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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth A nuclear Armageddon in the making in South Asia Undoubtedly, for nearly two decades the most dangerous place on Earth has been the Indian-Pakistani border in Kashmir. It’s possible that a small spark from artillery and rocket exchanges across that border might — given the known military doctrines of the two nuclear-armed neighbors — lead […]
UN Arms Chief Says Nuclear War is Closer Than Ever Since WW2
UN ARMS CHIEF SAYS NUCLEAR WAR IS CLOSER THAN EVER SINCE WW2 A United Nations arms official has declared nuclear war to be closer than it has ever been since World War II. The geopolitical climate is so divisive and disturbing right now, that globalists are actually telling us a nuclear war could be coming. […]
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’ A lot has happened since then-candidate Trump said he would label China a currency manipulator on ‘day one’ should he make it to the Oval Office. So far, at least, the pledge to hold Beijing accountable for manipulating its currency wouldn’t fall into the ‘promises kept’ column. But […]
The Belligerence of Empire
The Belligerence of Empire Photograph Source: Sgt. Ajenis Nunez – Public Domain “Capitalism’s gratuitous wars and sanctioned greed have jeopardized the planet and filled it with refugees. Much of the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the government of the United States. Seventeen years after invading Afghanistan, after bombing it into the […]
Will The U.S. Slap Sanctions On Nord Stream 2?
Will The U.S. Slap Sanctions On Nord Stream 2? There is a growing push in the U.S. Congress to slap sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline under construction would carry Russian natural gas to Germany, and has been a lightning rod of controversy both in Europe and across the Atlantic. Many governments […]
Iran, Venezuela and the Throes of Empire
Iran, Venezuela and the Throes of Empire Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair With the Trump administration threatening war against Iran and Venezuela, the question of how the U.S. was brought to this point needs to be considered. To argue that current circumstances are particular to this administration is to overlook U.S. history vis-a-vis both Iran […]
India Answers Pakistan’s Missile Test With Daring Raid On “Most Wanted Militant” In Kashmir
India Answers Pakistan’s Missile Test With Daring Raid On “Most Wanted Militant” In Kashmir After a couple months of uneasy calm following the late February crisis over Kashmir involving two down Indian jets which allegedly entered Pakistani-administered territory to raid a “terror compound” it appears the long disputed border region is heating up again. And this […]
Russia Condemns US “Warships” Off Venezuela’s Coast – Says Coup Attempts Ongoing
Russia Condemns US “Warships” Off Venezuela’s Coast – Says Coup Attempts Ongoing We might chalk it up to stating the obvious, but by and large the media has moved on from Venezuela, however, the coup plotters in Washington have not. Apparently the Kremlin also wishes to remind the world of this, given its ongoing support to Maduro […]
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System The Impending Crisis At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the […]
Trump Mulls Pentagon Plan To Deploy 10,000 Troops To “Monitor Iran”
Trump Mulls Pentagon Plan To Deploy 10,000 Troops To “Monitor Iran” The White House is set to mull a Pentagon plan for deployment of 10,000 new troops to the Middle East on Thursday following heightened tension with Iran, the AP reported Wednesday. It’s as yet unclear whether President Trump will sign off on the full number, but […]
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs Nearly everyone wonders, “Why is Donald Trump crazy enough to impose tariffs on imports from other countries? How could this possibly make sense?” As long as the world economy is growing rapidly, it makes sense for countries to cooperate with each other. With the […]
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait Just in case the “world tech and trade war I” was not enough to send US-China relations back decades, on Wednesday the US military sent two Navy destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, “angering China” at a time […]
Could China dump its US Treasuries to fight the trade war? A contrarian view is emerging in Beijing
Could China dump its US Treasuries to fight the trade war? A contrarian view is emerging in Beijing As trade war escalates, market talk is emerging that Beijing will use monetary weapons to retaliate as ‘last resort’ China’s US Treasury holdings in March dropped by US$10.4 billion while foreign exchange reserves rose to highest level […]
The Boycott Begins: Chinese Company Orders Employees To “Stop Using American Products, Eating At KFC”
The Boycott Begins: Chinese Company Orders Employees To “Stop Using American Products, Eating At KFC” In a harbinger of what’s to come as the US-China trade war gets worse by the day, a Chinese company has told all of its employees to boycott American products and halt international travels to the U.S., reported The Epoch Times. […]
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of the official OPCW report on the […]
