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The Pentagon Fails Audit – $21 Trillion in Transactions Could Not Be Traced, Documented, or Explained
The Pentagon Fails Audit – $21 Trillion in Transactions Could Not Be Traced, Documented, or Explained WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are […]
Pompeo: US/Saudi Partnership ‘Vital’ – American Taxpayers May Disagree!
Pompeo: US/Saudi Partnership ‘Vital’ – American Taxpayers May Disagree! Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has published a bizarre op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Saudi Arabia has been a guarantor of stability in the Middle East and a bulwark against “expansionist” Iran. Perhaps he forgot about Saudi support for jihadists in Syria and […]
Russia Responds to Ukraine’s Provocation and How Martial Law Affects Minsk II
Russia Responds to Ukraine’s Provocation and How Martial Law Affects Minsk II Short Interview with Russian UN Deputy Permanent Rep Dimitry Polanskiy about the Kerch incident and how Ukraine’s declaring Martial Law affects Donbass. On November 25, 2018, Russian border patrol intercepted three Ukrainian warships on course for the Kerch bridge. Ignoring previous agreements, Ukraine did not tell […]
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China Photo Source DVIDSHUB | CC BY 2.0 On November 26 the New York Times asserted that “Russia’s seizure [on November 25] of three Ukrainian naval vessels was the first overt armed conflict between the two since 2014, when Russian forces occupied Crimea.” There was no armed conflict in Crimea […]
These Countries Are Quickly and Quietly Dumping the Dollar
These Countries Are Quickly and Quietly Dumping the Dollar Over the past few months, there has been a steady uptick in the number of countries dumping significant portions of their dollar holdings. This is causing many people to worry whether or not the US economy is in for a massive shock sooner, later, or somewhere […]
When you want to sanction States, you call them « terrorists »
When you want to sanction States, you call them « terrorists » The new unilateral sanctions by the United States against Iran, Russia and Syria add to the previous actions concerning the same three targets. They now form the most unforgiving embargo in History. The way in which they have been organised is illegal according to the definition […]
Anglo-American Psy-op Agency Exposed
Anglo-American Psy-op Agency Exposed In 2015 an organization called the Integrity Initiative was created “to counter disinformation and other forms of malign influence being conducted by states and sub-state actors seeking to interfere in democratic processes and to undermine public confidence in national political institutions.” As the only government that interferes in the internal affairs […]
What’s Behind the US-Saudi Nuclear Mega-Deal?
What’s Behind the US-Saudi Nuclear Mega-Deal? Up to 16 nuclear power plants for civilian purposes? Really? Last week, the NY Times ran a front-page story on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to purchase nuclear fuel enrichment capabilities and as many as 16 nuclear power generating plants from the US. The principal concern expressed here was the Saudi’s insistence on […]
Black Sea Provocation… Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs?
Black Sea Provocation… Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs? The latest potentially disastrous flare-up in violence between the Kiev regime and Russia near the Black Sea’s Kerch Strait is clearly a blatant provocation aimed at strengthening the autocratic regime under President Petro Poroshenko. It’s also a reckless gambit to push Kiev’s madcap agenda for joining NATO […]
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, over 100 U.S. scholars, intellectuals, and activists published the open letter to Senator Bernie Sanders below and invited others to add their names to it. Sanders was working to force a new Senate vote on ending, or at least reducing, U.S. participation in the war […]
Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles To Crimea In Military Showdown With Ukraine
Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles To Crimea In Military Showdown With Ukraine Predictably the crisis that began on Sunday between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait is quickly worsening as Russia has announced plans to deploy more of its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Crimea. Adding to tensions, Reuters has further reported that a Russian warship has been dispatched […]
Foreword to Oil, Power and War
This month’s Museletter is my Foreword to Matthieu Auzanneau’s excellent new book Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History published by Chelsea Green Publishing. For information on where to get hold of a copy see the links at the end. Foreword to Oil, Power and War Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named Jed A […]
Russia Is Disadvantaged by Her Belief that the West Is Governed by Law
Russia Is Disadvantaged by Her Belief that the West Is Governed by Law Ukrainian military ships have violated Russian restrictions in the Sea of Azov and Articles 19 and 21 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Ukrainian Navy crossed the Russian sea border and entered a closed area of Russian […]
Murphy’s Law to the Rescue!
Murphy’s Law to the Rescue! What can go wrong will go wrong. It’s so fundamental to the operation of the universe that Sir Isaac Newton should have installed it between his 2nd and 3rd Laws of Motion — but he had his hands full losing a fortune in Britain’s South Sea Bubble circa 1721, after muttering to a colleague […]
