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Tensions Between US/NATO & Russia Are Flaring Dangerously
Tensions Between US/NATO & Russia Are Flaring Dangerously A cornered bear will ultimately use its claws As if there weren’t enough crises to worry about in the world already, from shooting rampages to accelerating species loss, the US and NATO continue to ‘poke the bear’ and risk an outbreak of war with Russia. I wish […]
Global Energy Advisory June 17th 2016
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 11 Entrenched as each side is in what seems an endless and ever-disheartening conflict between conservatives and progressives, finding seams to broaden discussions is no easy task. Cocooned as each partisan is in the selective comfort of peer perspectives and beliefs, suspicion and ridicule are the […]
DANGER: Obama Ignores Russia’s Valid National Security Worries
DANGER: Obama Ignores Russia’s Valid National Security Worries When the democratically elected President of Ukraine was violently overthrown in February 2014 and replaced by a rabidly anti-Russian regime, not only the residents in the areas of Ukraine that had voted heavily for him (Crimea having voted 75% for him, and Donbass having voted 90% for him) were terrified […]
Rio Declares State Of “Public Calamity”, Warns Of Total Collapse In Security, Health And Transport
Rio Declares State Of “Public Calamity”, Warns Of Total Collapse In Security, Health And Transport Earlier today, the IAAF announced that Russian track and field athletes would be banned from the Rio Oympics due to allegations of systematic doping. Rune Andersen, who heads the IAAF task force overseeing Russia’s attempts to reform, said that a “deep-seated culture […]
Turns out, OPEC Isn’t Dead Yet
Turns out, OPEC Isn’t Dead Yet In War for Market Share with US shale oil. Mayhem has crisscrossed the global oil markets since 2014: Huge losses for Big Oil, including teetering, over-indebted, state-owned giants like Mexico’s Pemex and Brazil’s Petrobras; bankruptcies among some of the smaller players; cuts in production in the US, Canada, and China where production […]
“The Specter of a Break-up Is Haunting Europe”
“The Specter of a Break-up Is Haunting Europe” Internal Strife and Divisions Blossom in Euro Land. Since the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis began, in 2010, Europe’s leaders have faced a Herculean task: keeping the rickety European edifice intact. Now, five years later, there are much more ominous signs of wear and tear. Everyone is focused on the dire threat […]
America Excels in Business of Death
America Excels in Business of Death America may lag behind the developed world in many categories, but it is No. 1 in the “merchant of death” business, experiencing a boom in the commerce of boom, especially in areas destabilized by U.S. invasions, notes JP Sottile. Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the […]
Brazil’s media ‘incited protests,’ favored Rousseff’s impeachment from start – Greenwald
Brazil’s media ‘incited protests,’ favored Rousseff’s impeachment from start – Greenwald Glenn Greenwald © Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Brazil-based US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, said Brazilian media is owned by a few families that have a clear political interest in pushing President Rousseff out by “inciting street […]
America’s Greatest Threat Is Its Crazed “Leadership” And Its Brainwashed Population
America’s Greatest Threat Is Its Crazed “Leadership” And Its Brainwashed Population Insouciant Americans do not even know what they should be worried about. A Russian Warning By Dmitry Orlov, The Saker, Victor Katsap and Evgenia Gurevich June 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “ClubOrlov” – We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the […]
Faith in Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling
Faith in Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of globalization? ‘Bad deal’: French trade minister Matthias Fekl said his country is likely to drop TTIP talks after leaks that US wants lower labour and environmental standards. At the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the […]
Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Silencing America as It Prepares for War Orlok | Shutterstock.com Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in […]
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight Exclusive: President Obama embraced Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, but his policies, such as heightening tensions with Russia, have raised the potential for a far worse nuclear catastrophe, explains Jonathan Marshall. Even if you’ve never won an office raffle, a sports pool or a lottery, consider yourself supremely lucky. Unlike […]
Against Cultural Senility
Against Cultural Senility For the connoisseur of sociopolitical absurdity, the last few weeks’ worth of news cycles very nearly defines the phrase “target-rich environment.” I note, for example, that arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan—the founder of the Project for a New American Century and principal architect of this nation’s idiotically bloodthirsty Middle East policies, a man who […]
How Russia is preparing for WWIII
How Russia is preparing for WWIII I have recently posted a piece in which I tried to debunk a few popular myths about modern warfare. Judging by many comments which I received in response to this post, I have to say that the myths in question are still alive and well and that I clearly failed […]
