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Europe Fractures: France “Prepared To Support Greece” In Debt Renegotiations
Europe Fractures: France “Prepared To Support Greece” In Debt Renegotiations Despite Angela Merkel’s insistence on numerous occasions this past week that there will be “no debt renegotiations,” it appears a schism at the core of Europe is opening. As France24 reports,following a meeting between France’s finance minister Michel Sapin and Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the […]
Ukraine “Truce”? Tanks Are Rolling In Poland As NATO Plans Permanent Eastern European Bases
Ukraine “Truce”? Tanks Are Rolling In Poland As NATO Plans Permanent Eastern European Bases With Ukraine, Germany, and France all expressing their concern this morning about “conflict escalation” between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukraine military, the so-called “truce” appears to be hanging by a thread of semanticism (despite OSCE’s please for respect of the cease-fire and the […]
How to Start a Nuclear War
How to Start a Nuclear War The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers must never, ever fight. Yet Washington just announced […]
The Ideology of the New Ukraine
The Ideology of the New Ukraine The ideology of the new, post-coup, Ukraine, is the ideology of its leaders. Above all, Dmitriy Yarosh, the founder of Right Sector, is that; but so too are Andrei Beletsky, the founder of Azov Battalion; and Andriy Parubiy and Oleh Tyahnybok, the co-founders of the “Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine,” the […]
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup If you wonder how the lethal “group think” on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what’s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who “matters” and tossed out almost […]
Superpower Blunders: Czechoslovakia in 1938
Superpower Blunders: Czechoslovakia in 1938 The Czechoslovakia crisis of 1938 marked a pivotal shift in the balance of power in Central Europe, putting the major world superpowers in a collision course. The policies of one superpower in particular made inevitable what was to come less than a year later – World War II. This episode […]
EU teetering on brink of collapse
EU teetering on brink of collapse Europe won the Cold War. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell a quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States squandered its peace dividend in an attempt to maintain global dominance, and Europe quietly became more prosperous, more integrated, and more of a player […]
Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine
Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine The most recent military draft in Ukraine has been described as “problematic” by Kiev’s army spokesman. The recruitment effort, coming amid ever more intense fighting in the country’s east, sees a lack of enthusiasm on the part of potential soldiers. “The fourth wave of […]
ECB Threatens Athens With Bank Funding Cutoff If No Deal In One Month: February 28 Is Now D-Day For Greece
ECB Threatens Athens With Bank Funding Cutoff If No Deal In One Month: February 28 Is Now D-Day For Greece As Deutsche Bank’s George Saravelos politely puts it, “Developments since the Greek election on Sunday have moved very fast.” And indeed, so far the new Tsipras cabinet, and here we focus on the words and […]
Pentagon Silent on Current Use of DU in Iraq
Pentagon Silent on Current Use of DU in Iraq Back in October, I reported that, “A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing, is responsible for more Depleted Uranium (DU) contamination than any other platform, according to the International Coalition to Ban Uranium […]
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza?
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza? First off, no, I don’t think Syriza is a problem, I just couldn’t resist the Sound of Music link once it popped into my head, as in ‘headlines you can sing’. I think Syriza may well be a solution, if it plays its cards right. But that […]
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’ Israel and Hezbollah are at war. On top of everything else that is going on in the world, now we have a new war in the Middle East, and nobody is quite certain what is going to […]
Gorbachev: US dragging Russia into new Cold War, which might grow into armed conflict
Gorbachev: US dragging Russia into new Cold War, which might grow into armed conflict Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the US of dragging Russia into a new Cold War. The former Soviet president fears the chill in relations could eventually spur an armed conflict. “Plainly speaking, the US has already dragged us into a new Cold […]
Can Syriza renegotiate Greece’s multi-billion bailout?
Can Syriza renegotiate Greece’s multi-billion bailout? Left-wing protest party facing up to the political reality of governing Europe’s most indebted nation. The Greek left-wing party Syriza gets down to work, after storming to power on an anti-austerity ticket. From protest party to ambitious political newcomers, Syriza is facing up to the political reality of governing […]
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again? That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers such as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India […]
