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Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan
Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan In a few days, U.S. President Trump may try to re-impose sanctions on Iran, a dramatic step that could heighten tensions between the two countries. Some analysts believe the move could contribute to a much broader global economic power shift from the U.S. to China. The connection between the […]
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 “In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.” —Chris Jami As the world hurtles ever closer to war in Asia, there is an Alice-in-Wonderland media narrative […]
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 I want to say – and this is very important – in the end, we lucked out! It was luck that prevented nuclear war. Khrushchev was rational. Kennedy was rational. Castro was rational. [Holding up his thumb and […]
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea With North and South Korea set to meet tomorrow amid a hopeful climate of de-escalation and renewed diplomatic relations, the US government has decided to remind Kim Jong-Un that he may well be a dead man walking. Confirming what the Telegraph reported on December 20, […]
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Lies We Tell Ourselves Pixabay Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. […]
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon […]
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom QUESTION: Hi Martin. In your recent blog posts, you talk about the possible timing of the break up of Britain but you talk about that in terms of the regionalisation or break up of England only. Have you not said before that Scotland is likely to become […]
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1 “Once you understand what people want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can find the same desires in your own heart” – concluded Andrew Wiggins in the novel Speaker for the Dead. When Americans […]
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests Friday’s UN Security Council meeting didn’t disappoint in terms of the anticipated level of inflammatory rhetoric and accusations. Also not unexpected is that the US finds itself isolated after a week of the Trump White House going on the offensive: first by essentially calling […]
‘Preparing for the Unthinkable’: CDC to Hold Briefing on How to Prepare the Public for a Nuclear Detonation in America
‘PREPARING FOR THE UNTHINKABLE’: CDC TO HOLD BRIEFING ON HOW TO PREPARE THE PUBLIC FOR A NUCLEAR DETONATION IN AMERICA Amid rising tensions between the United States and North Korea, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention have scheduled a briefing for later this month that will teach healthcare professionals how to better prepare the […]
China’s Xi Warns Military: Be Ready For War & “Don’t Fear Death”
China’s Xi Warns Military: Be Ready For War & “Don’t Fear Death” In what is being characterized as a rare address to the world’s largest fighting force, President Xi Jinping on January 04 urged the Chinese military to be ready for war and ‘don’t fear death’. As the beat of the war drums gets louder in East Asia and […]
Iran in 2018
Iran in 2018 In 1953 Washington and Britain overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a dictator to rule Iran for the benefit of Washington and the British. In declassified documents, the CIA has admitted its role in overthrowing the Iranian government. The overthrow pattern is always the same. Washington hires protesters, […]
Switzerland too Falls Out of Love with the EU
Switzerland too Falls Out of Love with the EU Did someone say “referendum?” The EU’s relations with key third-party country Switzerland have sunk to their lowest point in years thanks to a last-minute decision by the European Commission to grant Swiss stock exchanges just one year’s further access to the single market. Switzerland is not […]
Russia Slams US “Attempts To Interfere” In Iran After Macron Warns Of “Conflict Of Extreme Brutality”
Russia Slams US “Attempts To Interfere” In Iran After Macron Warns Of “Conflict Of Extreme Brutality” Russia has joined China in calling for a policy of non-interference in Iran’s domestic affairs after a week of unrest has gripped multiple major cities and towns across the country in what started as protests over economic grievances, but […]
Iranian Protests – Target of Opportunity or Necessity?
Iranian Protests – Target of Opportunity or Necessity? From the moment reports of protests in Iran surfaced I was skeptical of the narrative. It only makes sense to be. So many things are coming together in the first half of 2018 that the timing of these protests warrants scrutiny. The earliest reports were of legitimate and […]
