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Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer
Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer Saudis increased purchases 192% over five years Jason Ditz Posted on March 10, 2019Categories NewsTags Saudi Arabia Most reports on international arms sales focus on the biggest sellers. That inevitably means the United States, the largest exporter by far in the growing market. You can’t have sales without buyers, however, and that […]
The Trend Continues: Romania Introduces a Bill to Repatriate its Gold Reserves
The Trend Continues: Romania Introduces a Bill to Repatriate its Gold Reserves The trend is accelerating, just as I predicted it would. Countries all over the globe are growing anxious, as the geopolitical atmosphere of the world continues to heat up, threatening to hit a boiling point. Central bankers and government officials who see the […]
Damascus To Become A “Ruinous Heap”?: Syria Threatens To Attack The Golan Heights And Israel Prepares For War
Damascus To Become A “Ruinous Heap”?: Syria Threatens To Attack The Golan Heights And Israel Prepares For War The winds of war are blowing once again, and it isn’t going to take much to spark a major conflict in the Middle East. This week is the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the civil war […]
Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, The Rise of the Hardliners
Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, The Rise of the Hardliners I’ll tell you when the nightmare that TomDispatch regular Bob Dreyfuss raises so eloquently first hit me hard. I’m talking about the possibility that the next U.S. military disaster of the twenty-first century might be Iran. That country has, of course, had a significant spot on Washington’s war-making to-do list […]
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia An illustration from a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Russia’s Turn to its Asian Past” depicting Vladimir Putin as Genghis Khan. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as fifteen years since the Palestinian-American intellectual’s passing. To bid farewell to […]
Pakistan Is Ready For War: PM Khan
Pakistan Is Ready For War: PM Khan On Friday Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said the country was ready for war and its army would respond if attacked by India or “any superpower” during a speech in southeast Pakistan’s Chachro town, according to Al Masdar News based on televised footage. “If someone, if it is India or any superpower, wishes to […]
A Modest Proposal: Don’t Start a Nuclear War
A Modest Proposal: Don’t Start a Nuclear War In a matter of minutes, as easily as sending a tweet, a sitting U.S. president could decide to launch a nuclear attack, without anyone else’s approval or authorization. In a matter of minutes, millions of lives would be lost, and millions of futures halted permanently. At my […]
Presstitutes Turn Blind Eye to UN Report on Venezuela
Presstitutes Turn Blind Eye to UN Report on Venezuela Washington and the Convict Appointed to Overthrow Venezuela Continue the Lies Don’t you think something is fishy when the presstitutes orchestrate a fake news “humanitarian crisis” in Venezuela, but totally ignore the real humanitarian crises in Yemen and Gaza? Don’t you think something is really very […]
Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea
Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea It’s the second, but no less ludicrous, attempt in one week to sway the opinion of the public and President Donald Trump against the concept of denuclearization and peaceful dialogue with North Korea. A March 8, 2019 report from National Public Radio (NPR) follows another by NBC […]
Venezuela Deploys Troops “To Protect National Power Grid” From US “Aggression”
Venezuela Deploys Troops “To Protect National Power Grid” From US “Aggression” update: Though some parts of Venezuela’s power grid have reportedly begun to come back online after the country was plunged into nation-wide darkness beginning Thursday evening, the mass blackout crisis continues, which Caracas has blamed on US-orchestrated saboteurs. To prevent further “sabotage” Venezuela’s Defense Ministry […]
Venezuela Now 24 Hours In Darkness; Maduro Blames US “Electricity War”
Venezuela Now 24 Hours In Darkness; Maduro Blames US “Electricity War” Venezuela’s worst ever power outage in recent history has continued since Thursday, as video and photos continue to come out of the cash and resource strapped country showing entire cities blanketed in darkness. Stretching into day two of the mass electrical shutdown, 23 out of […]
Kashmir Conflict Has Riyadh On Edge
Kashmir Conflict Has Riyadh On Edge Just days after Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman finished his charm-offensive Asian trip to Pakistan, India, and China, the ever-simmering tensions between Pakistan and India flared up again over Kashmir—the territory the two countries have been disputing since 1947 when Britain partitioned its colonies and India and […]
Default Or Exit: A Battle Between Italy And The EU Is Inevitable
Default Or Exit: A Battle Between Italy And The EU Is Inevitable There is a dual Italian crisis brewing in the European Union. On the one hand, it is a political, or even geopolitical, crisis. Italy is undermining the unity of the European Union; blocking the EU’s recognition of those behind the coup in Venezuela […]
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy Bloomberg dropped a bombshell on Thursday, citing three high level sources familiar with US-German talks at last month’s Munich Security Conference who revealed US Vice President Mike Pence tried to persuade German Chancellor Angela Merkel to directly provoke Russia by sending German ships through the Kerch Strait, the two mile wide […]
US Admiral Warns About ‘Hazardous’ Military Buildup In South China Sea
US Admiral Warns About ‘Hazardous’ Military Buildup In South China Sea Though it rarely makes headlines in the US, the simmering rivalry between American and Chinese military forces has prompted some to declare the South China Sea – where Beijing has been building out its military and naval infrastructure in defiance of international court rulings […]
