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3 Big Reasons Why The ‘Greek Debt Deal’ Is Really A German Trap
3 Big Reasons Why The ‘Greek Debt Deal’ Is Really A German Trap Greece is saved? All over the planet, news headlines are boldly proclaiming that a “deal” has been reached which will give Greece the money that it needs and keep it in the eurozone. But as you will see below, this is not […]
The Last Days Of ‘Normal Life’ In America
The Last Days Of ‘Normal Life’ In America If you have got family and friends that you would like to visit before things start getting really crazy, you should do so within the next couple of months, because these are the last days of “normal life” in America. The website where I have posted this […]
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text It is only fitting that almost exactly 24 hours after the Greek “pre-deal”, which may and will end up crashing and burning in very short notice, another long expected “deal”, one which has been about a decade in the making, was […]
Oil tumbles as Iran nuclear deal looms
Oil tumbles as Iran nuclear deal looms An offshore oil platform is seen in Huntington Beach, California September 28, 2014. REUTERS/LUCY NICHOLSON Oil prices tumbled on Monday as Iran and six world powers closed in on a nuclear deal that would end sanctions on the Islamic Republic and let more Iranian oil on to world […]
Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival”
Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival” Russia and Greece have a “special relationship of spiritual kinship and religious and historical affinity,” Vladimir Putin said yesterday, following the BRICS summit in Ulfa. Over the course of the unfolding crisis in Greece, Athens has at various times gone out of its way to remind Angela […]
Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War
Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War In the 1980s, President Reagan funded and armed Islamic fundamentalists to defeat a Soviet-backed secular regime in Afghanistan. Now, one of those ex-U.S. clients is throwing his support behind the brutal Islamic State, a lesson about geopolitical expediency, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. In a blast from the past in […]
How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack
How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack There is a lot of debate on whether Wednesday’s computer issues that shut down the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines were just a very strange coincidence (very strange) or a deliberate cyber attack. This isn’t the first possible cyber attack on the United […]
The Greek “Choice”: Hand Over Sovereignty Or Take Five Year Euro “Time Out”
The Greek “Choice”: Hand Over Sovereignty Or Take Five Year Euro “Time Out” For those who missed today’s festivities in Brussels, here is the 30,000 foot summary: Europe has given Greece a “choice”: hand over sovereignty to Germany Europe or undergo a 5 year Grexit “time out”, which is a polite euphemism for get the hell out. As […]
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that […]
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17 Robert Parry headlined on July 9th, “MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog,” and he wrote: “Many investigative journalists, including myself, have been rebuffed in repeated efforts to get verifiable proof about the case or even informational briefings.” His phrase “have been rebuffed” was linked to a July 3rd article by nsnbc’s […]
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition […]
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French Earlier we reported that Yanis Varoufakis, seemingly detained by “family reasons” would be unable to join his fellow parliamentarians and personally vote in what is likely the most important vote of Syriza’s administration: the one in which he and his party […]
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish Thomas Friedman, the New York Times op-ed-page representative of the foreign-policy elite, is unhappy with how the soon-to-be-completed Iran nuclear talks are going. He says President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, hasn’t been tough enough. Obama holds all the cards, Friedman says, but somehow the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dictating […]
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog Exclusive: Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia, reports Robert Parry. The Dutch […]
