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China Warns Officials: Allow Social Unrest, Lose Your Job
China Warns Officials: Allow Social Unrest, Lose Your Job To be sure, there are always going to be financial and geopolitical landmines and every once in awhile we – and by “we” we’re referring to the market, or the country, or humanity, or whatever collective you want to choose – are going to step on […]
Could there be a coup in Turkey?
Could there be a coup in Turkey? The situation in Turkey is bad and getting worse. It’s not just the deterioration in security amidst a wave of terrorism. Public debt might be stable, but private debt is out-of-control, the tourism sector is in free-fall, and the decline in the currency has impacted every citizen’s buying power. There is a broad […]
Bombshell: King Of Jordan Blames Turkey For Terror In Europe, Says Israel “Looks Other Way” On Al-Qaeda
Bombshell: King Of Jordan Blames Turkey For Terror In Europe, Says Israel “Looks Other Way” On Al-Qaeda When Vladimir Putin told the world that ISIS gets a significant portion of its funding by selling oil to Turkey, he had just finished meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah. The King is no stranger to confronting the jihadists. […]
Why we need to beat Russia
Why we need to beat Russia 250,000 capitalists read the Financial Times, and it has been our undertaking to chronicle our understanding of capitalism via our book The Philosophy of Capitalism. A USA led team has answered the question ‘What is The Nature of the Monetary System?’ The Monetary system has three layers – the […]
The Real Likelihood of a Nuclear War
The Real Likelihood of a Nuclear War Sputnik News.com interview with PCR Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration, shares his view that there is a real likelihood of a nuclear war breaking out. Below are the main points covered in this […]
Start of a New World War
Start of a New World War Propaganda about Russian and Chinese “aggression” has cloaked the reality of the U.S. and the West moving aggressively to encircle both countries, the start of a new world war, says John Pilger. I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the […]
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh Alex Podesta Had Sun Tsu co-authored a treatise on the art of sports with Capt. Obvious, a quote from that seminal work would probably read as follows: If your team keeps playing an offensive game and keeps losing, eventually it will end up playing a defensive game, and will lose that […]
Echoes of British Colonial India in Plans to Partition Syria
Echoes of British Colonial India in Plans to Partition Syria Russia’s decision to greatly reduce its military presence in Syria, coming as it did with little warning, has left the world struggling for explanations. Russia is to maintain a military presence at its naval base in Tartus and at the Khmeymim airbase. In fact […]
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism The capture of Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the sole surviving planner of the Paris massacre, means that the media is focusing once again on the threat of terrorist attack by Islamic State. Questions are asked about why the most wanted man in Europe was able to elude the police […]
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War The new excuse for U.S. imperial wars is “humanitarian” or “liberal” interventionism with Hillary Clinton and other proponents citing noble motives for destroying foreign societies, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller discusses. Rajan Menon’s new book, The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, launches a timely argument against a dominant argument lying behind […]
How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria
How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria Western propaganda against countries targeted for “regime change” can be especially insidious because mainstream journalists abandon skepticism and go with the flow, such as the case of Syrian “torture” photos, writes Rick Sterling. There has been a pattern of sensational but untrue reports that lead to public acceptance of U.S. […]
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’ Vows to Turn Military on Political Opposition Concerns about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian leanings have been at the fore in the nation’s political dialogue since he assumed the presidency, and appear to have been well founded, as in a televised speech today he declared […]
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military General Lloyd Austin, the outgoing head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently testified before Congress, suggesting that Washington needed to up its troop levels in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, in his own congressional testimony, still-to-be-confirmed incoming CENTCOM chief General Joseph Votel, formerly head of U.S. Special Operations Command, […]
The Netherlands Just Banned Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia over Human Rights Abuses
The Netherlands Just Banned Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia over Human Rights Abuses Landmark bill cites UN figures that Saudi-led troops has killed nearly 6,000 people in Yemen—half of them civilians. Dutch lawmakers have voted to ban weapons exports to Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s violations of humanitarian law, making the Netherlands the first country in the […]
Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria
Syrian refugee prays after arriving on shores of Greece Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be […]
