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China’s Nuclear Option to Sell US Treasurys, Report 19 May
China’s Nuclear Option to Sell US Treasurys, Report 19 May There is a drumbeat pounding on a monetary issue, which is now rising into a crescendo. The issue is: China might sell its holdings of Treasury bonds—well over $1 trillion—and crash the Treasury bond market. Since the interest rate is inverse to the bond price, […]
Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted
Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted Once again the Washington Post (5/14/19) presents the United States as “drifting toward war”—this time with Iran. The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19) had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism.” […]
Xi Sends Trump A Message: Rare-Earth Export Ban Is Coming
Xi Sends Trump A Message: Rare-Earth Export Ban Is Coming Back in April of 2018, when the trade war with China was still in its early stages, we explained that among the five “nuclear” options Beijing has to retaliate against the US, one was the block of rare-earth exports to the US, potentially crippling countless US supply […]
That Time John Bolton Said It’s Good To Lie About War
That Time John Bolton Said It’s Good To Lie About War Journalist Whitney Webb recently tweeted a 2010 video clip I’d never seen before featuring US National Security Advisor John Bolton defending the use of deception in advancing military agendas, which highlights something we should all be paying attention to as Trump administration foreign policy becomes increasingly Boltonized. On […]
Russia Announces Delivery Of More Supplies To Venezuela’s Military
Russia Announces Delivery Of More Supplies To Venezuela’s Military Even after repeat threats issued to Moscow from President Trump himself — including recently saying bluntly “Russia has to get out” — the Russian military now appears so unconcerned by such warnings that it’s simply announcing its Maduro support actions ahead of time via state media. Russian news agency TASS said Friday, citing a military-diplomatic source, […]
On Hostile Coexistence with China
On Hostile Coexistence with China President Trump’s trade war with China has quickly metastasized into every other domain of Sino-American relations. Washington is now trying to dismantle China’s interdependence with the American economy, curb its role in global governance, counter its foreign investments, cripple its companies, block its technological advance, punish its many deviations from […]
The OPCW, Douma & The Skripals
The OPCW, Douma & The Skripals In view of the latest revelations from the leaked report, which seem to prove that at least some elements of the Douma “chemical attack” were entirely staged, we want to take look back at the chaotic events of Spring 2018. What was the agenda behind the Douma false flag?Why […]
Exxon Evacuates All Foreign Staff From Iraqi Oilfield On Security Concerns
Exxon Evacuates All Foreign Staff From Iraqi Oilfield On Security Concerns At the end of a week that’s witnessed a dangerous US military build-up in the Persian Gulf amid anti-Iran war rhetoric, Exxon Mobil has evacuated all of its foreign staff from Iraq’s West Qurna 1 oilfield, flying them to Dubai until “the situation is secure,” according […]
US-Iran Showdown Is One False-Flag Attack Away From Global Calamity
US-Iran Showdown Is One False-Flag Attack Away From Global Calamity Hypocritical to the core, the execution of false-flag events spare aggressive states the ignominy of appearing in public as the warmongering psychopaths they are, lest their subjects get the wrong idea as to exactly who is governing over them. The last thing tyrannical rulers want, […]
Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops
Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops Talk of US attacking Iran has many Iraqi officials keen to get rid of them. Iraq has spent the better share of the last 16 years under US military occupation. Despite this, time and again US-Iraqi relations have come to be defined by US hostility toward neighboring Iran, and Iraq’s […]
Top Iran Commander Invokes 9/11 To Say US Is “Frail”; A “Full Intelligence War” Is On
Top Iran Commander Invokes 9/11 To Say US Is “Frail”; A “Full Intelligence War” Is On lran is currently in “a full intelligence war” with the United States, according to statements by the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami on Saturday. “We are in a full intelligence war with the United States and the enemies of the […]
Fake Has Become Realer Than Real And The Dogs Of War Are There To Keep It That Way
Fake Has Become Realer Than Real And The Dogs Of War Are There To Keep It That Way America’s self-imagined custodianship of human rights and freedom epitomize problems associated with fake prophesies. That Americans now rally behind the latest battle-cry of the Republic, ‘Make America Great Again’, indicate that they are indifferent to the fact […]
The Liberal Embrace of War
The Liberal Embrace of War American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South […]
Beijing Backs Iran, “Firmly Opposes” Unilateral US Sanctions
Beijing Backs Iran, “Firmly Opposes” Unilateral US Sanctions In the latest sign of Beijing’s frustration with the US, the Chinese leadership have reiterated their opposition to American sanctions against Iran. After a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Chinese Foregin Minister Wang Yi reiterated Beijing’s ‘firm opposition’ to unilateral US sanctions against Iran. CHINA’S […]
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin Climate change is the apex crisis of all time and the US military is the prime crisis […]
