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“I Oppose Interventionism, But-” But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist.
“I Oppose Interventionism, But-” But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist. In a recent interview with The Corbett Report, the Ron Paul Institute‘s Daniel McAdams spoke disdainfully of those ostensibly anti-interventionist libertarians who picked this moment of all times to loudly and aggressively condemn Venezuela’s president Maduro, just as the US power establishment is ramping up […]
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela China won’t give up on embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro anytime soon even as the US-led international noose of “delegitimizing” hangs around the socialist strongman, according to government statements released on Friday. Beijing reaffirmed it maintains “normal state-to-state relations” and cooperation between the two sides “shouldn’t be undermined no matter how […]
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former […]
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, taking advantage of political bedlam inside the Donald Trump White House, has busied himself with “regime change” in Venezuela. Pompeo, working with National Security Adviser John Bolton and Iran-contra felon and arch-neo-conservative Elliott Abrams, worked secretly with Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “interim president,” Juan Guaido, to overthrow that nation’s […]
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable. This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, […]
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America On Friday, The New York Times continued its long, predictable tradition of backing U.S. coups in Latin America by publishing an editorial praising Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This will be the 10th such coup the paper has backed […]
Will Iran Sanctions Herald the Fall of the Imperial Dollar?
Will Iran Sanctions Herald the Fall of the Imperial Dollar? When the Trump administration unilaterally pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018 and announced it would reimpose sanctions against Iran, the European Union (EU) declared its commitment to preserving the agreement and finding ways for its companies to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Now, […]
Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off gold by 1971, its […]
Trump’s trade war isn’t about trade anymore — it’s plainly about beating China in the next great war
Trump’s trade war isn’t about trade anymore — it’s plainly about beating China in the next great war President Donald Trump’s trade war with China started with tariffs and talk of trade deficits but quickly moved to addressing deep US national-security concerns about Beijing spying and stealing technology. In 2018, the US’s trade deficit with […]
Children are the political tool of choice in the hands of shameless propagandists
Children are the political tool of choice in the hands of shameless propagandists Policy-making has been with us since the dawn of humanity and generally its rules are timeless. Governments, heads of states, diplomats, religious leaders – whether they are part of the establishment or in opposition – have employed various instruments in a bid […]
Controversial Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Could Be Operational By November
Controversial Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Could Be Operational By November In what would be an early geopolitical win for Moscow, German news agency DW reported yesterday, citing one of the project’s engineers, that the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline should be operational by November. Klaus Haussmann, an engineer at Nord Stream 2’s future landfall site […]
US Suspends Nuclear Arms Treaty Compliance
US Suspends Nuclear Arms Treaty Compliance In a sign that Russia might soon be deploying those new hypersonic missiles that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been showing off lately, Reuters reported that the US is preparing to suspend compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing four US officials, opening the door to the reintroduction of medium-range ground-based nuclear […]
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy In the latest salvo to emerge from the escalating fight between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s ruling Maduro regime over control of the South American country’s state-owned energy assets, the WSJ reports that in order to protect its operations, Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum is considering various […]
Europe Launches SWIFT Alternative To Fund Iran In Collision Course With Trump
Europe Launches SWIFT Alternative To Fund Iran In Collision Course With Trump In a move sure to unleash fury from the Trump administration, the European Union has announced it has set up a transactions channel with Iran to bypass US sanctions. The launch of INSTEX — or “Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges” — by France, Germany, and the […]
