […]
