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Iran’s Top Oil Customers Resist U.S. Calls For Zero Imports
Iran’s Top Oil Customers Resist U.S. Calls For Zero Imports Just a few days before U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports return on November 5, the keywords about how much of Iran’s oil will come off the market are ‘lack of clarity’. On the one hand, it’s unclear how much Iranian oil will really be […]
Risky Business
RISKY BUSINESS “In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs accidentally crashed in rural North Carolina. A low technology voltage switch was the only thing that prevented a 4-megaton nuclear bomb with 250 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima from detonating on […]
Russia, India And Iran To Cooperate On New Trade Route Alternative To Suez Canal
Russia, India And Iran To Cooperate On New Trade Route Alternative To Suez Canal After their leaders pledged to strengthen bilateral trade and military cooperation at a bilateral summit last month, Russia and India announced earlier this week that they had sealed a long-discussed $6 billion arms deal despite threats of economic sanctions from Washington. […]
Mossad Assisted Denmark In Thwarting Terror Plot; Iran Slams Allegation As “False Flag”
Mossad Assisted Denmark In Thwarting Terror Plot; Iran Slams Allegation As “False Flag” Mossad has claimed responsibility for tipping off Danish authorities after they thwarted an alleged terror plot by Tehran to assassinate three opposition figures living in Denmark, according to a senior Israeli intelligence official quoted in the Times of Israel. This comes days after […]
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War When it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. “Now we have a new Cold War,” commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump […]
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China A Pentagon official said Monday that Taiwan should increase its military spending to safeguard continued peace and security both across the Taiwan Strait and within the Indo-Pacific, reported Focus Taiwan. David Helvey, U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for […]
Russia And China Are Apparently Both Under The Impression That War With The United States Is Coming…
Russia And China Are Apparently Both Under The Impression That War With The United States Is Coming… Could it be possible that the U.S. is heading for a major war? If you ask most Americans that question, they will look at you like you are crazy. For most people in this country, war with either […]
US Approves Waivers On Iranian Oil Imports As Supply Panic Fades
US Approves Waivers On Iranian Oil Imports As Supply Panic Fades With oil prices already extending the drop from their highs as the trader “panic attack” identified by celebrated energy analyst Art Berman abates, and approaching a bear market from recent highs, a Friday morning report from Bloomberg will likely ensure that prices continue to […]
America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost
America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost In the first two essays in this sequence, I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by which great cultures rise, work through their possibilities, and fossilize once those possibilities have been pushed as far as they can go. That vision of history pretty reliably […]
US Blames Iran For Impoverishing Civilians While Prepping Further Sanctions
US Blames Iran For Impoverishing Civilians While Prepping Further Sanctions The United States government is preparing to implement an additional level of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to meet a dozen demands that are so absurdly unreasonable that they have been called a regime change policy in all but name. The sanctions which have […]
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’?
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’? “It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement – the INF Treaty, that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987”, writes Reagan’s former Assistant Treasury Secretary: “Behind the scenes, I had some role […]
China Boosts Antarctic Presence With Planned Permanent Airbase, Cites “Strategic Needs”
China Boosts Antarctic Presence With Planned Permanent Airbase, Cites “Strategic Needs” China is set to significantly expand its presence in Antarctica as it takes the crucial step of establishing its first permanent airport and large landing strip close to its small research outpost, Zhongshan station. After nearly a decade of planning construction of the airport is set […]
A new flashpoint in the Mediterranean deepens the conflict between Turkey, Cyprus and Greece
A new flashpoint in the Mediterranean deepens the conflict between Turkey, Cyprus and Greece The conflict over gas in the eastern Mediterranean is intensifying. In February, the first case of intervention by the Turkish navy took place in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Cyprus. Last month, two more flashpoints have appeared. The dispute concerns […]
India Calls Trump’s Bluff, Will Pay For Russian S-400s In Rubles
India Calls Trump’s Bluff, Will Pay For Russian S-400s In Rubles After facing down US threats of possible economic sanctions should it follow through with its plans to purchase nearly $5.4 billion in Russian S-400 anti-ballistic missile systems, India has successfully called the US’s bluff. After India stood its ground and insisted on moving ahead […]
Russia Eyeing Military Base In Cuba As US Prepares To Leave Nuclear Missile Deal
Russia Eyeing Military Base In Cuba As US Prepares To Leave Nuclear Missile Deal A senior Russian official proposed that his country is seriously considering establishing a military base in Cuba in response to Trump’s plan to quit the INF treaty, predicting that “a new Cuban crisis” could erupt if the US and Russia fail […]
