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Will Tribalism Trump Democracy?
Will Tribalism Trump Democracy? On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation’s Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift. Allan Brownfeld of the […]
A Deeper Exploration of the Supremacist Origin of Our Common Culture
A Deeper Exploration of the Supremacist Origin of Our Common Culture The AP headlined on July 27th “#MeToo reaches Vatican as nuns denounce abuse from priests” and reported that the Vatican has continued to tolerate rape by its priests, and: Revelations that a prominent US cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse […]
Italy – the Coming Revolution & Euro Crisis for 2021?
Italy – the Coming Revolution & Euro Crisis for 2021? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you obviously have a database on Italy that is without comparison. Nobody else even had a chart on the Italian lira you recently published on the blog. I know you are well aware of the revolutions in Italy and the history. I […]
Whose Trade War Is It Anyway?
Whose Trade War Is It Anyway? Everybody complains about Trump, but he wasn’t the one who started it German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to President Donald Trump in front of other world leaders in Charlevoix, Canada, at the G-7 summit on June 9, 2018. The mainstream media and world leaders are blaming Trump for starting […]
Western Collapse… Scapegoating Trump & Putin
Western Collapse… Scapegoating Trump & Putin Former US President Barack Obama was in South Africa last week for the centennial anniversary marking the birth of the late Nelson Mandela. Obama delivered a speech warning about encroaching authoritarianism among nations and the “rise of strongman politics”. Coming on the heels of the summit in Helsinki between […]
Robert Fisk: “I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers”
Robert Fisk: “I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers” Finally, a journalist for a mainstream UK media outlet is methodically tracking weapons shipment serial numbers and English-language paperwork recovered from al-Qaeda groups in Syria, and he’s literally showing up at arms factories and questioning arms dealers, including officials at the Saudi […]
The Madness Gripping Washington
The Madness Gripping Washington The United States and Israel have been threatening Iran for something like twenty years, using the pretext that it was developing a nuclear weapon initially, but also more recently declaring that Tehran has become a threat to the entire Middle East. Both contentions are essentially lies, concocted by an Israel and […]
How to navigate the white water of these turbulent times
How to navigate the white water of these turbulent times The latest lurch in global statecraft — Trump’s dissing NATO allies then playing footsie with Vladimir Putin — leaves many scrambling to maintain some balance. Republicans for whom the enemy status of Russia is an article of faith are beside themselves. Democrats are running out […]
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk The global oil market is once again in flux as geopolitics and regional conflicts take an increasingly heavy toll on oil supplies. Since the OPEC meeting in Vienna, warning signs that oil markets are heading for a shortage in supply, due to low spare production capacity and growing […]
The 4 Key Chokepoints For Oil
The 4 Key Chokepoints For Oil While everyone has been watching the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tension between the U.S. and Iran, a chokepoint on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula is now at the center of the action. Saudi Arabia temporarily halted all oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb strait after Saudi […]
The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power
The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but those dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they act their […]
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new […]
The Most Important Waterway In The Oil World
The Most Important Waterway In The Oil World Tensions between the United States and Iran continue to rise, with U.S. President Donald S. Trump issuing a threatening tweet against Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani amidst preparations to re-impose sanctions on Iran’s economy following the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. The increasingly tense situation has […]
Are Oil Markets Underestimating Iran’s Threats?
Are Oil Markets Underestimating Iran’s Threats? Iranian officials have suggested that they could shut the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. moved to completely disrupt Iranian oil exports, a dire scenario that would present a supply shock to the oil market. The prospect of an outage at the Strait of Hormuz repeatedly crops up when […]
