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Pakistan Suspends Bilateral Trade With India, Expels Envoy
Pakistan Suspends Bilateral Trade With India, Expels Envoy The Kashmir crisis triggered by India’s revoking of Article 370 from its constitution has exploded into a fast escalating renewed crisis between nuclear armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan. Merely within the last 24-hours Pakistan has recalled its ambassador while expelling its Indian envoy, and more importantly has taken the drastic step […]
Pentagon Warns It Will Prevent “Unacceptable” Turkish Invasion Of Northern Syria
Pentagon Warns It Will Prevent “Unacceptable” Turkish Invasion Of Northern Syria Turkey has for days been poised to unilaterally invade northern Syria over US objections, which Ankara officials say is to establish a 32 kilometer (20 mile) inside the war torn country, giving Turkey complete control of a region where the Syrian Kurdish YPG operates (People’s Protection […]
Forget Iran, Maximum Pressure Has Shifted to China
Forget Iran, Maximum Pressure Has Shifted to China In the past week the pressure on China by the U.S. has escalated daily. Since the trade delegation came back from China with lunch barely digested the Trump Administration has gone into over drive on demonizing China here at home. From finally declaring China a currency manipulator after years of threats […]
Pakistan’s Army “Prepared” To Support Kashmir As PM Khan Warns “More Suicide Attacks” Coming
Pakistan’s Army “Prepared” To Support Kashmir As PM Khan Warns “More Suicide Attacks” Coming After yesterday’s unprecedented revocation of an over 50-year old constitutional article which gave Indian-administered Kashmir special autonomous status, Pakistan’s army has shot back in provocative statements saying it will “go to any extent” to support Kashmiris amid an Indian military crackdown. “Pakistan Army firmly stands by the Kashmiris […]
Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy Old power station, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Control of oil has long been a key aim of U.S. foreign policy. The Paris climate agreements and any other Green programs to reduce the pace of global warming are viewed as threatening the aim of dominating world […]
The Declining Empire of Chaos Is Going Nuts Over Iran
The Declining Empire of Chaos Is Going Nuts Over Iran The transition in recent years from a unipolar to a multipolar world order has created international tensions that seem to threaten to escalate into clashes between regional and global powers. In 2014 we were almost at the point of no return in Ukraine following the […]
“New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia
“New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia China’s Global Times — the communist country’s hawkish, belligerent state tabloid — has responded to the Pentagon’s Friday announcement stating the US is looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia “within months,” warning “it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.” Its editorial board, long understood as a […]
4 Reasons To Expect Even More US-China Trade (And Currency) War Escalation
4 Reasons To Expect Even More US-China Trade (And Currency) War Escalation As we noted earlier when summarizing some of the more notable Wall Street reactions to China’s jarring trade war escalation, we highlighted the take of Morgan Stanley’s chief US public policy strategist, Michael Zezas, who said that he saw incentives for the U.S. to escalate […]
Kashmir On Lockdown: India Strips Muslim-Majority Region Of Autonomy, Troops Move In
Kashmir On Lockdown: India Strips Muslim-Majority Region Of Autonomy, Troops Move In In a dramatic escalation following a worsening crisis, which over the weekend saw intensive shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) that separates Indian-controlled and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir, New Delhi has revoked the key constitutional article which gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status. The unprecedented move signals India […]
China Is Extremely Angry, And They Now Consider The United States To Be Enemy #1
China Is Extremely Angry, And They Now Consider The United States To Be Enemy #1 Have relations between the United States and China finally reached the point of no return? At this moment, it would be difficult to overstate how angry the Chinese are with the United States. Chinese officials are firmly blaming the United […]
Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker Accused Of Smuggling Fuel
Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker Accused Of Smuggling Fuel In what will be seen as another escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on July 31, adding to rising concerns about the safety of shipping in a region crucial to oil exports. The […]
As US Ditches INF, Mid-Range Missiles To Be Deployed In Asia “Within Months”
As US Ditches INF, Mid-Range Missiles To Be Deployed In Asia “Within Months” A mere day after the US officially exited the landmark Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) which had cooled the Cold War arms race, preventing a build-up in Europe, the Pentagon is looking to deploy intermediate range conventional missiles in the Pacific region “within months”. Noting […]
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents Taking over from Britain’s colonial role in exploiting the country, the US has bullied and tried to intimidate Iran for decades. The ongoing pretext for strangling Iran economically is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly finds no evidence for […]
