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Chinese Refiner Halts US Oil Purchases, May Use Iran Oil Instead
Chinese Refiner Halts US Oil Purchases, May Use Iran Oil Instead With the US and China contemplating their next moves in what is now officially a trade war, a parallel narrative is developing in the world of energy where Asian oil refiners are racing to secure crude supplies in anticipation of an escalating trade war […]
Experts Warn Of Chaos For The U.S. Economy As China Declares That “The Biggest Trade War In Economic History” Has Begun
Experts Warn Of Chaos For The U.S. Economy As China Declares That “The Biggest Trade War In Economic History” Has Begun Nothing is going to be the same after this. On Friday, the United States hit China with 34 billion dollars in tariffs, and China immediately responded with similar tariffs. If it stopped there, this […]
Gross Incompetence
Gross Incompetence Jean-Léon Gérôme Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind 1896 Here’s the lowdown: the EU’s single market mechanism dictates freedom of movement for labor, capital, services and goods. These are not divisible; you cannot have one without the other. Still, that’s precisely what Theresa May, again, is proposing. She basically wants […]
Saudi Arabia was supposed to pump almost 14 mb/d in 2018
Saudi Arabia was supposed to pump almost 14 mb/d in 2018 We have to dig a little bit into history to see the context of this remarkable tweet whereby we have to switch between events and later, delayed analysis with the benefit of hindsight. 10 years ago GW Bush visited Saudi Arabia: Fig 2: Sword […]
US, Iran Clash in Hormuz Strait: Not an Improbable Scenario
US, Iran Clash in Hormuz Strait: Not an Improbable Scenario The US remains adamant in its desire to cut Iran’s oil exports to zero, even if it hurts importing countries. America’s secondary sanctions on firms dealing with Iran would “snap back” on August 6 for trade in cars and metals and on November 4 for oil and […]
Were the Crusades just for Plunder & Money?
Were the Crusades just for Plunder & Money? QUESTION: Were the Crusades inspired by economics? You mentioned how Venice looted Constantinople. Thank you for making history interesting KR ANSWER: To understand the Crusades, we have to first look at what was the original justification. The Catholic Church encouraged pilgrimages from the 4th century, but they began […]
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis U.S. corporate media spent years dismissing the role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s 2014 coup but it is suddenly going through a conversion, as Daniel Lazare reports. Last month a freelance journalist named Joshua Cohen published an article in The Washington Post about the Ukraine’s growing neo-Nazi threat. Despite a gratuitous swipe at […]
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald’s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America’s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard “Regime Change” as the core tenant of foreign […]
Imperial Hubris Redefined
Imperial Hubris Redefined There have been two developments in the past month that illustrate clearly what is wrong with the White House’s perception of America’s place in the world. Going far beyond the oft-repeated nonsense that the United States is somehow the “leader of the free world,” the Trump Administration has taken several positions that […]
Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable”
Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable” A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China’s military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to “manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war” and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the Express. The leaked documents were published by […]
This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like
This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like I’ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren’t traditionally the sort of […]
Russia Joins Global Trade War – Imposes Tariffs On US Energy, Mining Imports
Russia Joins Global Trade War – Imposes Tariffs On US Energy, Mining Imports Whether this is a coordinated response is unclear – and certainly on a much smaller scale – but Bloomberg reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree this morning imposing higher tariffs on U.S. products in retaliation for U.S. duties on metals […]
King Trump Shouts at the Ocean: Stop the Waves
King Trump Shouts at the Ocean: Stop the Waves Trump believes all he has to do to make things happen is to issue an ultimatum. One Tweet will explain. ✔ The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help. If anything, they are driving prices higher as […]
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth Photo by Susan Ruggles | CC BY 2.0 The growing desperation of Israel to avoid public knowledge of its many war crimes and crimes against humanity knows no bounds. The country that, with United States support, proclaims itself the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, has, like […]
