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Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will
Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will As the Trump administration announces 25% tariffs on over $50bn of Chinese goods, and Europe and China prepare retaliation measures, The Economist concludes that “Rising tariffs are the worst of many threats to the world economy”, because, among other things, “Tariffs temporarily push up inflation, […]
The Beginning of the End of the Bilderberg Era
The Beginning of the End of the Bilderberg Era The beginning of the end of the Bilderberg/Soros vision is in sight. The Old Order will cling on, even to the last of its fingernails. The Bilderberg vision is the notion of multi-cultural, international cosmopolitanism that surpasses old-time nationalism; heralding the end of frontiers; and leading toward a US-led, ‘technocratic’, […]
Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse”
Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse” As European officials struggle to do everything they can to save the WTO, which appears headed for an all-but-certain demise thanks to President Trump’s aggressive trade policies, EU leaders have apparently circulated an “internal memo” drafted by the European Commission that accuses the US of deliberately instigating the […]
The Biggest Monetary Experiments in History: Part 1
The Biggest Monetary Experiments in History: Part 1 … and all at the same time. Last week was a humdinger. Three things happened: One Firstly, our pasta-eating friends, after having experienced firsthand a blizzard of accelerating violent crime… and watching their previously gentrified neighbourhoods reconfigured into ghettos resembling the Maghreb, decided enough was enough and said […]
A world for the many, not the few
A world for the many, not the few “The very notion of ‘charity’ erases a global history of slavery and oppression”. Asad Rehman applauds Labour’s ambition to overhaul neo-colonial development policy Illustration by Andrzej Krauze In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women, ‘It is […]
Is “America First” Hurting Global Energy Relations?
Is “America First” Hurting Global Energy Relations? Throughout history the strong bond between the United States and Europe, arguably the world’s most important alliance, has been decisive within the international arena. Massive migration from the ‘old world’ to the ‘new’ during the past centuries has been the reason for sharing important norms and values such […]
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War President Trump dramatically resumed a trade war footing this week with Beijing, threatening to impose tariffs on virtually all imported Chinese goods to the US. After earlier negotiations this month appeared to avert a clash, the Trump administration is back to full trade war mode. With fiery language, […]
A Storm Is Brewing In The Southern Gas Corridor
A Storm Is Brewing In The Southern Gas Corridor No fewer than Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci attended a gathering in Central Turkey on 12 June. The amount and variety of attendees of this meeting reveal a […]
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis The current US President, Donald Trump, claimed on June 18th, that Germany’s leadership, and the leadership in other EU nations, caused the refugee-crisis that Europe is facing: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in […]
Anyone Promoting Regime Change In Iran Is An Evil Piece Of Shit
Anyone Promoting Regime Change In Iran Is An Evil Piece Of Shit I have been saying all year that the 8chan phenomenon known as “QAnon” is bogus, and as time has gone on the evidence has become overwhelming that it is an establishment psyop designed to herd the populist right into accepting the narratives and agendas of […]
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed The world transformed and nobody in the West noticed. India and Pakistan have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The 17 year-old body since its founding on June 15, 2001 has quietly established itself as the main alliance and grouping of nations across Eurasia. Now it has […]
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The brothers’ plutocratic view of business-as-government even has a name: Pompeo. As in Mike Pompeo, the Trump regime’s latest secretary […]
OPEC “Deal” Ends With Output Confusion, Sets Stage For “Deal Unraveling”
OPEC “Deal” Ends With Output Confusion, Sets Stage For “Deal Unraveling” Just 24 hours after OPEC appeared on the edge of splintering, Iran seemed to cave and in a deal that was described as a victory for everyone, OPEC member states and Russia provided a vague assurance they would boost output by striving to return […]
Jordan Sends Tanks To Border Amidst Syrian Army Advance
Jordan Sends Tanks To Border Amidst Syrian Army Advance Images surfaced overnight Thursday of a large Jordanian military convoy reportedly headed to the border near the Syrian province of Daraa, including M-60 battle tanks and heavy military equipment. This as German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman on Thursday, telling him, “You […]
