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CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’
CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’ During the Women’s March on the Pentagon, Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for president, told Consortium News Video that war is robbing us blind. 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to Consortium News Video during the […]
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0 Only recently a spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada made headlines as a result of the Saudi Government’s beheading of a Myanmar guest worker. After the public barbaric and gruesome decapitation, the corpse […]
China’s Oil Addiction Is Its Main Weakness As A Superpower
China’s Oil Addiction Is Its Main Weakness As A Superpower For decades, the U.S. was so reliant on foreign crude oil imports that it dictated much of the country’s foreign policy spanning numerous presidential administrations. As far back as the 1970s, especially after the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo that threatened economic survival, foreign policy decisions […]
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait Just after U.S. warships again made a provocative passage through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, further making already strained tensions between the Washington and Beijing — currently in the midst of a trade war — even hotter, Steve LeVine at Axios poses the question long on the […]
Israel’s Defense Chief Says “No Choice But War” As Forces Build Along Gaza Border
Israel’s Defense Chief Says “No Choice But War” As Forces Build Along Gaza Border We reported over the weekend that Israel has mustered its largest build-up of tanks and armored personnel carriers since 2014 at a deployment area along the border with Gaza and that “all-out war” looks inevitable after weeks of heightened tensions with Hamas. […]
UK Readies Apocalyptic Flotilla Of Emergency Supplies In Case Of “No-Deal” Brexit
UK Readies Apocalyptic Flotilla Of Emergency Supplies In Case Of “No-Deal” Brexit UK authorities are drawing up plans to charter a flotilla of supply ships to ferry in emergency food and medicines in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit next March, according to FT, which reports that the move was “greeted with disbelief at a stormy […]
US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific
US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific One of the motives behind the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty is its desire to acquire first-strike capability against Russia from Europe, while keeping intact its strategic nuclear arsenal. Another motivation is the need to keep China, America’s fiercest geopolitical challenger, in its crosshairs by forcing it […]
The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror
The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror Photo Source POMED | CC BY 2.0 So, does an accidental killing lead to dismemberment of the body and hiding of all the evidence and waiting days before admitting to the killing? If the United States accepts this version of events for the killing of Jamal […]
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall Photo Source The White House | CC BY 2.0 The Middle East has a century old tradition of being the political graveyard of American and British political leaders. The list of casualties is long: Lloyd George, Anthony Eden, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair and George W Bush. All […]
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot… We posted the following in July after President Trump threw Montenegro under the bus. Taiwan may be about to get hot, hot, hot in the next year after last night’s Commander in Chief’s ambiguous message on defense treaties. – GMM One of GMM‘s most excellent followers, who we very much […]
By Going Nuclear the EU Has Already Lost Its Battle with Italy
By Going Nuclear the EU Has Already Lost Its Battle with Italy “Here’s where we hold ’em by the nose, and kick ’em in the ass” — Patton If you ever want to know who’s losing an argument simply look at who’s doing the most threatening. Not who’s shouting the loudest or who’s the angriest, […]
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making 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. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified by the US Senate […]
Putin: In a Nuclear Holocaust “We Will Be Martyrs, They Will Drop Dead”
Putin: In a Nuclear Holocaust “We Will Be Martyrs, They Will Drop Dead” Ever since the Euromaidan color revolution in Ukraine, the threat of a thermonuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States has been steadily growing. With the United States and NATO forces having pushed their proxy fighters literally to the border with Russia, the world’s […]
U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents
U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents Unbelievably – Rothkopf has the audacity to criticize Trump for having “repeatedly shown great fondness for foreign leaders—even despots and known murderers, human rights abusers and criminals”, while Rothkopf himself is literally a paid agent working to disseminating propaganda for one of […]
Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Could Drive Congress to Finally End Support For Brutal Saudi War in Yemen
Photo: Kevin Dietsch, Pool/Getty Images JAMAL KHASHOGGI’S MURDER COULD DRIVE CONGRESS TO FINALLY END SUPPORT FOR BRUTAL SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN THE SUSPECTED MURDER of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.S. government toward a major internal confrontation over its role in the war in Yemen, one that could have […]
