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Financial collapse leads to war
Financial collapse leads to war [This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of “melting up,” the way they used to, they have started “melting down.” My original prediction is that this will […]
Clinton Email Hints that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya
Clinton Email Hints that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya On New Year’s Eve, 3,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server were released. One of them confirms – an email dated April 2, 2011 to Clinton from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal – that: Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar […]
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen © Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters At least five people have been killed in a missile strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical facility in Yemen. The organization “strongly condemns this,” while adding that 10 people have been injured in the […]
Is Canada failing to live up to its human rights commitments with its arms deals?
Is Canada failing to live up to its human rights commitments with its arms deals? A soldier with the Gulf Co-operation Council forces prays in front of his armoured personnel carrier as his fellow solider keeps watch while they guard the Bahrain Financial Harbour in Manama. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Listen 7:58 Canada has condemned a spate […]
The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris
The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris And Ghaffar Hussain, a London Borough PREVENT manager, is listed as a co-leader for their million dollar project The Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank in London that has influenced British government national security strategies, has received over a million dollars in funding from […]
Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil
Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil The global aerospace and defense industry is out of its doldrums. According to a new report by the accounting firm Deloitte, “the resurgence of global security threats” promises a lucrative “rebound” in defense spending. The report alerts investors that “revenue growth” is “expected to take a positive turn” due […]
America’s Subservience to Saud Family
America’s Subservience to Saud Family The Saud royal family are by far the world’s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world’s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his (Aramco’s) 260 billion barrels of oil reserves were valued at $100 per […]
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode The Arab sexual assault in Cologne, Germany, occurred on New Year’s Eve when hundreds of male refugees robbed and carried out sexual assaults against over 100 girls. This illustrates one of the huge problems with allowing such a mass migration of a starkly different culture. But what has become […]
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal On Monday, we brought you “Saudi Default, Devaluation Odds Spike As Mid-East Careens Into Chaos,” in which we outlined the jump in riyal forwards and widening of CDS spreads that Riyadh witnessed in the aftermath of the kingdom’s move to […]
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil The market was supposed to save the planet. That, at least, was the argument of many economists grappling with the problem of climate change. As fossil fuels became scarcer, they pointed out, the price of oil and natural gas would go up. And then other options, like solar and wind, […]
Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine
Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine Exclusive: With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that “benefited” from a neoconservative-driven “regime change,” though the blame will always be placed elsewhere – in this case, on the demonized Russian President Putin, writes Robert Parry. Nearly two years since U.S. officials helped foment a […]
Saudi warplanes attack Iranian embassy in Yemen – Iran
Saudi warplanes attack Iranian embassy in Yemen – Iran Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of using warplanes to attack the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. Some guards were reportedly wounded in the attack, according to state news channel IRIB. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen says it will investigate the accusation, according to […]
Down the Ratholes of the Future
Down the Ratholes of the Future The new year now upon us has brought out the usual quota of predictions about what 2016 has in store, and I propose as usual to make my own contribution to that theme. I’ve noted more than once in the past that people who make predictions about the future really […]
Contribution from Norway — War & Money
Contribution from Norway — War & Money COMMENT: Good morning, Martin. Yesterday I bought an old booklet printed for 10 NoK at the Armed Forces Museum: “Laws, resolutions and prescripts due to circumstances of war”, by the Justice Department, printed in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1917. I thought I there would find the outline of […]
