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Behind Korea, Iran & Russia Tensions: The Lurking Financial War
Behind Korea, Iran & Russia Tensions: The Lurking Financial War What have the tensions between the US and North Korea, Iran and Russia in common? Answer: It is that they are components to a wider financial war. Russia and Iran (together with China) happen to be the three key players shaping a huge (almost half the […]
Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism?
Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism? As 2017 draws to a close, it is difficult to be optimistic about what will be coming in the new year. The American President, whose margin of victory was certainly based on his pledge to avoid unnecessary wars, has doubled down on Afghanistan, refuses to leave Syria […]
How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018?
How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018? The New Year is one full of economic, political, and war threats. Among the economic threats are stock, bond, and real estate markets artificially pumped up by years of central bank money creation and by false reports of full employment. It is an open question whether […]
US State Department Hints At Iran Overthrow: Are We Witnessing The Early Stages Of Regime Change?
US State Department Hints At Iran Overthrow: Are We Witnessing The Early Stages Of Regime Change? The US State Department has issued a formal condemnation of the Iranian government following two days of economic protests centering in a handful of cities, calling the regime “a rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos” […]
2018 – war or no war?
2018 – war or no war? If the first months of 2017 were a time of great hopes following the historical defeat of Hillary Clinton, the year is ending in a sombre, almost menacing manner. Not only has the swamp easily, quickly and totally drowned Trump, but the AngloZionist Empire is reeling from its humiliating […]
All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War
All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War This is a classic example of flip-flop policy. In November, the US promised Turkey to stop arming Kurdish militias in Syria after the Islamic State was routed. Brett McGurk, the US Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, explained that […]
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization Common wisdom tells us that without a clear leader and monopoly on force, chaos reigns until a new order is established. My political theory is rooted in a single axiom that I came to independently: governments are mafia. I actually came to this conclusion in the reverse […]
The World’s Real Nuclear Menace Isn’t North Korea
The World’s Real Nuclear Menace Isn’t North Korea Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0 With growing speculation of war with North Korea and familiar apocalyptic rhetoric in recent times, the United States and North Korea have participated in increasingly bellicose exchanges. These recent exchanges range from President Trump calling on other nations to […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits
Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits Four months ago, in a not entirely surprising move meant to circumvent US economic sanctions on Venezuela, president Nicolas Maduro announced that his nation would stop accepting dollars as payment for oil imports, followed just days later by the announcement that in […]
Russia Establishes Two Permanent Bases In Syria To Host Nuclear Warships And Warplanes
Russia Establishes Two Permanent Bases In Syria To Host Nuclear Warships And Warplanes Russia’s defense ministry has announced it is now in the process of establishing two permanent military bases in war-torn Syria after President Putin authorized prior deals with the Syrian government to move forward. Though Russia maintains merely up to ten military bases on foreign soil, […]
Systems That Suck Less
Systems That Suck Less Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now of course this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of the disagreement took the shape of strident claims that I’d used the wrong definition of socialism. That’s actually worth addressing here, because it […]
Intelligence Insider Warns Of Imminent War: “Likely In The Next 12 Weeks… The Director Of The CIA Told Me”
Intelligence Insider Warns Of Imminent War: “Likely In The Next 12 Weeks… The Director Of The CIA Told Me” Having worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies over the last two decades, James Rickards was once asked to simulate asymmetric economic attacks on the U.S. financial system. He is an expert at escalation scenarios and end […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle
Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle On America’s ‘long emergency’ of recession, globalization, and identity politics. Credit: alisafarov/Shutterstock Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble with our republic. — Tom McGuane Can a people recover from an excursion into unreality? The USA’s sojourn into an alternative universe of […]
