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Seeds Sown for Major Transatlantic Trade War Starting in May
Seeds Sown for Major Transatlantic Trade War Starting in May Trump wants a trade treaty with the EU to include agriculture. France says no. It only takes one. Trump has made a considerable number of trade threats only to eventually back down. Will it play out that way again? For a number of reasons, I […]
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Will Hasten Imperial Decline
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Will Hasten Imperial Decline There was a postwar order, but was it liberal? Like most political orders, it looked much better on paper than it did in practice and to the core members of the order than those on the margins… Liberal values were only remotely attached to the postwar […]
Trump Kicks the Sanctions Can on Iran Oil
Trump Kicks the Sanctions Can on Iran Oil Sanctions on Iran have failed. The weakness of the U.S. position in the oil markets is now complete. Donald Trump’s Energy Dominance strategy has failed. The announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R – The Eschaton) that no more sanctions waivers will be granted to importers […]
The Orchestration of Russiaphobia Is The Prelude To War
The Orchestration of Russiaphobia Is The Prelude To War The Russian Embassy in Washington has prepared an accurate 121-page report, THE RUSSIAGATE HYSTERIA: A CASE OF SEVERE RUSSOPHOBIA. https://washington.mid.ru/upload/iblock/3c3/3c3d1e3b69a4c228e99bfaeb5491ecd7.pdf Everyone should read this report. It documents the fake news, lies, violations of diplomatic standards and international law, and gratuitous aggressive actions taken against Russia during the […]
Iran Threatens To Close Strait Of Hormuz If US Blocks Its Oil Exports
Iran Threatens To Close Strait Of Hormuz If US Blocks Its Oil Exports With oil surging to a six month high after a now confirmed report that Trump will not reissue Iranian oil export waivers after they expire on May 2, removing up to 1 million barrels from the market… … Tehran has gone on the offensive and on […]
The Triumph of Evil
The Triumph of Evil Today (April 17) I heard a NPR “news” report that described the democratically elected president of Venezuela as “the Venezuelan dictator Maduro.” By repeating over and over that a democratically elected president is a dictator, the presstitutes create that image of Maduro in the minds of vast numbers of peoples who […]
Fragility in the World 2019
Fragility in the World 2019 Yemen is labelled as the most fragile country by Fragile States Index in 2019. Finland is now the least fragile country. Source: https://fragilestatesindex.org/ (Highlights from Fragile States Index) “This year, Yemen claimed the top position for the first time as a result of its civil war and humanitarian catastrophe. Although Yemen’s […]
The Strategy of Controlled Chaos
The Strategy of Controlled Chaos Everyone against everyone else – this is the media image of chaos which is spreading across the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, from Libya to Syria. It is a situation before which even Washington seems powerless. But in reality, Washington is not the sorcerer’s apprentice unable to control the forces […]
Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight
Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight It is depressing to observe how the United States of America has become the evil empire. Having served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and in the Central Intelligence Agency for the second half of the Cold War, I had an insider’s viewpoint […]
American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump
American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump He’s failed to deliver his promised withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria, vetoed an order to get out of Yemen, and expanded the U.S. bombing of Somalia, all while eyeing Iran. Here’s a statement it might be hard to disagree with: American war is off the charts. […]
The U.S. Is Losing Influence In The World’s Biggest Oil Region
The U.S. Is Losing Influence In The World’s Biggest Oil Region Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi’s visit to the White House on April 9, 2019, resulted in one of the worst setbacks for U.S. Middle Eastern policy under the Donald Trump Administration. What was supposed to be a fence-mending exercise between the two countries essentially […]
Respecting the Other
Respecting the Other One of my old friends’ father was at one time something of a Cold Warrior: he did something or other for the US defense establishment—nuclear submarine-related, if I recall correctly. This work activity apparently led him to develop a particularly virulent form of Russophobia; not so much a phobia as a pronounced […]
Canada to Russia: Interference Is Okay If It Destabilizes You but Not the Other Way Around
Canada to Russia: Interference Is Okay If It Destabilizes You but Not the Other Way Around In the midst of one of the most de-stabilizing scandals to rock Canada in years, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on April 5 that the threat of “Foreign interference” going into the October 2019 elections was at an all-time high. Sitting beside […]
The US’ War Against Iran & Venezuela’s “Deep States” Is Going Public
The US’ War Against Iran & Venezuela’s “Deep States” Is Going Public The US’ desire to dismantle the network of Iranian influence in Latin America and specifically in Venezuela speaks to its commitment to counter the regional sway of its rivals’ “deep states”, though it’s hitherto unprecedented for any country to make such a crusade […]
