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USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China
USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China The almost 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been relegated to the dustbin of history. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed on a trilateral trade deal — the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — to replace it. As expected, the agreement finalized on Sept. 30 is intended to stimulate production […]
IRGC Commander Says Netanyahu Will “Flee Into Sea,” Should “Practice Swimming”
IRGC Commander Says Netanyahu Will “Flee Into Sea,” Should “Practice Swimming” In a fiery message aimed at Tel Aviv, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps deputy commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami issued a warning to Israel, Middle East-based source Al Masdar News reports. “I tell the prime minister of the Zionist regime to practice swimming in the Mediterranean because soon you will have no choice but [to] […]
Deadly Chinese Drones Now Lurk Above Mideast Battlefields
Deadly Chinese Drones Now Lurk Above Mideast Battlefields Across the Middle East, countries banned from purchasing armed drones from the US due to a weapons embargo are increasingly gravitating towards Chinese defense manufacturers, according to a new report from the Associated Press, sales that “are helping expand Chinese influence across a region vital to American […]
India Defies US, Signs $5.4BN Arms Deal With Russia Amid Promises Of Closer Ties
India Defies US, Signs $5.4BN Arms Deal With Russia Amid Promises Of Closer Ties In what amounts to Russia’s latest act of defiance against the US and its Western allies, and a sign that India is slowly moving away from the US sphere of influence, New Delhi has signed a $5.4 billion deal for the […]
Bioweapon? Scientists Sound Alarm Over DARPA Plans To Spread Viruses Using Insects
Bioweapon? Scientists Sound Alarm Over DARPA Plans To Spread Viruses Using Insects A team of scientist sounds the alarm in a new Science Policy Forum report about a mysterious US government program that is developing genetically modified viruses that would be dispersed into the environment using insects. The virus-infected or ‘Frankenstein’ insects are being developed as […]
Hot Economic Warfare: Scrambling for Rare-Earth Minerals
Hot Economic Warfare: Scrambling for Rare-Earth Minerals Just like the gold rushes of California between 1848 and 1855, Canada’s Klonike of 1896 to 1899, and Western Australia’s of the 1890s, the world is experiencing a frenzy to obtain mining rights in pursuit of today’s “gold,” namely rare earth minerals. Used for components of electric vehicle […]
Russian Military: US Killed Dozens By Bioweapon Disguised As Drug Research
Russian Military: US Killed Dozens By Bioweapon Disguised As Drug Research The Russian Defense Ministry is accusing the United States of killing dozens of Georgians with a biological weapon after disguising it as drug research. Documents recorded the deaths of 73 people over a short period of time, indicating a test of “a highly toxic chemical […]
NATO’s Manipulation Of The Macedonian Vote Exposes Its Modus Operandi
NATO’s Manipulation Of The Macedonian Vote Exposes Its Modus Operandi Nearly two-thirds of Macedonian voters boycotted the faux referendum for changing their country’s constitutional name and facilitating its entry into NATO, yet the vehemence with which the bloc is still trying to get them to join exposes its Hybrid War and anti-democratic modus operandi. NATO […]
Best Government Money Can Buy
Best Government Money Can Buy Very few Americans know who Sheldon Adelson is and fewer still appreciate that, as America’s leading political donor, when he speaks the Republican Party listens. By virtue of his largesse, he has been able to direct GOP policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel, which might well be regarded […]
Maybe a rethink from Brussels?
Maybe a rethink from Brussels? The entire fabric of the European Union is under threat while the hierarchy in Brussels sleepwalks into yet another crisis. The UK is highly likely to walk away from further Brexit negotiations, Italy which once survived on a diet of high interest rates and high inflation is threatening to blow […]
UN Court Orders United States to Lift Iran Sanctions Linked to Humanitarian Goods, Civil Aviation
UN Court Orders United States to Lift Iran Sanctions Linked to Humanitarian Goods, Civil Aviation October 03, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to […]
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy”
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy” Update: Highlights from Pence’s speech (via Bloomberg): *PENCE SAYS TRUMP HAS MADE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA `A PRIORITY’ *PENCE: CHINA USING WHOLE-OF-GOVT APPROACH TO INFLUENCE U.S. *PENCE: HOPE THAT FREEDOM IN CHINA WOULD EXPAND WENT UNFULFILLED *PENCE: CHINA USING STOLEN TECH TO TURN PLOWSHARES INTO […]
US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age
US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison is a highly placed diplomat. Her words, whatever they may be, are official, which includes the ultimatums and threats that have become the language increasingly used by US diplomats to implement the policy of forceful persuasion or […]
Is Saudi Arabia the Middle East’s Next Failed State?
Is Saudi Arabia the Middle East’s Next Failed State? Ibn Khaldun—the famous Tunisian historian, geographer and social theorist—believed that decadence leads to collapse for Muslim dynasties. Such a scenario may be playing out with the Saudis, reports Daniel Lazare. Reports are growing that Muhammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s hyperactive crown prince, is losing his grip. […]
America and Russia, Part One: Stirrings in the Borderlands
America and Russia, Part One: Stirrings in the Borderlands To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for anyone in American public life to stop and say aloud, “Hold it. What’s going to happen if we keep […]
