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Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War
Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War In a new interview with host Jesse Ventura at RT, former United States presidential candidate and House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich stressed the importance of the American people challenging the “two-party duopoly that’s committed to war.” In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work […]
NATO “Concerned by Russia’s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders”
NATO “Concerned by Russia’s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders” The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia’s region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to […]
Russia And China Continue To Boost Oil Ties
Russia And China Continue To Boost Oil Ties Even before the OPEC/non-OPEC production cuts took effect in January 2017, Russia had already beaten Saudi Arabia to become China’s single largest oil supplier for 2016. Since then, Saudi Arabia has sacrificed still more of its market share in the prized Chinese market, while Russia has dominated […]
A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings
A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings Official Washington is so obsessed with the hyped Russia-gate allegations that it isn’t picking up on dire warnings from Russia that continued U.S. military interference in Syria won’t be tolerated, as Gilbert Doctorow notes. From time to time, the Kremlin uses the Sunday evening weekly news wrap-up program […]
Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence
Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence Spain’s D-Day is here: the country’s biggest political crisis since an attempted military coup in 1981 is about to get a resolution – one way or another – and as Bloomberg reports, Spanish police are ready to arrest Catalan President Carles Puigdemont “immediately” […]
US Sends Nuclear Submarine To Korean Peninsula For More Military Drills
US Sends Nuclear Submarine To Korean Peninsula For More Military Drills As US forces prepare to join their South Korean partners for yet another round of the military exercises that North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un is so fond of, the US has sent a nuclear-powered sub to participate. The nuclear-powered submarine Michigan will arrive […]
South Korea’s New “Blackout Bomb” Can Paralyze The North’s Power Grid
South Korea’s New “Blackout Bomb” Can Paralyze The North’s Power Grid US and South Korean officials are nervously watching to see if North Korea follows through with its threats to carry out another nuclear test – or to fire a rumored long-range missile capable of accurately striking the west coast of the US into the […]
The Geopolitical Consequences Of U.S. Oil Exports
The Geopolitical Consequences Of U.S. Oil Exports Two crucial things happened yesterday. The first you may have noticed – oil prices moved back up. As for the second, most so-called “experts” seemed to have missed. See, the environment we’re seeing in energy markets is very different from what we saw only a week ago, when […]
US Public Don’t Care if ‘News’media Lie
US Public Don’t Care if ‘News’media Lie To say that the US public don’t care if ‘news’media lie, is shocking, but I shall here present evidence that it actually is true — not in some mere theory, but in empirical fact. A typical example of Americans not caring about the truthfulness, nor even about the […]
Britain Draws Up A Plan For War With North Korea
Britain Draws Up A Plan For War With North Korea While the United States remains distracted and divided, Great Britain draws up plans for an upcoming war with North Korea. Tossing major issues aside, Americans have all but forgotten that the world stands on the precipice of World War 3. While the left is focusing […]
Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader
Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader In a quite shocking escalation of the rhetoric in Spain, a spokesman for the ruling People’s Party just issued a (barely) veiled death threat to the President of Catalonia. “Let’s hope that nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the person who makes the decalartion will end […]
America’s Long History of Warfare
America’s Long History of Warfare Americans like to view their country as a force for peace in the world when the historical reality is almost the opposite, a reality ignored by the PBS Vietnam War documentary, writes Lawrence Davidson. If you go to the Wikipedia page that gives a timeline of U.S. foreign military operations […]
Moscow Warns It May “Restrict” U.S. Media Operations In Russia
Moscow Warns It May “Restrict” U.S. Media Operations In Russia With relations between the US and Russia souring to the point where media outlets such as RT and Sputnik appear on the path to being effectively banned, the Russian foreign ministry said that it is within Russia’s rights to restrict the operations of U.S. media […]
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion Fred Lyon Barbary Coast 1950A friend sent me a post from the DiEM25 website last week, entitled Critique of DiEM25 policy on immigrants and refugees. DiEM25 is a pan-European political movement of which former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is a co-founder. I started writing some lines as a […]
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief!
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief! If a world conflagration, God forbid, should break out during the Trump Administration, its genesis will not be too hard to discover: the thin-skinned, immature, shallow, doofus which currently resides in the Oval Office! This past week, the Donald has continued his bellicose talk with both veiled and explicit threats against purported […]
