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When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
When Worse is the Enemy of Bad Photo source davitydave | CC BY 2.0 There comes a time in the decline of an empire when–in its hubris, its arrogance–it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance of stupidity. To paraphrase Walter Cronkite–we are there. Trump makes his one positive, […]
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be short-lived, but the impact on Yemen’s three-year-old forgotten war is likely to put the devastating conflict on the front burner. The […]
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’?
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’? “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce,” a saying attributed to Karl Marx, comes to mind in this time of Trump. To those of us raised in the Truman era, when the Red Army was imposing its bloody Bolshevik rule on half of Europe, and NATO was […]
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame The summer of 2018 will go into history as the moment when a US president fundamentally and decisively changed the international world order which its predecessors worked hard on during the past decades. Within approximately a week from 11 July until 16 July, President Donald Trump achieved to insult its […]
America’s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace
America’s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace It is significant that Presidents Putin and Trump have both spoken out against “haters” among America’s political establishment who would rather see conflict between Russia and the United States instead of a normalization of bilateral relations. Following their landmark, successful summit this week in Helsinki, Putin and […]
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 […]
