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The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power
The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power “We are under pressure from the Treasury to justify our budget, and commercial espionage is one way of making a direct contribution to the nation’s balance of payments” -Sir Colin McColl, former MI6 Chief For years public figures have condemned cyber espionage committed against the […]
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe The President of France has come up with a very creative way of solving the European debt crisis. On Sunday, a piece authored by French President Francois Hollande suggested that the ultimate solution to the problems currently plaguing […]
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior Exclusive: Saudi-Israeli apologists are doing back flips to justify why the U.S. interest in having peaceful relations with Iran should take a back seat to sectarian and regional desires of Riyadh and Tel Aviv, including that peace with Iran will cause the Saudis to misbehave even more, notes Daniel Lazare. As the former publisher of […]
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from the Italian company Hacking Team, which makes off-the-shelf […]
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland […]
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation Conserving what is failing is not a path to stability. What’s in demand but scarce is valuable. This is one of those scale-invariant principles: businesses large and small want what’s scarce and in demand, because that’s what generates profits. What’s abundant but not in demand is […]
MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?
MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case? Exclusive: In 1964, the Tonkin Gulf incident was used to justify the Vietnam War although U.S. intelligence quickly knew the facts were not what the U.S. government claimed. Now, the MH-17 case is being exploited to justify a new Cold War as U.S. intelligence again is silent about what it knows, […]
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State to Assad, the US is fighting terrorists of its own creation by partnering with other terrorists of its own creation Geopolitics is a murky game. Precisely how murky is reflected in the well-worn phrase, “The […]
Greece’s Lesson For Russia
Greece’s Lesson For Russia “Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.” — International Monetary Fund Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot […]
Greece Surrendered: But to Whom Exactly?
Greece Surrendered: But to Whom Exactly? On July 12, Greece surrendered abjectly and totally. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who had promised to combat the austerity measure that are driving the Greek people to ruin, poverty and suicide, betrayed all his promises, denied the will of the people expressed in the July 5 referendum, and led […]
Thank Goodness Everything’s Fixed
Thank Goodness Everything’s Fixed The trick is to borrow as much as you can and leverage it to the hilt, and buy, buy, buy. Thank goodness everything’s been fixed. Now that the bigshots in the Eurozone have given Greece the Humphrey Bogart treatment– When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it, Bogart’s line as he bullied […]
Farage on Europe at the Heritage Foundation
Farage on Europe at the Heritage Foundation Nigel Farage may be the only practical politician these days because he came from the trading sector. He explains the Euro-Project and its failures. He makes it clear that the Greek people never voted to enter the euro, and explains that it was forced upon them by Goldman Sachs […]
The Constitution of the EU’s Dictatorship
The Constitution of the EU’s Dictatorship It’s here: http://www.esm.europa.eu/pdf/ESM Treaty consolidated 13-03-2014.pdf That’s the treaty establishing (which was originally done in 2012) the ultimate lending-fund for what the EU now officially considers to be a permanent economic crisis in Europe, of member-nations that are experiencing “severe financing problems,” and that are therefore continually ripe for […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces Whether China is busy championing trade deals outside of the US dollar, buying up some of the world’s biggest companies, taking over foreign housing markets, or building massive networks of nuclear or wind power grids, it is clear that the country is a world power […]
