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Giuliani Vows Regime Change At “Iran Uprising” Event; MEK Supporters Chant John McCain’s Name
Giuliani Vows Regime Change At “Iran Uprising” Event; MEK Supporters Chant John McCain’s Name Speaking at an MEK-linked event called the “Iran Uprising Summit” in New York City on Saturday, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told an audience that the Iranian government is “going to be overthrown” as soon as revolutionary “conditions” are ripe. “I don’t know […]
Can US-China trade war rivalry reverse the worst economic trends in both countries?
Can US-China trade war rivalry reverse the worst economic trends in both countries? The door for compromise and restoring a functional relationship between the United States and China appears to have closed. The 10 per cent tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, rising to 25 per cent from January 1, is the final straw. […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls Attack On Parade A “US Plot”; Tehran Summons Western Ambassadors
Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls Attack On Parade A “US Plot”; Tehran Summons Western Ambassadors Iran’s top cleric and leader Ayatollah Khamenei has pointed the finger at the West for a terror attack on a military parade that took place early Saturday in the Southwest city of Ahvaz, which left 25 people dead and over 60 wounded. Khamenei’s condemnation […]
Pompeo Vows “Series Of Actions” Against Venezuela’s Maduro “In The Coming Days”
Pompeo Vows “Series Of Actions” Against Venezuela’s Maduro “In The Coming Days” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an incredible statement to Fox News on Friday, vowing to take “series of actions” in “the coming days” against Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela. The threat was couched in terms of being in the “best interest” of Venezuelans, […]
Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: Germany’s Merkel Demoted To Figurehead
Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: Germany’s Merkel Demoted To Figurehead You don’t see “Germany” and “ungovernable” in the same headline very often. But that might be about to change, as Chancellor Angela Merkel, for the past decade the central pillar of Europe’s Establishment, loses influence both at home and abroad. First came a wave of […]
China Summons US Ambassador Over Sanctions Scandal
China Summons US Ambassador Over Sanctions Scandal China’s foreign ministry summoned the US ambassador on Saturday to lodge an official protest over the sanctions imposed by the United States against a Chinese military organization for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles, state media reported. The announcement came just hours after a Chinese defense ministry spokesman […]
Has The Era Of Autonomous Warfare Finally Arrived?
Has The Era Of Autonomous Warfare Finally Arrived? The global arms race for the latest weapons of war is a naturally escalating cycle of countries pursuing ways to dominate the battlefield of the future. Increasingly, that battlefield is a matrix of soldiers with traditional weapons, robots, drones and cyberweapons. Until this point, command over this […]
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment American leaders, politicians, policymakers and pundits are fond of talking about the “Unipolar Moment” and “Hyper Power” position that they imagine the United States enjoys in the world. Totally lacking from this fantasy are any inconvenient historical facts. The US Unipolar Moment (insofar as it existed at […]
China Threatens US With “Consequences” If It Does Not “Immediately” Revoke Sanctions Over Russian Weapons Deal
China Threatens US With “Consequences” If It Does Not “Immediately” Revoke Sanctions Over Russian Weapons Deal Just hours after Beijing called off trade talks with the US in the biggest escalation of the trade feud between the two nations, the war of words between China and the US ratcheted up on Saturday, when Beijing lashed […]
US Nuclear Safety: A Critical Problem That Has Largely Been Kept Out of the Public Eye
US Nuclear Safety: A Critical Problem That Has Largely Been Kept Out of the Public Eye The issue of nuclear safety has been a hot topic in the second half of 2018. It has just been discussed in detail at the 62nd International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference in Geneva, which was held Sept. 17-21. The international […]
Iran Starts Air Force Drills Near The World’s Crucial Oil Chokepoint
Iran Starts Air Force Drills Near The World’s Crucial Oil Chokepoint Iran’s Air Force and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps began on Friday fighter jet drills over the waters near the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported on Friday. Aircraft including nine F-4, six Sukhoi, and four […]
Trump’s Hand-Picked Winners and Losers: China vs Canada, NAFTA Threats, and P&G
Trump’s Hand-Picked Winners and Losers: China vs Canada, NAFTA Threats, and P&G As a single country, China is the US’s largest trading partner but Canada is the largest export partner. As Trump struggles to get a NAFTA deal going on account of Canada, the above chart puts things into perspective. Canada is the US’s largest […]
A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As ‘Skirmish’ Escalates
A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As ‘Skirmish’ Escalates Following a surge in Chinese, European, and much of the US equity markets this week amid hopes that the so-called ‘trade skirmish’ was less ‘war-like’ than expected, China just dropped an early Saturday morning (local time) tape bomb that is sure to resurrect […]
“Trump Won’t Back Down”: Bannon Warns Trade-War Will Be “Unbearably Painful” For China
“Trump Won’t Back Down”: Bannon Warns Trade-War Will Be “Unbearably Painful” For China Steve Bannon – who claims to have helped President Trump draft the battle plan for the ongoing trade war, says that Trump’s strategy is to make the conflict “unprecedentedly large” and “unbearably painful” for Beijing, according to an exclusive interview with the South China Morning […]
