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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 […]
Here Are The Six Ways China Could Retaliate In Trade War With The U.S.
Here Are The Six Ways China Could Retaliate In Trade War With The U.S. It’s all about the trade war between the US and China this morning, and more specifically, how will Xi retaliate to Trump. For those who missed the overnight fireworks, late on Monday, President Trump asked the US Trade Representative to identify […]
India Joins the Tariff War: The Party is Just Starting!
India Joins the Tariff War: The Party is Just Starting! In response to Trump’s tariffs on steel, India will put tariffs on Harley motorcycles, lentils, and almonds. Following the well-established belief that “trade wars are easy to win”, India counters Trump tariffs, to hike duty on US bikes, almonds, apples. India has proposed to raise […]
Chrystia Freeland Fails to See the Emerging Multipolar World
Chrystia Freeland Fails to See the Emerging Multipolar World In a strange case of reversed roles Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, tried to convince US president Donald Trump to return to his lost path of globalization and international trade agreements in an impassionate speech she gave at the Foreign Policy Forum last June […]
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria A day after a mysterious airstrike close to the Iraq-Syria border reportedly killed over 30 Syrian government soldiers and Iraqi paramilitary forces backed by Iran, a US official has told CNN the attack was carried out by Israel and not by the US coalition. Syrian state […]
How the last superpower was unchained
How the last superpower was unchained Think of it as the all-American version of the human comedy: a great power that eternally knows what the world needs and offers copious advice with a tone deafness that would be humorous, if it weren’t so grim. If you look, you can find examples of this just about […]
“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 […]
