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‘Sanction Spiral’: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Soar
‘Sanction Spiral’: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Soar The infamous “sanction spiral” imposed on Russia by the US and Europe with such fanfare last year in the wake of the Ukrainian fiasco has receded from Western headlines. In Russia, it coagulated with the oil price plunge, and during the first two quarters this year, the economy […]
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal Japan’s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine’s Rada, back before Poroshenko’s “lustration law” banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives […]
Forget the New World Order, Here’s Who Really Runs the World
Forget the New World Order, Here’s Who Really Runs the World For decades, extreme ideologies on both the left and the right have clashed over the conspiratorial concept of a shadowy secret government pulling the strings on the world’s heads of state and captains of industry. The phrase New World Order is largely derided as a sophomoric […]
Canadian Oil Trapped Without More Pipeline Capacity
Canadian Oil Trapped Without More Pipeline Capacity Adding insult to injury for Canada’s oil industry, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out against the Keystone XL Pipeline on September 22, ending several years of silence and waffling on the controversial issue. That comes as a blow to TransCanada, the project’s backer, who wanted to connect Canada’s oil […]
Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda
Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda Mulcair may have the most explaining to do in tonight’s French-language leaders’ debate So now we know. The woman who wants to be the next Democrat to occupy the White House has made a decision that the president she hopes to succeed hasn’t, or won’t. Hillary […]
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost Middle East sage on ISIS, refugees, Harper, ‘short-termism’ and more. A Tyee interview. Arguably the world’s most famous international war correspondent, Robert Fisk has been travelling to strife-ravaged regions of the world for over 30 years. His columns — he has been contributing to the British […]
History Doesn’t Go In a Straight Line
History Doesn’t Go In a Straight Line Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change. Noam Chomsky in 2011. Andrew Rusk / Flickr Throughout his illustrious career, one of Noam Chomsky’s chief preoccupations has been questioning — and urging us to question — the assumptions and […]
US to bring in new advanced nuclear bombs to Germany – report
US to bring in new advanced nuclear bombs to Germany – report Starting third quarter 2015, the US Air Force is starting preparations to bring in new B61 nuclear bombs to Luftwaffe’s Büchel Air Base, according to ZDF TV channel. German parliament previously called for American nukes to be removed. The base in Rhineland-Palatinate in […]
2,000 Russian Troops Head To Syria For “First Phase” Of Mission To Support Assad
2,000 Russian Troops Head To Syria For “First Phase” Of Mission To Support Assad With each passing day, The Kremlin seems less and less interested in observing any niceties with regard to how it describes Russia’s military involvement in Syria. Initially, it seemed likely that Moscow would go the Ukraine route by providing logistical support […]
America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I
America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I Some 15 months ago I published a piece onAmerican Foreign Policy Fiascos, in which I summarized the significant negative progress that has been achieved through American involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and Georgia, among others, and then went on to boldly predict that the Ukraine is likewise going to […]
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups”
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups” Now that Europe’s worsening refugee crisis and Russia’s stepped up support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad have (finally) focused the world’s attention on Syria’s four-year, bloody civil war, inquiring minds want to know: how did it happen that the country, which is […]
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany 20 new nuclear bombs, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima. […]
British General Threatens Military Coup If Corbyn Elected
British General Threatens Military Coup If Corbyn Elected Late last week we brought you a collection of vivid images from a military coup in the West African nation of Burkina Faso where forces aligned with former President Blaise Compaoré arrested the acting President and Prime Minister ahead of democratic elections planned for October. To be sure, most […]
Greek snap election: New Democracy concedes defeat to Tsipras’s leftist Syriza
Greek snap election: New Democracy concedes defeat to Tsipras’s leftist Syriza Greek left-wing party Syriza has secured 145 seats in the country’s 300-member parliament and is set to form a ruling coalition with Independent Greeks after winning 35.5 percent of the vote. The leader of New Democracy, Syriza’s main rival, has conceded defeat. “The electoral […]
