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War Deaths, and Taxes
War Deaths, and Taxes Are the federal taxes coming out of your wages and due this week killing you? Sadly whatâs rhetorical for US tax payers is gravely literal for people of eight countries currently on the shooting end of the US budget. This year at least 47% of federal income taxes goes to the […]
All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsudâs Links To UK Intelligence
All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsudâs Links To UK Intelligence Over the last few months, Professor Joseph Mifsud has become a feather in the cap for those pushing the Trump-Russia narrative. He is characterized as a âRussianâ intelligence asset in mainstream press, despite his declarations to the contrary. However, […]
Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing
Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing As Uber-Hawk John Bolton prepares to take over as national security adviser on Monday, Ray McGovern looks back at when Bolton was one of the âcraziesâ in the George W. Bush administration. John Boltonâs March 22 appointment-by-tweet as President Donald Trumpâs national security adviser has given âMarch Madnessâ […]
China Declares Trade War Victory: Gloats At US “Suffering” After “Crushing Counterattack”
China Declares Trade War Victory: Gloats At US “Suffering” After “Crushing Counterattack” Barely a day after China dropped the hammer on US stock markets by unveiling retaliatory tariffs on $50 billion in US imports that – unlike US measures that mostly targeted obscure industrial products – actually struck at key industries like soybean farmers, automobiles […]
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet Update: It appears that either the British government can’t keep its lies and proof-less accusations straight or something far more nefarious is at play. Following headlines (below) that British government scientists admitted they couldnât tell where the poison – identified by the UK […]
Mass Deception and the Prelude to World War
Mass Deception and the Prelude to World War In Libya, NATO bombed a path to Tripoli to help its proxy forces on the ground oust Gaddafi. Tens of thousands lost their lives and that countryâs social fabric and infrastructure now lies in ruins. Gaddafi was murdered and his plans to assert African independence and undermine […]
The Coming Crisis with Iran
The Coming Crisis with Iran Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 With the appointments of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state and John Bolton as national security adviser, Donald Trump has signaled his preparedness by the May 12deadline to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and ramp up pressure on North Korea if it […]
All-Out Trade War: China Strikes Back With 25% Tariffs On $50BN Of US Imports
All-Out Trade War: China Strikes Back With 25% Tariffs On $50BN Of US Imports Beijing wasted no time in striking back at Washingtonâs latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports by announcing a new list of US products that would be subject to punitive action, as the worldâs two largest economies edge ever closer towards […]
China Vows Retaliation With “Same Scale, Intensity” To Any New US Tariffs
China Vows Retaliation With “Same Scale, Intensity” To Any New US Tariffs Trumpâs aggressive trade war overtures and China’s initial retaliatory moves have spooked Wall Street over the past week and again on Monday, which helped drive down the Dow Jones by 459 points, with the Nasdaq Composite quickly approaching correction territory. And as the mass […]
A Dangerous Crossroads: Whatâs in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?
A Dangerous Crossroads: Whatâs in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West? No, itâs not a return to George Kennan and his containment policy. It looks more like a slow strangulation, with mounting pressure everywhere. The furor over the Skripal poisoning case is being raised at a time when moves by the West are […]
Dollar Hegemony â Real or Sophistry?
Dollar Hegemony â Real or Sophistry? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I really wish I found you sooner. A friend of mine has been telling me to listen. He bought the Dow at 17,000 and sold it 26,000 on your advice. He paid off his house and has told me â see, I told you so. I […]
U.S. and Russia Making Preparations for World War III
U.S. and Russia Making Preparations for World War III The anti-neoconservative Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who had been the chief aide to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and had opposed Americaâs invading Iraq, spoke on March 2nd explaining how the U.S. and Russia are drifting ever-more-rapidly into World War III. He said itâs essentially the […]
Syriasly
Syriasly âPeace with Honorâ was President Nixonâs anodyne phrase for futzing around as long as possible in Vietnam to conceal the reality that the US military was getting its ass kicked by what we had initially thought was a 98-pound weakling of a Third World country. That was a half-century ago and I remember it […]
Russia âNovichokâ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Havenât Learned the Lessons of Iraq
Russia âNovichokâ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Havenât Learned the Lessons of Iraq The current state of anti-Russia hysteria is reminiscent of earlier dark chapters of American history, including the rush to war in Iraq of the early 2000s and McCarthyism of the 1950s, Patrick Henningsen observes. If thereâs one thing to be gleaned from […]
âUncontroversialâ Mass Destruction
âUncontroversialâ Mass Destruction âThere are two sets of scenarios in which a US president might order a nuclear strike. The first is relatively straightforward and uncontroversial: launching a retaliatory attack after or during an enemy nuclear attack.â Richard Betts and Matthew Waxman, who wrote this sentence in Foreign Policy magazine, ignore military, scientific and humanitarian […]
