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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 […]
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 […]
