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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 […]
JPMorgan Downgrades China Stocks, Forecasting “Full-Blown Trade War”
JPMorgan Downgrades China Stocks, Forecasting “Full-Blown Trade War” Late last week, JPMorgan’s strategist John Normand announced that the largest US bank “adopted a new baseline that assumes a US-China endgame involving 25% US tariffs on all Chinese goods in 2019” because “the US and China will not resolve their differences this year and that the […]
After Embarrassing Defeat, NATO, EU and the West Try to Alter Reality in Macedonia
After Embarrassing Defeat, NATO, EU and the West Try to Alter Reality in Macedonia Although the September 30, 2018 name-change referendum in Macedonia, which was supposed to set that ex-Yugoslav federal republic on a path to (certain) NATO and (blithely promised but much less certain) EU membership, failed miserably, with only 36.91% of the voters turning […]
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist It has been roughly two months since China threatened to impose a 25% tariff on US energy imports (it eventually went back on those threats), and less than two weeks since the latest round of tariffs has been implemented. But even as China […]
US Sanctions Against Russia Are “A Colossal Strategic Mistake”, Putin Warns
US Sanctions Against Russia Are “A Colossal Strategic Mistake”, Putin Warns As Russia is preparing plans to wean its banking system off the dollar, advancing a trend of de-dollarization among the US’s largest economic and geopolitical rivals, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of making a “colossal” but “typical” mistake by exploiting the dominance of […]
Wikileaks: To Weaken Iran, US Undermined Democratic Elements of Syrian Opposition to Empower Radical Groups
Wikileaks: To Weaken Iran, US Undermined Democratic Elements of Syrian Opposition to Empower Radical Groups While seven years have come and gone since the leaked document was written by USMC intelligence, little has changed when it comes to the U.S.’ long-standing goals in Syria and its callous disregard for the will of the Syrian people […]
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices Just hours after President Trump implicitly threatened Saudi Arabia with a withdrawal of military protection (a threat that was possibly inspired by OPEC+ ignoring Trump’s demands to raise production at its Algiers meeting last month) Russian President Vladimir Putin said out loud what many oil traders […]
Ockham’s Razor as a Guide to Slicing Nonsense Away
Ockham’s Razor as a Guide to Slicing Nonsense Away Why “razor”? Because it cuts away the unnecessary and redundant. Several Latin versions but this is the one I remember: noli multiplicare entia praeter necessitatem. Literally: “do not multiply essences without necessity” which is Medieval for “don’t make your theory any more complicated than it has to […]
