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How A Central Bank Caused One of History’s Biggest Cons
How A Central Bank Caused One of History’s Biggest Cons In the summer of 1821, a roguish Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor arrived by boat in London, and initiated arguably the most audacious confidence scam in history. MacGregor had spent much of the previous decade fighting as a soldier of fortune in the Venezuelan War of […]
EXPOSED: Secret History of Russia and Wall St.
EXPOSED: Secret History of Russia and Wall St. As we have often explained in our book Splitting Pennies, the world is not as it seems. Politics often polarizes a country it seems every election there becomes ‘two’ Americas but the current polarization seems to be that of ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ whereas on one side, there are […]
Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion
Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion As the Snowden documents and David Sanger’s great new book and other books make plain, and as U.S. officials are wont to brag, the U.S. intelligence services break into computers and computer networks abroad at an astounding rate, certainly on a greater scale than any other intelligence service […]
Two Keywords for US Imperialism: ‘Justification’ and ‘Plausibility’
Two Keywords for US Imperialism: ‘Justification’ and ‘Plausibility’ Observing the behavior of the United States over recent decades, it becomes clear that the American establishment has always relied on two fundamental factors to justify choices in foreign policy. We have been accustomed in recent years to humanitarian interventions being justified on the assumption that the […]
Special Ops: 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go?
Special Ops: 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go? Give them credit. As TomDispatch’s Nick Turse has so vividly reported over the last decade, America’s previously “elite” Special Operations forces — once small, specially trained units in a large military — have now essentially become a military in their own right, all 70,000 of them (larger, […]
Psychoanalysing NATO: Gaslighting
Psychoanalysing NATO: Gaslighting NOTE: Because “NATO” these days is little more than a box of spare parts out of which Washington assembles “coalitions of the willing”, it’s easier for me to write “NATO” than “Washington plus/minus these or those minions”. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has called on Russia to explain “exactly what has gone on” after […]
Putin Confronts The American Dystopia
Putin Confronts The American Dystopia We have to hand it to Putin. He is the best that there is. Note the ease with which he mopped up the floor with that idiot Chris Wallace. https://www.rt.com/usa/433447-putin-interview-fox-wallace/ What is wrong with the US media that it cannot produce a second competent journalist as company for Tucker Carlson? […]
Oil Underground in Neuquén, Argentina – and a New US Military Base There
Oil Underground in Neuquén, Argentina – and a New US Military Base There Obsessive media focus on President Trump’s personal indecencies undoubtedly contributes to important news stories not seeing the light of day. In that regard it’s no wonder the U.S. public is generally unaware of U.S. military interventions in parts of the world, particularly […]
Greenwald vs. Cirincione: Should Trump Have Canceled Summit After U.S. Indictment of Russian Agents?
Greenwald vs. Cirincione: Should Trump Have Canceled Summit After U.S. Indictment of Russian Agents? This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our debate between Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, […]
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria byMike Mish Shedlock 5 hrs–edited The mass hysteria following Trump’s meeting with Putin is likely to last for days. Most are outraged. Few see the light. My article Congratulations to President Trump for an Excellent Summit with Putin spawned numerous some I could not tell if they were sarcastic or not. For example, […]
Peace Talk Between Nuclear Superpowers Offends America’s Assholes And Morons
Peace Talk Between Nuclear Superpowers Offends America’s Assholes And Morons When I was a little girl I used to end all my nightly prayers with the words, “And please no nuclear war, and peace on earth. Amen.” This was in the early eighties. The knowledge that weapons existed armed and ready which could annihilate all life […]
Trump On Path for War With Iran in the “National Interest”
Trump On Path for War With Iran in the “National Interest” Trump’s Iran policy not only has US allies hopping mad, it also has us on a path towards another major Mideast war. “We will seek to provide unprecedented financial pressure on the Iranian regime,” the U.S. said, rebuffing Britain, France, and Germany which requested […]
World Trade War Has Begun
World Trade War Has Begun “By imposing tariffs of 25% on hundreds of products imported from China worth US$34 billion a year on Friday, July 6, the United States has violated the rules of the World Trade Organization and launched the largest trade war in the world’s economic history,” a statement by China’s Commerce Ministry declarae. […]
It’s Coming… Resource Nationalism
It’s Coming… Resource Nationalism Early 2012 Argentina’s oil industry was controlled by Repsol, the Spanish energy giant, through YPF, its local subsidiary. By the end of the year, this was no longer the case. By then President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner’s leftist government had nationalised the oil sector, stealing YPF with the stroke of a pen. […]
