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Russia And China Prepare To Ditch Dollar In Bilateral Trade
Russia And China Prepare To Ditch Dollar In Bilateral Trade In a time when many nations have gone public with their intention to ditch the dollar in part or in whole, in bilateral trade with non-US counterparts, either to prevent the US from having “veto power” of commerce courtesy of SWIFT or simply in response […]
U.S-Saudi Clash Could Spell Disaster For OPEC
U.S-Saudi Clash Could Spell Disaster For OPEC The Khashoggi case is far from over, as current harsh statements coming from Washington are showing. Not only is there a long line of U.S. Senators calling for an in-depth investigation of the matter, some have even openly called for the removal of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin. […]
America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress
America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can be used not only to make sense of the past, but also to get some idea of the shape […]
AUDIO: Shady Claims by NYT on Russia-gate: Peter B. Collins interviews Gareth Porter
AUDIO: Shady Claims by NYT on Russia-gate: Peter B. Collins interviews Gareth Porter Gareth Porter discusses with radio host Peter B. Collins his Consortium News article exposing exaggerated claims of Russian skulduggery on Facebook in 2016. Journalist and historian Gareth Porter returned to the Peter B. Collins show to discuss his new article, exposing exaggerated claims of […]
Germany Clashes With The U.S. Over Energy Geopolitics
Germany Clashes With The U.S. Over Energy Geopolitics The United States and the European Union (EU) are at odds over more than just the Iran nuclear deal – tensions surrounding energy policy have also become a flashpoint for the two global powerhouses. In energy policy, the U.S. has been opposing the Gazprom-led and highly controversial […]
Jamal Khashoggi: Where The Road to Damascus & The Path to 9/11 Converge
Jamal Khashoggi: Where The Road to Damascus & The Path to 9/11 Converge By Kristen Breitweiser, one of the four 9/11 widows – known as the “Jersey Girls” – instrumental in forcing the government to form the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 2001 attacks. Follow Kristen Breitweiser on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kdbreitweiser. Road to Damascus Conversion: Derived […]
Middle East Braces For Apocalyptic Conflict Between Israel And Hamas As Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman Declares “War Is Inevitable”
Middle East Braces For Apocalyptic Conflict Between Israel And Hamas As Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman Declares “War Is Inevitable” It appears that a major war between Israel and Hamas is imminent. For the past six months, Hamas has been staging violent protests along the Israeli border in an attempt to end the Israeli-Egyptian blockade. Those […]
Chill!
Chill! René Magritte Pandora’s box 1951 They can’t help themselves even as they hurt themselves. Look guys, chill! I saw someone imply on Twitter that Donald Trump is an accomplice in a murder cover-up. This person knows as well as all the ones who liked the tweet that they all just don’t know. They don’t […]
Does Saudi Arabia Own Donald Trump?
DOES SAUDI ARABIA OWN DONALD TRUMP? ON TUESDAY MORNING, President Donald Trump tweeted: “For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!” ✔ For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi […]
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess Saudi Arabia has not only called the end of Russia’s prominence as a global oil behemoth, but anticipates that Russia’s oil exports “will have declined heavily if not disappeared” within the next 19 years, Mohammed bin Salman said in a recent interview with Bloomberg. When asked […]
The Implications Of A Fractured U.S., Saudi Alliance
The Implications Of A Fractured U.S., Saudi Alliance After the resurgence of the U.S. oil industry in recent years due to hydraulic fracking and the shale oil revolution, most thought the days of Middle Eastern oil producers, Saudi Arabia in particular, being able to threaten use of the so-called oil weapon as geopolitical leverage or […]
Syria’s Chessboard
Syria’s Chessboard Photo Source Freedom House | CC BY 2.0 The Syrian civil war has always been devilishly complex, with multiple actors following different scripts, but in the past few months it appeared to be winding down. The Damascus government now controls 60 percent of the country and the major population centers, the Islamic State […]
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade Venezuela has just taken the next step in its quest to “free” itself from the tyranny of US dollar hegemony. One year after the country said it would stop accepting US dollars as payment for its (ever shrinking) oil exports (saying the country’s state-run oil […]
