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NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia
NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia On May 18th, Britain’s Guardian headlined “West and Russia on course for war, says ex-Nato deputy commander” and reported that the former deputy commander of NATO, the former British general Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff (who was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 2011-2014), expressed outrage that Britain isn’t urgently preparing for war against Russia, and […]
Chinese Fighter Jets Fly Within 50 Feet Of US Spy Plane Near China
Chinese Fighter Jets Fly Within 50 Feet Of US Spy Plane Near China Having relentless provoked Russia over the past month, when week after week the Pentagon expressed its shock and dismay that Russians dare to scramble fighter jets when US missile cruisers or reconnaissance planes fly next to, or above, Russian territory the US […]
The Mystery Of Saudi Treasury Holdings Solved: US Reveals Saudi Holdings For The First Time
The Mystery Of Saudi Treasury Holdings Solved: US Reveals Saudi Holdings For The First Time In the aftermath of Saudi Arabia’s explicit threat to sell off US Treasurys (of which according to the NYT it had some $750 billion) should the US pursue legislation that could hold it liable for the September 11 bombings, Wall Street’s analysts quickly tried […]
Russia’s Diversity of Opinion
Russia’s Diversity of Opinion The usual U.S. depiction of Russian media is that all you get is Kremlin propaganda, but prime-time talk shows actually offer wider diversity of opinion and more substantive debates than what appears on American TV, says Gilbert Doctorow. I remember with a shudder an exchange I had with Elmar Brok on March […]
Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug
Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug LEAKED DIPLOMATIC LETTERS sent from Colombia’s Embassy in Washington describe how a staffer with the Senate Finance Committee, which is led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, warned of repercussions if Colombia moves forward on approving the cheaper, generic form of a cancer drug. The drug is […]
Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny
Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny For many of us concerned with liberty, the letters “NDAA” have come to symbolize Washington’s ongoing effort to undermine the US Constitution in the pursuit of constant war overseas. It was the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 that introduced into law the […]
The Future of Geopolitics and Energy Markets
The Future of Geopolitics and Energy Markets Energy prices and geopolitics have been interconnected since the beginning of the twentieth century, but expanded globalization, increased industrialization, and booming fossil fuel supplies have made this relationship increasingly brittle. The political actions of energy-producing states such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, and the United States impact energy prices. Conversely, […]
Turkey Moving Close to Civil War
Turkey Moving Close to Civil War Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition leader of the social democratic CHP, has sharply criticized the push by the Turkish government to remodel Turkey into a presidential system. The CHP chief expressed concern about the future of the country. He warned that the rising discontent may lead to a civil war. “What a presidential […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship The ouster of Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu marks another troubling milestone in President Erdogan’s consolidation of dictatorial power, a development that Alon Ben-Meir sees as further enflaming the region. The forced resignation of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggests only one thing — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is […]
China Warns US: “Don’t Disturb” Hong Kong Social Order; Threatens “Bad Reaction”
China Warns US: “Don’t Disturb” Hong Kong Social Order; Threatens “Bad Reaction” Over the past few months, tensions have been high between the U.S. and China. Events such as China denying USS John C. Stennis and its escort ships access to a Hong Kong port showed just how strained relations have become between the two countries, and with […]
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization Gordon T. Long and I discuss the failure of the status quo’s “New Normal” in a new 34-minute YouTube program. It is not possible to coherently discuss the “New Normal” economy without discussing financialization–the substitution of credit expansion and speculation for productive investments in the real economy–and its sibling: globalization. Globalization is […]
Chomsky: Europe Bows to Its ‘Washington Masters’ on Everything From Snowden to Iran
Chomsky: Europe Bows to Its ‘Washington Masters’ on Everything From Snowden to Iran (ANTIMEDIA) United States exceptionalism has created a preternaturally excessive number of military installments, deployments, and bases around the world. In point of fact, as David Vine described for the Nation in September 2015: “While there are no freestanding foreign bases permanently located in the United States, there […]
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down?
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down? What would America look like with absolutely no electricity? Could you survive in a world with no lights, no cell phones, no computers, no televisions, no ATMs, no cash registers and no refrigerators? Such a world is not […]
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror Among the troubling legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency is his consolidation of the dubious legal principles that George W. Bush cobbled together to justify the Global War on Terror, explains Michael Brenner. President Barack Obama’s uneasy encounters with the law in devising numerous innovative means to prosecute the […]
