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“Can’t Work With That Woman Anymore”: Merkel Handed A Two-Week Ultimatum On Her “D-Day”
“Can’t Work With That Woman Anymore”: Merkel Handed A Two-Week Ultimatum On Her “D-Day” Adding insult to injury, one day after Germany’s historic loss to Mexico (which resulted in a man-made earthquake in USA’s southern neighbor), Europe’s most important country is facing the “Destiny Day” to a political crisis like no other in its recent […]
Western Media Whitewash Yemen Genocide
Western Media Whitewash Yemen Genocide With the United Nations warning that millions of civilians could die from violence or starvation from the ongoing military siege of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, there is no other way to describe what is happening except as “genocide”. The more than three-year war on Yemen waged by a […]
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds The US Treasury Department report for April published on June 15 revealed that Russia sold $47.4 billion out of the $96.1 it had held in Treasury bonds (T-bonds). In March, Moscow cut its Treasury holdings by $1.6 billion. In February, Russia reduced its bond portfolio by $9.3 billion. Other holders […]
The Saudi-UAE Alliance is the Most Dangerous Force in the Middle East Today
The Saudi-UAE Alliance is the Most Dangerous Force in the Middle East Today The latest: they are bombing a port that accounts for 80 percent of the food and aid trickling into starving Yemen. Prince Salman meets with officials at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD/Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz) For three years, […]
China Responds To US Sabre-Rattling With Anti-Aircraft “Drill” Over South China Sea
China Responds To US Sabre-Rattling With Anti-Aircraft “Drill” Over South China Sea The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has carried out an alarming anti-aircraft drill with missiles fired at dummy drones over the South China Sea to simulate an aerial attack, after Washington challenged Beijing by flying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers near its highly disputed militarized […]
Mattis: Putin Is Trying To “Undermine America’s Moral Authority”
Mattis: Putin Is Trying To “Undermine America’s Moral Authority” At a graduation ceremony for the US Naval War College (barf), US Secretary of Defense James Mattis asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine America’s moral authority,” and that “his actions are designed […]
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise The Norwegian government intends to add another 400 U.S. Marines to Norway before the most significant military exercise since the Cold War this fall, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. Currently, about 330 Marines from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines (1/6), an […]
US Acts As World’s Cop Making Others Comply with Its National Laws
US Acts As World’s Cop Making Others Comply with Its National Laws An anti-doping bill was introduced to Congress on June 12 to make the use or distributing drugs during international sports events a punishable crime. The act offers fines of up to $250,000 for individuals and prison sentences of up to 10 years for those who make, distribute or […]
Yellow Journalism and the New Cold War
Yellow Journalism and the New Cold War Like Saddam Hussein a decade and a half ago, Russia and its President Vladimir Putin have been repeatedly vilified in the Western media over the last five years, helping to mobilize popular support for the reemergence of a new Cold War. Best-selling author Dan Talbot has called it […]
Why Merkel’s coalition could be about to collapse
Why Merkel’s coalition could be about to collapse Photo: DPA A fight between Angela Merkel and and her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is threatening to collapse the German government less than three months after it was formed. Not for the first time, the two can’t agree on how to treat asylum seekers at the border. […]
What Else Canadians Should Be Sorry For — Besides Burning the White House
What Else Canadians Should Be Sorry For — Besides Burning the White House Six-years after the British landing at Jamestown, with the settlers struggling to survive and hardly managing to get their own local genocide underway, these new Virginians hired mercenaries to attack Acadia and (fail to) drive the French out of what they considered […]
Pundits Worry Threat of Nuclear War Is Being Reduced
Pundits Worry Threat of Nuclear War Is Being Reduced Media outlets don’t want America to negotiate with North Korea; they want the US to hold North Korea for ransom. MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow (6/12/18) appears dismayed by the manifestation of a US president meeting with an Official Enemy. On MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, the host was […]
The Russians are Coming!
The Russians are Coming! Photo by Tom Hilton | CC BY 2.0 These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean […]
The Day the US Became an Empire
The Day the US Became an Empire For half a century, the United Kingdom celebrated May 24, the birthday of the late Queen Victoria, as “Empire Day.” The US ought to have its own Empire Day and it should be on June 15. It was on June 15, 1898 that the US became an empire. […]
