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The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran
The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran Against all common sense, moral considerations and international law, U.S. President Donald Trump tonight decided to place the United States outside the international so-called community and isolate itself, not Iran. He withdrew the United States from what is one of the most important negotiated peace-oriented agreements that have […]
Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State
Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State Let me cut to the chase. Every single world leader knows Trump’s full of shit. Even more importantly, the citizens of their nations also know it. Everyone with a functioning brain understands that pulling out of the Iran deal has nothing […]
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway Photo source StateofIsrael | CC BY 2.0 by Addy Cameron-Huff | CC BY 2.0 Iran has an exaggerated reputation in the Middle East for Machiavellian cunning and an ability to outmanoeuvre its enemies. Britain used to be regarded in the […]
NATO: a Promoter of Colonialism in the 21stCentury
NATO: a Promoter of Colonialism in the 21stCentury Five NATO members continue to possess colonies. These NATO states have no intention of granting their territories independence any time soon. Not only does France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United States insist on maintaining vestiges of their colonial pasts, but their colonies have […]
Why Russian Gas Is Critical For The UK
Why Russian Gas Is Critical For The UK Although some companies have learned to ride the waves of geopolitics quite efficiently, still in most cases political tensions only complicate the dealings of energy companies. The Skripal poisoning case has driven a massive political wedge between the United Kingdom and Russia (nations whose relations are historically […]
As US Military Effectiveness and Diplomatic Efforts Fade into Irrelevance Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington
As US Military Effectiveness and Diplomatic Efforts Fade into Irrelevance Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world. In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in Syria; meetings between Modi and Xi […]
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is the moment when it positively embraces the role of serving as a mouthpiece for the government. […]
WTI Tops $70 For First Time Since Nov 2014 As Iran Deal Deadline Looms
WTI Tops $70 For First Time Since Nov 2014 As Iran Deal Deadline Looms With the Iran Deal looking increasingly fragile, front-month WTI futures have just traded above $70 for the first time since Nov 2014. $70 just happens to be the 50% retracement from the Aug 2013 highs to the Feb 2016 lows… As […]
Green Berets Are Now On The Ground Assisting The Saudi War On Yemen In “A Marked Escalation”
Green Berets Are Now On The Ground Assisting The Saudi War On Yemen In “A Marked Escalation” Once again a creeping, years’ long shadow war is expanding from indirect proxy intervention to direct engagement, complete with US “boots on the ground” where no American ground forces were previously thought to exist. And it’s not Syria, […]
Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good
Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good I sometimes try to get establishment loyalists to explain to me exactly why we’re all meant to be terrified of this “Russian propaganda” thing they keep carrying on about. What is the threat, specifically? That it makes the public less willing to go […]
Theresa May’s Lies Must Stop
Theresa May’s Lies Must Stop It would seem that the so-called British prime minister Theresa May, leader of the Conservative Party [who heads up a minority Tory Government only kept in power through a confidence and supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party] has forgotten that there is such a matter as reality backed up […]
What May 2018 Has in Store: It’s Difficult to Understate the Looming Dangers
What May 2018 Has in Store: It’s Difficult to Understate the Looming Dangers The month of May is always associated with V-E Day. The sentiments of “never again” were strong 73 years ago, in 1945 when the UN was founded. Since then Europe has put a huge amount of effort into creating a unique security […]
Oil Production Vital Statistics April 2018
Oil Production Vital Statistics April 2018 On the World stage, momentous events are unfolding. The USA, UK and France have bombed Syria risking confrontation with Russia. The Israelis are more than a little concerned about Iranian involvement in Syria. And on the Korean peninsula, peace between N and S is on the cards spreading prosperity […]
Eight Geopolitical Risks That Could Send Oil Prices Surging
Eight Geopolitical Risks That Could Send Oil Prices Surging The geopolitical risk premium has taken center stage as one of the key drivers of oil prices in recent months, often trumping fundamentals to send prices soaring on concerns about where the next sudden oil supply disruption would come from. In recent weeks, a perfect storm […]
The Interminable Advance of World War 3
The Interminable Advance of World War 3 The current war-shrieking is irrevocably lashed to the over-extendedness of the West’s aggregate balance sheet. Somewhere in the basement of the NY Fed the Mother of All Spreadsheet’s (MOAS) burgeoning cells are starting to acquaint, of necessity, with scientific notation. A key leverage point has been reached if […]
