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This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase
Trans Mountain and Puget Sound pipelines. Graphic: Carol Linnitt / The Narwhal This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase The vast majority of oilsands crude moving to the West Coast passes through the little regarded Puget Sound Pipeline, which is now heavily entangled in troubled Canada-U.S. relations Politicians and industry have […]
How America’s Wars Have Created Piles of Debt (And Little Strategic Benefit)
How America’s Wars Have Created Piles of Debt (And Little Strategic Benefit) America risks the return of the very fiscal and foreign policy perils that Walter Lippmann warned about almost a century ago. When Defense Secretary James N. Mattis spoke at the 2018 Center for the National Interest Distinguished Service Award dinner in late July, […]
Italy Threatens To Stop EU Funding Unless Other States Accept Refugees
Italy Threatens To Stop EU Funding Unless Other States Accept Refugees Europe’s refugee mess is back with a bang. On Thursday, out of the blue, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio threatened to stop financial contributions to the European Union next year unless other states agreed to take in migrants being held on a […]
Iran Again Threatens Strike On US, Israel After Bolton Warns “Maximum Pressure” Coming
Iran Again Threatens Strike On US, Israel After Bolton Warns “Maximum Pressure” Coming In what now seems like a weekly occurrence, Iran on Wednesday warned its military wouldn’t hesitate to strike American and Israeli targets should it be attacked by the United States after previous words from the US national security advisor warning that “maximum pressure” […]
Fixers
Fixers Gustave Caillebotte Young man by his window 1875 If there’s one thing that is exposed in the sorry not-so-fairy tale of former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, it’s that Washington is a city run by fixers. Who often make substantial amounts of money. Many though by no means all, start out as […]
Russia Plans To Beat US Sanctions By Stockpiling Gold
Russia Plans To Beat US Sanctions By Stockpiling Gold The Russian government is not taking the United States’ sanctions lightly. Instead, they plan to beat all sanctions imposed by Washington, including any future sanctions, by stockpiling gold. The Russian central bank’s First Deputy Governor Dmitry Tulin said that Moscow sees the acquisition of gold as a “100-percent […]
Trade War Escalates As US, China Slap Each Other With Fresh $16 BN In Tariffs
Trade War Escalates As US, China Slap Each Other With Fresh $16 BN In Tariffs Just after midnight on Thursday EDT, the United States and China escalated their acrimonious trade war implementing punitive 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other’s goods, even as mid-level officials from both sides resumed talks in Washington. China’s […]
Russia and Iran Hate Us for Our Freedoms
Russia and Iran Hate Us for Our Freedoms It’s easy to detect fake news. I don’t need a fact checker or a laboratory at a globalist think tank to clue me in. Here’s the latest fake news. Both Russia and Iran want to influence the midterm elections. It’s lunacy to believe this would make a difference, […]
Is Germany Moving SWIFT-ly To CIPS?
Is Germany Moving SWIFT-ly To CIPS? We have detailed how Russia and China have developed independent global payment systems that run parallel to the dollar based SWIFT system. We recently discussed how sanctions against Russia were actually “crushing the American empire“. The dollar based system is now obsolete and the entire world is questioning why […]
In The New “Multipolar World” The Globalists Still Control All The Players
In The New “Multipolar World” The Globalists Still Control All The Players The greatest tool at the disposal of globalists is the use of false paradigms to manipulate public perception and thus public action. The masses are led to believe that at the highest levels of geopolitical and financial power there is such a thing […]
Energy Is A Breaking Point In NAFTA Deal
Energy Is A Breaking Point In NAFTA Deal Oil and gas is proving to be a sticking point in the NAFTA renegotiations, with the incoming Mexican president hoping to exclude the chapter on energy from the trade deal. To be sure there have been a series of issues that have divided the three countries. Many […]
The Weaponization of the Dollar
The Weaponization of the Dollar The Uncivil Civil War discussed the sanguine approach many investors take towards equity risk despite clear signs of domestic political turbulence. The article put the upcoming elections and the growing political divisions amongst the populace into context with market risks. While we read plenty of politically related articles and many […]
Swiss Bank Freezes $5 Billion In Russian Money
Swiss Bank Freezes $5 Billion In Russian Money For years, Russian oligarchs and robber barons seeking to park their “unsourced” capital offshore and away from the sticky fingers of the Kremlin, treated Swiss bank accounts (preferably anonymous) with their “no questions asked” customer policies as, well, Swiss bank accounts. No more. One of Switzerland’s largest […]
The Suicidal Empire
The Suicidal Empire There are a lot of behaviors being exhibited by those in positions of power in the US that seem disparate and odd. We watch Trump who is imposing sanctions on country after country, dreaming of eradicating his country’s structural trade deficit with the rest of the world. We watch pretty much all […]
This Vital Oil And Gas Choke Point Could Be At Risk
This Vital Oil And Gas Choke Point Could Be At Risk Beijing is taking to task a Pentagon report, ”Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2018” released last Thursday on China’s military activities. The annual report issued by the Pentagon and presented to Congress, highlights growing Chinese naval capability, all the […]
