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Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands
Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands The Israel-Hezbollah war continues spreading and expanding along the border region, as on Wednesday the Shia paramilitary group backed by Iran fired some 160 missiles into Israel after the IDF killed a top Hezbollah commander, Taleb Sami Abdullah, in south Lebanon the day prior. According to details from […]
De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It
De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It BRICS in Nizhny Novgorod, Crickets’ Silence, Saudi Arabia, and Bridges (Away from the U.S. Dollar) This past week has been a real turning point in the de-dollarization trend we’ve been talking about in these pages. Funny enough, the media seems to be completely oblivious to most […]
The End Of The Petrodollar
The End Of The Petrodollar The Saudis, New Chapter in Energy Economics, De-dollarization, and the American-Made Pressure Cooker “Oil is too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” ~ Henry Kissinger Just last Sunday, one of the most significant economic deals of the century came to an end. The long-standing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s… It seems nowadays we’re always trapped in the silly season of election campaigning. Perhaps my memory is foggy but where it used to be a short window of inane proclamations and ever-grander promises (that never […]
The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage
The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage The feebleness of the US response to a Russian incursion into Kharviv, which was to prevent further strikes on civilian targets in the border city of Belgorod, and the quick Russian counter-moves, confirms how the Collective West has no good options, even […]
Kiev’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III
Kiev’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III It can’t be ruled out that Zelensky might task one of his pilots with carrying out a mission directly from NATO territory without first stopping at a Kiev-controlled airfield in order to provoke Russia into striking the base from which […]
Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May
Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May Russia’s budget revenues from oil and gas soared by 73.5% in January-May of 2024 compared to the first five months of 2023, according to data from Russia’s finance ministry released on Monday. Between January and May 2024, the revenues for the Russian federal budget from […]
Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather than Fearing Change
Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather than Fearing Change There is much legitimate (as well as dramatic) talk about the failing US, its debased currency and its identity-fractured/inflation-taxed middle-class which has been increasingly described more aptly as the working poor. The End, or Just Change? But is America coming to an end? Will the USD lose its world […]
Seriously… Governments around the world are telling citizens to prepare for war
Seriously… Governments around the world are telling citizens to prepare for war You don’t need a high-tech mountain bunker to get ready for a potential crisis. The time to start is now. We may be closer to World War 3 than at any other time in history. At least that’s what many political commentators are […]
Are They TRYING to Start a Nuclear War?
Are They TRYING to Start a Nuclear War? The steady path toward World War III continues. U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine in the war with Russia has been one long failure, but that hasn’t stopped them from escalating the war with new weapons and tactics. Russia has met the escalation with its own escalation […]
Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal
Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal Russian president reiterates in news conference that attacking NATO countries is a ‘crazy’ idea but warns against Ukraine interference. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that his country would not rule out using nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or territory were threatened. On Wednesday, Putin met in […]
US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy State-ordered Purge of Truth-Tellers in Time of War. Scott Ritter Passport Seized, WaPo Smears Indy Journalists Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight yesterday by US officials and his passport confiscated in a startling new development in the government’s open drive to censor and silence critics […]
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen A lot of mainstream-adjacent progressives act like Gaza is some radical deviation from normal US behavior, which is infantile nonsense. The US inflicts similar horrors on the world all the time; the only major difference is (A) this one’s being live-streamed and (B) […]
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization Moving industrialization offshore can look like a good idea at first. But as fossil fuel energy supplies deplete, this strategy works less well. Countries doing the mining and manufacturing may be less interested in trading. Also, the broken supply lines of 2020 and 2021 showed that transferring major industries […]
