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Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon? The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary. It is not only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who rely on the war propaganda machine that poses […]
US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Nuclear Bomb
US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Nuclear Bomb With the world still abuzz over the first ever deployment of the GBU-43/B “Mother Of All Bombs” in Afghanistan, where it reportedly killed some 36 ISIS fighters, in a less noticed statement the US National Nuclear Security Administration quietly announced overnight the first successful field test […]
What Could Go Wrong?
What Could Go Wrong? “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn’t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking. One thing that used to occupy the center […]
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency”
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency” Judging by the precautionary actions of North Korea’s neighbors, the next 48 hours on the Korean peninsula could see substantial volatility, because at the same time as China’s largest carrier was said to suspend flights to Pyongyang, the Japanese government has asked the U.S. to provide advance consultation if […]
Air China Suspends Flights To North Korea As Kim Vows “Merciless Response To Any US Provocation”
Air China Suspends Flights To North Korea As Kim Vows “Merciless Response To Any US Provocation” In the latest escalation over what may be an imminent preemptive airstrike on North Korea by US warships now located just 300 miles away from the North Korean nuclear test site, moments ago China’s national airline, Air China, announced […]
Australia Beckons a War With China
Australia Beckons a War With China Photo by Marko Mikkonen | CC BY 2.0 Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower. The United States is at […]
To Russia with More Russia-Bashing
To Russia with More Russia-Bashing Now that President Trump is bashing Russia, not resetting relations, the mainstream U.S. media has gone from pushing “Russia-gate” conspiracies to decrying doubts about U.S. government anti-Russia claims, notes Nat Parry. After several months of pushing the “Russia-gate” conspiracy theory – a wild-eyed, all-encompassing but somewhat nebulous narrative involving U.S. […]
China Warns North Korea War “Could Break Out At Any Moment”
China Warns North Korea War “Could Break Out At Any Moment” “North Korea is a problem,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. “The problem will be taken care of.” Which prompted North Korea’s rebuke of US President Trump’s “aggressive words,” overnight. Both China (“The situation now is similar to the time before […]
US May Launch Preemptive Strike On North Korea Ahead Of Nuclear Test
US May Launch Preemptive Strike On North Korea Ahead Of Nuclear Test With just two days to go until North Korea’s “Day of the Sun” celebrations, when as reported yesterday it may conduct its 6th nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, NBC reports citing multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials that in the latest […]
America, the Waning Days
America, the Waning Days Frederick Carl Frieseke Girl In Blue Arranging Flowers 1915Potential earthquakes and black swans are right ahead of us. What else is new? On April 16, Turkey has a referendum to decide whether Erdogan will become de facto supreme ruler. What happens if he loses the referendum is completely unclear, undiscussed even, […]
If You’re Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton
If You’re Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton (ANTIMEDIA) If you read closely between the warped headlines of the establishment media, you will eventually find the truth about Trump’s decision to strike the Syrian government: it was illegal. Yet most mainstream media outlets clearly supported the strike. Many U.S. allies […]
The Real Dangers Behind The Syrian Crisis Are Economic
The Real Dangers Behind The Syrian Crisis Are Economic Back in 2010/2011 when I was still writing under the pen-name Giordano Bruno, I warned extensively about the dangers of any destabilization in the nation of Syria, long before the real troubles began. In an article titled Migration Of The Black Swans, I pointed out that […]
Trump Plunges Toward World War III
Trump Plunges Toward World War III Months of Democratic Russia-bashing and Trump-baiting achieved their predictable result as the thin-skinned and rash President is now proving his “toughness” by firing off missiles and risking World War III, warns Norman Solomon. Vast efforts to portray Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin’s flunky have given Trump huge incentives to […]
Trump Abandons His Base, Goes toward Nuclear War
Trump Abandons His Base, Goes toward Nuclear War The 48,000+ reader-comments thus far at Stephen Bannon’s Breitbart News, to their announcement on April 6th that Trump had invaded Russia’s ally Syria with missiles, are overwhelmingly along the lines of “This isn’t what I voted for.” The tweet by the convert to Orthodox Judaism, Ivanka Trump, […]
