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Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip
Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip Move follows brutal killing of Japanese by ISIL and comes amid soaring ratings for PM over handling of hostage crisis. Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State of Iraq […]
War and Default in Europe Pose Merkel’s Biggest Challenge
War and Default in Europe Pose Merkel’s Biggest Challenge (Bloomberg) — After almost a decade as German chancellor, Angela Merkel faces a moment of truth as a resurgent Russia and fed-up Greeks challenge her blueprint for Europe’s future. As bloodshed in eastern Ukraine escalates and the new Greek government rejects austerity championed by Merkel, her […]
Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia
Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia Crimea cannot be blamed for seceding from Ukraine – a country in turmoil – and choosing to join Russia, said former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. He also added that Ukraine “is not destined to join the EU.” READ MORE: French President Hollande calls for broader autonomy […]
Greece: Greenspan predicts exit from euro inevitable
Greece: Greenspan predicts exit from euro inevitable The former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. He told the BBC he could not see who would be willing to put up more loans to bolster Greece’s struggling economy. Greece wants to re-negotiate its bailout, […]
Historically speaking, Germany a bigger deadbeat than Greece
Historically speaking, Germany a bigger deadbeat than Greece Germany’s debt defaults after the two world wars dwarfs anything Greece has done, economists say In its attempt to bust the austerity shackles that lenders have imposed, Greece’s new leftist government is finding a particularly unsympathetic ear in Germany, the European Union’s paymaster, which says it is […]
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War 5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are always pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists. A survey by the Pew Research Center […]
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High If it’s not one geopolitical concern these days it’s invariably another. If today’s story isn’t weak-handed Greece escalating the rhetoric in its hopeless game of chicken with eurozone creditors, it’s ISIS ratcheting up the shock factor in a campaign to scare U.S. coalition partners away from an increasingly ineffectual […]
Ukraine ‘Peace’ Talks In Tatters: Defiant Putin “Won’t Tolerate Unipolar World”; Hollande Proposes “Strong Autonomy” For Rebel Region
Ukraine ‘Peace’ Talks In Tatters: Defiant Putin “Won’t Tolerate Unipolar World”; Hollande Proposes “Strong Autonomy” For Rebel Region Just as the existing ‘truce’ in Ukraine has been made a total farce as 1000s of military and civilians have been killed, so any ‘hope’ that this weekend’s “peace efforts” will result in anything but more talk is rapidly […]
Defiance and Charm: A Measured First Week for New Greek Leader
Defiance and Charm: A Measured First Week for New Greek Leader Minister of Administrative Reform Georgios Katrougalos sits cheerfully in his new office and rejoices about his little revolution. He has just announced that soon the first 3,500 public-sector employees can return to work, including the famous cleaning ladies who led the protest against job cuts. […]
Why the Beautiful New Greek Government Is Screwed
Why the Beautiful New Greek Government Is Screwed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, often in a good-cop-bad-cop manner, have been cruising through the media, lobbing a mix of admirable rhetoric, verbal hand grenades, and down-to-earth explanations. And they have become white-hot media darlings. So Varoufakis was in Germany to meet […]
Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia
Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia It’s been an odd few days for Greece’s new PM Alexis Tsipras. From being lambasted by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, shunned by Angela Merkel’s henchmen, holding hands with Jean-Claude Juncker, and losing a key funding channel from Mario Draghi; Tsipras’ anti-austerity platform has been ‘supported’ by Barack Obama and […]
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda […]
The Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom
The Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom Was the United States compelled to attack Afghanistan and Iraq by the events of September 11, 2001? A key to answering that rather enormous question may lie in the secrets that the U.S. government is keeping about Saudi Arabia. Some have long claimed that what looked like a […]
Ukraine conflict: Why U.S. arms could lead to ‘serious trouble’
Ukraine conflict: Why U.S. arms could lead to ‘serious trouble’ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Ukrainian president For nearly a year now, the U.S. has spurned calls to provide arms to Ukraine in its increasingly bloody conflict with Russian-backed separatists. But now, officials in the White House are musing openly about sending […]
30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe
30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe The NATO Response Force in Europe might increase to 30,000 troops, more than double the current 13,000, said the alliance’s secretary general after a defense ministers’ meeting in Brussels. Most of the troops are set to be stationed near Russia’s borders. NATO’s rapid […]
