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Presidential Crimes Then And Now — Paul Craig Roberts
Presidential Crimes Then And Now — Paul Craig Roberts Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015) Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants there is such […]
For US and Russia, All Roads Lead to China
For US and Russia, All Roads Lead to China Recently I attended an event where the speaker referred to the interplay between economics and security in Asia as being that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll represents the positive economic growth and interaction within the region, while Mr. Hyde represents the increasing security […]
Turkey-Russia Tensions Spike as Russia Moves Into Northern Syria
Turkey-Russia Tensions Spike as Russia Moves Into Northern Syria Russian air strikes in Syria are coming closer and closer to the Turkish border in Latakia in the northwest, and there are rumors that Russia is looking at establishing an airbase at Qamishli in the largely Kurdish northeast of Syria. Turkey risks having Russia as a […]
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials […]
Risk Premium Returns To Oil Markets As Geopolitical Tensions Rise
Risk Premium Returns To Oil Markets As Geopolitical Tensions Rise Geopolitical risk premiums are likely to return to oil markets as the possibility of an attack on a large petroleum facility grows significantly amid rising tensions in the Middle East, possibly putting a floor on prices. “The risk of an attack is greater than 50pc, which […]
The Powers That Be Have Lost Control: “Everything Is Falling Apart Everywhere”
The Powers That Be Have Lost Control: “Everything Is Falling Apart Everywhere” The entire system has been revealed for the sham it really is since the start of the New Year. Stock markets are crashing, the global economy has stalled, and the powers that be appear to have lost control. As Andy Hoffman of Miles Franklin notes […]
They Tell Us Nothing But Lies — Paul Craig Roberts
They Tell Us Nothing But Lies — Paul Craig Roberts A British governmental inquiry has concluded that Russian President Putin “probably approved” the killing of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium poisoning. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44002.htm As no evidence is provided for the surmise, we can conclude that this report on an unresolved event that happened a decade ago is part […]
Europe Moving Into Meltdown?
Europe Moving Into Meltdown? QUESTION: Marty, now the OECD is predicting a financial crash worse than the 2007-2009 event in Europe because they say there is over €1 trillion in bad loans that cannot be collected. They seem to be also changing their opinion to fit your model. Were they there in Berlin? ANSWER: We cannot comment on […]
The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures)
The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures) Give me that!! It belongs to the Chinese now! h/t @FedPorn As we previously detailed, two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting geopolitical landscape are the death of the petrodollar and the idea of yuan hegemony. In November […]
Yanis Varoufakis Reveals – Berlin Blocked Greece From Chinese Funding During Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis Reveals – Berlin Blocked Greece From Chinese Funding During Crisis Hundreds of millions of people throughout the Western world are being forced to admit an obvious, yet uncomfortable reality. Democracy is dead. Your vote and your voice doesn’t matter. Not at all. No group of people understand this as intimately as the Greeks. They voted […]
Turning Change into Chaos
Turning Change into Chaos Early U.S. presidents warned that foreign entanglements could endanger the Republic, but it turns out that modern U.S. interventions are hazardous to the rest of the world as well, achieving neither democracy nor human rights, while spreading chaos and death, a tragic turn addressed by ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. A […]
Defeat is Victory
Defeat is Victory John Holcroft On the wall of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from his novel 1984 there were three slogans: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH It occurred to me that these apply just a little bit too well to the way the Washington, DC establishment operates. War certainly is peace: just […]
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other “terrorists.” Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn’t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority […]
GPM Global Forecast (01-18-16)
GPM Global Forecast (01-18-16) Iran Enters a New Era as Nuclear Sanctions are Lifted Background The United States and EU have lifted economic sanctions on Iran following confirmation from the United Nations that the country is following through on its obligations set out in last year’s nuclear accord. Outlook Implementation Day arrived earlier than many […]
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution A leading columnist in Canada’s Globe and Mail daily newspaper known in the past to voice concern about the global warming emergency has penned two columns recently in support of Alberta tar sands pipelines, including praising the efforts of the premier […]
