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The U.S. Energy Industry Can’t Afford A Trade War
The U.S. Energy Industry Can’t Afford A Trade War As the U.S.-China trade spat turns into a full-blown war with tariffs and retaliatory tariffs and threats of further tariffs, U.S. energy exports to China may suffer if Beijing follows through with its threat to slap tariffs on U.S. oil and oil product imports. China has, […]
NATO is a Con Game
NATO is a Con Game Marc Riboud Forbidden City under the snow, Beijing 1957 Okay, well, Trump did it again. Antagonizing allies. This time it was Germany that took the main hit, over the fact that it pays Russia billions of dollars for oil and gas while relying on the US for its defense … […]
“There Is No End In Sight” Army Major Warns Of “Perpetual War” On Terror
“There Is No End In Sight” Army Major Warns Of “Perpetual War” On Terror Cutting through the haze of humanitarian bullshit and liberation, West Point graduate and author Major Danny Sjursen told ‘Watching The Hawks’ that the War on Terror is a “battle for basic hegemony in the Middle East”, warning that it may go […]
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars Ignore the establishment: Trump has a huge opportunity at his upcoming summit. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit. Credit: Creative Commons/www.kremlin.ru. The upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is an overdue opportunity for the American president’s next bold peace […]
Don’t Like Antiwar Lefties Going On Fox Or RT? Blame CNN And MSNBC.
Don’t Like Antiwar Lefties Going On Fox Or RT? Blame CNN And MSNBC. As usual, Glenn Greenwald has been catching heat all over Centrist Twitter, this time for conducting a brief interview for Russian state media outlet RT after a panel appearance in Moscow. RT, in typical fashion, titled the interview “Greenwald: I came to Russia […]
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy Trump’s policies are shaping America’s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don’t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar. The urge within the commentariat to describe every president’s foreign policy in terms of some clearly defined doctrine is as strong as ever, but […]
Goldman: US-China Trade War Set To Worsen
Goldman: US-China Trade War Set To Worsen Echoing the comments laid out last night by Standard Chartered’s Steven Englander, this morning Goldman Sachs doubled down on how the US-China trade war will progress in the near-future, warning that it expects the tensions to get worse, at least initially. Speaking to Bloomberg TV, Goldman’s co-head of […]
“Past Point Of No Return”: World Markets Tumble Amid Global Trade War Shockwaves
“Past Point Of No Return”: World Markets Tumble Amid Global Trade War Shockwaves In almost every way, the overnight trading action has been a mirror image of the ramp observed on Monday morning, when trade tensions – inexplicably, one trading day after trade war started – were said to have “gone away” leading to a […]
A Storm Is Brewing For U.S. Oil Exports
A Storm Is Brewing For U.S. Oil Exports Two geopolitical developments in recent weeks—U.S. sanctions on Iran and the escalating U.S.-Chinese trade war—are set to reshuffle the U.S. oil flows to the world’s fastest-growing oil market, Asia. On the one hand, the United States is pressing Iran’s oil customers to cut their Iranian crude imports […]
TARIFF WARS AND THE FALLACY OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE
TARIFF WARS AND THE FALLACY OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE The world may be on the brink of a series of trade wars between the United States and both the European Union and China. All the parties say they don’t want this — though President has asserted that trade wars are not a problem and […]
Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning for The Economy
Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning for The Economy Years ago when analysts first started to use the term “globalist”, there was an immediate recognition among liberty advocates as to who they were referring to. This was back when the movement for small government, the non-aggression principle, and true free markets was […]
Why Trade War Is Now Set To Get Much Worse
Why Trade War Is Now Set To Get Much Worse In a note written on Monday, ahead of today’s latest escalation by the US which unveiled a list of $200BN in incremental tariffs sending risks assets sharply lower and yet which was perfectly expected and previewed both here and elsewhere as it was part of […]
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State “There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the […]
America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil
America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international […]
How Bad Is Iran’s Oil Situation?
How Bad Is Iran’s Oil Situation? The U.S. government has continued its attempts to shut down Iran’s oil exports, and in recent days Iranian officials responded by threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz. Such an outcome is highly unlikely, but the war of words demonstrates how quickly the confrontation is escalating. Oil prices spiked […]
