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The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis
The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis Before we begin with this week’s installment of This Week in Geopolitics, I want to draw your attention to the 2018 Strategic Investment Conference. Last year at the SIC, I said the United States would likely launch a pre-emptive attack on […]
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls Two weeks after a US B-52 strike killed scores of Russian mercenaries in Syria, which according to Bloomberg and Reuters were are as many as 200, while Russia said no more than 5 Russians were killed in the attack then […]
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack”
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack” Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet from President Trump clarifying his previous comments on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump I never said Russia did not meddle in […]
Turkey Threatens to Invade Greece
Turkey Threatens to Invade Greece Turkey’s ruling party, and even much of the opposition, seem intent on, if not obsessed with, invading and conquering these Greek islands, on the grounds that they are actually Turkish territory. “The things we have done so far [pale in comparison to the] even greater attempts and attacks [we are […]
The Three Global Super-Powers
The Three Global Super-Powers There are currently three global super-powers, three nations that lead the world: China, Russia, and US. After World War II, until recently, the US clearly dominated the world, not only culturally, with more influence over the world’s other cultures than any other single nation possessed, but also economically, with product-dominance throughout the world, […]
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony The irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in the precious bodily fluids of our hallowed democracy is so overwhelming […]
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics Dunder-Mifflin as Troll Farm The Mueller indictment made public on Friday charges 13 Russian nationals with trolling the American electoral process to ‘sow discord’ by falsely representing themselves as American dissident personas. Once the field of presidential aspirants had been narrowed in 2016, their goal became to support Donald Trump’s […]
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’ There’s no defense like a good offense. For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to […]
Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria
Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria America’s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is understandable, because US efforts are in blatant violation of international law, which bars UN member states from supporting military action to overthrow other […]
Hezbollah Leader Threatens “We Will Open Fire” On Disputed Israeli Offshore Oil & Gas Operations
Hezbollah Leader Threatens “We Will Open Fire” On Disputed Israeli Offshore Oil & Gas Operations During a televised address in Beirut on Friday Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah once again warned Israel to back off its claims over disputed oil and gas field just off the southern Lebanese coast, threatening that Hezbollah could “disable [Israel’s […]
The US is Executing a Global War Plan
The US is Executing a Global War Plan Washington is moving inevitably on a global war plan. That’s the grim conclusion one has to draw from three unfolding war scenarios. Ultimately, it’s about American imperialism trying to assert hegemony over the international order for the benefit of US capitalism. Russia and China are prime targets […]
War Spending Will Bankrupt America
War Spending Will Bankrupt America “Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — […]
Escalation in Syria – How Far Can the Russians be Pushed?
Escalation in Syria – How Far Can the Russians be Pushed? Events in Syria have recently clearly taken a turn for the worse and there is an increasing amount of evidence that the Russian task force in Syria is being targeted by a systematic campaign of “harassing attacks”. First, there was the (relatively successful) drone […]
Why Are We In Afghanistan?
Why Are We In Afghanistan? It is long past time for someone in the shithole known as Washington to tell us why Americans have been killing and dying in Afghanistan for 17 years. Is it to steal the country’s minerals? Is it to control the location of pipelines? Is it to keep American taxpayers money […]
Exacerbation of Tensions in Syria: Who Stands to Gain?
Exacerbation of Tensions in Syria: Who Stands to Gain? French President Emmanuel Macron has said he would order airstrikes against Syria if the rumors that its government has used chemical weapons (CW) against civilians are confirmed. Never backed up with any solid evidence, such reports crop up from time to time in the Western media. In some […]
