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Pathetic Zombie Wars
Pathetic Zombie Wars Our New Friend, al-Qaeda The wars go on! We’re not against them. We might as well be against stomach gas – it will happen whether we like it or not. Real wars, as we’ve been exploring recently, are glorious and moronic. But zombie wars are just sordid are pathetic. A new item in the Wall […]
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia China’s land reclamation moves in the South China Sea may be cause for reproach, but no one will do a thing about Beijing’s island-building program beyond the huff and puff of objection. While the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been […]
Presenting The New Plan For A Eurozone Superstate—–Curly, Larry And Moe
Presenting The New Plan For A Eurozone Superstate—–Curly, Larry And Moe ENLARGE Dutch finance chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, left, with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, center, and President of the European Council Donald Tusk, right. By Matthew Dalton European officials released a plan to address flaws in the eurozone’s makeup that would see its members sacrifice more […]
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal Gus Van Harten, author of ‘Sold Down the Yangtze,’ breaks down the FIPA’s impacts. In his new book, Sold Down the Yangtze, trade law expert and Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten takes apart the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China, detailing how he perceives […]
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014 In the fictional country of Botnia, “Birdman”, the rebel leader, lives in a ramshackle shed in the woods while his separatist troops fight to destabilize a NATO-friendly country from the also fictional town of Alpha, a make-believe rebel stronghold. Fortunately for […]
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts The IMF, whose bailout operations are absorbed by the taxpayers in the member countries whenever a particular bailed-out nation defaults, announced on Friday, June 19th, that it will “continue to support Ukraine through its Lending-into-Arrears Policy even in the event that a negotiated agreement with creditors in line with […]
Paul Craig Roberts’ Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington
Paul Craig Roberts’ Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington Paul Craig Roberts’ address to the Conference on the European/Russian Crisis, Delphi, Greece, June 20-21, 2015 Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy, Associate Editor, Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University, William […]
Debt, War and Empire By Other Means
Debt, War and Empire By Other Means This video below may help one to understand some of the seemingly obtuse demands from the Troika with regard to Greece. The video is a bit dated, but the debt scheme it describes remains largely unchanged. The primary development has been the creation of an experiment called the European Union […]
Furious Russia Will “Respond In Kind” To Europe’s “Political” Asset Seizures
Furious Russia Will “Respond In Kind” To Europe’s “Political” Asset Seizures On Thursday, nearly 50 Belgian companies were told to disclose their Russian state assets, setting the stage for the seizure of Russian property in connection with the disputed $50 billion Yukos verdict. In short, Russia was required to submit a plan for a €1.6 billion payment […]
Troika Exploits Greek Bank Run As Varoufakis Slams “Pernicious” Banking Sector “Leaks”
Troika Exploits Greek Bank Run As Varoufakis Slams “Pernicious” Banking Sector “Leaks” As expected, no progress was made between Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis and EU finance ministers at Thursday’s Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg. Varoufakiswarned his counterparts that Europe was very close to “accepting” a Greek “accident”, something the FinMin said EU officials have a “moral duty” […]
The Glorious Imbecility of War
The Glorious Imbecility of War Napoleon Returns Today, on the eve of the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, we do not celebrate war. Only a fool would celebrate something so horrible. But we pay our respects to the glorious imbecility of it. War may be dreadful, little more than a racket in many ways, […]
LEAKED (Denied then Confirmed): ECB Not Sure If Greek Banks Can Open Monday
LEAKED (Denied then Confirmed): ECB Not Sure If Greek Banks Can Open Monday There seems to be a growing willingness in the Eurozone to get this over with, to let Greece default and go from there – with all the options that this might entail. But even if a last-minute bailout agreement materializes, one thing […]
Inciting Bank Runs as a Negotiating Tactic
Inciting Bank Runs as a Negotiating Tactic The troika of Greek creditors has gone into full-frontal morals-be-damned attack mode, handpicking arms from a weapons arsenal we haven’t seen used before, and that we never should have seen in an environment that insists – and prides – on presenting itself as a union, both in name […]
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse Congress members are often pressured in how to vote by the moneyed interests that buy their television ads, which in turn persuade the media to “cover” them nicely and dumb people to vote for them. But more often they are pressured in how to vote by the […]
