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Anatomy of a Displacement-Projection Syndrome
Anatomy of a Displacement-Projection Syndrome “For more than a decade, Russia has meddled in elections around the world, supported brutal dictators and invaded sovereign nations — all to the detriment of United States interests.” — The New York Times The Resistance sure got a case of the vapors this week over Mr. Trump’s failure to […]
The Saudi and American Way
The Saudi and American Way The U.S.-Saudi-UAE “Operation Restoring Hope” has become their plan to bomb the food-supply route that the residents in the Shiite Houthi area of Yemen rely upon in order to receive food, and thereby for the U.S.-Saudi-UAE alliance to win their war against the Houthis — who are Shiites — and to take full […]
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth FROM THE ARCHIVES: In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don’t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on Oct. 28, 2017. As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and […]
Trump Threatens to Place Tariffs on All $500B China Imports, Blasts Fed Again
Trump Threatens to Place Tariffs on All $500B China Imports, Blasts Fed Again Trump blasted the Fed, the EU, China today with threats to put tariffs on everything. China and the EU are manipulators. ✔ ….The United States should not be penalized because we are doing so well. Tightening now hurts all that we […]
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia As the media fulminates, they fail to see how Trump has kept the usual machinery running. Katz/Shutterstock President Donald Trump has strengthened, not weakened, American military and economic opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That fact has been mostly unreported and it is […]
When the US Invaded Russia
When the US Invaded Russia Amidst the backdrop of increased U.S.-Russian tensions and even talk of war, long forgotten is the time the U.S. actually invaded, explains Jeff Klein. Amid the bi-partisan mania over the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, fevered, anti-Russian rhetoric in the United States makes conceivable what until recently seemed inconcievable: that dangerous […]
Trump Tariffs Could Delay Permian Relief
Trump Tariffs Could Delay Permian Relief The oil and gas industry hoped they would be spared from Donald Trump’s trade war, but the Permian basin was just hit with some bad news. The Permian basin has run up against a bottleneck for pipeline capacity. Gushing oil from West Texas will surpass the available space on […]
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick Photo by Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 I had just turned 15 when the Cuban Missile Crisis suddenly erupted. Like everyone else my age I had been propagandized from early childhood to see the Reds as America’s mortal enemy and to fear their designs to wipe us off […]
China “Weaponizes Yuan” – Weakens Fix By Most Since 2016
China “Weaponizes Yuan” – Weakens Fix By Most Since 2016 On the heels of its ‘stealthy’ easing.. and not so stealthy: In the past 48 hours China has: – Cut its 7-day Treasury rate by 103bps – Launched quasi QE – told banks to flood the system with liquidity – Sent the Yuan tumbling – Warned […]
War Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore
War Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore It’s become obsolete, the days of conquest are behind us, yet the military-industrial complex grinds on all the same. Credit: Getmilitaryphotos/Shutterstock America spends more on its military than all its enemies put together yet it still can’t win wars. Failed adventures in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have drained America’s power […]
US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments
US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments Geoffrey R. Pyatt (L) and Samantha Power on Maidan square, in Kiev on June 10, 2015 © YURY KIRNICHNY / AFP On the world’s Grand Chessboard, the US is fighting for control and influence. And there are countries where its ambassadors are […]
Trump’s Trade War May Spark a Chinese Debt Crisis
Trump’s Trade War May Spark a Chinese Debt Crisis (Bloomberg Opinion) — There’s no chance China will cut its trade surplus with the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. For starters, Washington has made no specific demand to which Beijing can respond. But its efforts may have an unexpected side effect: a debt crisis […]
Trade War With China Morphs Into Currency War: Biggest Loser is the EU
Trade War With China Morphs Into Currency War: Biggest Loser is the EU Those who think “trade wars are good and easy to win” need to stop and reflect on currency wars. Trade Wars Easy to Win ✔ When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it […]
The Intelligence Community Is Neither
The Intelligence Community Is Neither At the big “Treason Summit” “Russopocalypse” “Catastrovent” on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the “Land of Press Freedom,” Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask a perfectly respectable […]
Russia, Insanity and the Treason that Wasn’t
Russia, Insanity and the Treason that Wasn’t It’s become clear to me U.S. politics is reaching a breaking point. The level of hysteria over Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin is wholly disproportionate to what actually occurred. Putin declared the Cold War over. Pat Buchanan agrees and so do I. For as much grief as I […]
