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Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal After nearly a decade of engineering work on the project, the Panama Canal’s expansion opened for business on June 26. At the center of that business, a DeSmog investigation has demonstrated, is a fast-track export lane for gas obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United […]
European Union’s Imperial Overreach
European Union’s Imperial Overreach Exclusive: The European Union’s haughty and hasty expansion into low-wage Eastern Europe may be its undoing, as the Brexit vote shows popular resistance to the westward migration of workers that followed, writes Jonathan Marshall. While few analysts are putting it this way, the European Union suffers from a self-inflicted crisis of overexpansion […]
Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions THE DECISION BY UK VOTERS to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that – for once – their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline. Media reaction to the Brexit vote falls […]
US imperialism the BREXIT culprit
US imperialism the BREXIT culprit How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote, TRNN, June 25, 2016. Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia GREGORY WILPERT, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m […]
BREXIT is Watershed for Europe
BREXIT is Watershed for Europe Merkel admitted that: “There’s no way around it: Today is a watershed for Europe and the European unity process.” Of course, people like Schulz are the entire problem. His arrogance ensures the demise of Europe. He had the audacity to to say that there is “no chain reaction” after BREXIT. Once a […]
Bravo Brexit!
Bravo Brexit! At long last the tyranny of the global financial elite has been slammed good and hard. You can count on them to attempt another central bank based shock and awe campaign to halt and reverse the current sell-off, but it won’t be credible, sustainable or maybe even possible. The central bankers and their compatriots at the […]
The consequences of leaving the party
The consequences of leaving the party The collective decision of the British electorate is to reject the recommendation of its government, excepting those of its few dissenting ministers, that Britain should remain in Europe. It is a signal failure of government policy. Above all, it is a failure that undermines the state’s control over ordinary […]
Scotland Threatens To Veto Brexit
Scotland Threatens To Veto Brexit Yesterday we warned that the biggest threat to the UK political process in the aftermath of the Friday referendum is neither an arguably fake petition to hold another referendum (it won’t happen), nor the so-called buyer’s remorse on the side of “Leave” voters, especially with ComRes confirming a negligible 1% of those voters were […]
George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible”
George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible” Just four days ago, the “big guns” when George Soros wrote a Guardian op-ed titled “The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer – be warned” in which he said that “as opinion polls on the referendum result fluctuate, I want to offer a clear set of […]
2008 All Over Again
2008 All Over Again Financial markets in the United States and worldwide face uncertainty and potential crisis after Britain voted to leave the European Union. (Sparkx 11) Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them […]
Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights
Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights Two days after the shocking Brexit result, the nightmares for the Remain camp – which refuses to accept a democratic reality – will not go away. As a result, it has gotten to the farcical point where disgruntled Remain voters have launched a petition […]
ANALYSIS: Brexit vote a sign U.K. ‘longing for a time and place that never was’
ANALYSIS: Brexit vote a sign U.K. ‘longing for a time and place that never was’ ‘Free movement of people is a major point of European integration,’ says political scientist European Union leaders said Friday that the U.K. should begin the process of leaving the EU as soon as possible. It’s expected that some countries will take […]
Germany Says “We Won’t Let Anyone Take Europe From Us”
Germany Says “We Won’t Let Anyone Take Europe From Us” Yesterday we said that in the historic fallout and unprecedented confusion over Brexit, so far only one sure winner has emerged – namely Russia, where Vladimir Putin is watching the slow-motion collapse of this latest artifical aggregation of Europen states (a quick search of failed […]
Brexit = Death of the Technocrats
Brexit = Death of the Technocrats | Posted Friday Jun 24, 2016 at 1:01 pm My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) … the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit […]
British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum
British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum IN THE FIRST HOURS after the British public voted to exit the European Union, amid all sorts of triumphal statements and recriminations, one declaration was notably absent: the formal notification to the EU that the United Kingdom intends to leave the organization, which is required to start the […]
