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How General Dynamics Just Got A $600 Million Check From Uncle Sam, Courtesy Of ISIS | Zero Hedge
How General Dynamics Just Got A $600 Million Check From Uncle Sam, Courtesy Of ISIS | Zero Hedge. Sometimes, in the fog of whatever is the Mideast war du jour started initially under a “humanitarian intervention” pretext then quickly morphing into yet another counter-Syria campaign to appease various Saudi and Qatari emirs and princes, it […]
Battleships And Helicopters Join Hunt For Missing Submarine: Sweden Prepares To “Use Weapons To Surface Sub” | Zero Hedge
Battleships And Helicopters Join Hunt For Missing Submarine: Sweden Prepares To “Use Weapons To Surface Sub” | Zero Hedge. The hunt for missing October continues. Recall that over the weekend, one of the less reported stories was that Sweden had deployed its various army, navy and air force units to hunt down what was reportedly a damaged […]
The Tragedy of NATO: Economic Problems Embedded in Collective Security Agreements – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada
The Tragedy of NATO: Economic Problems Embedded in Collective Security Agreements – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. The economic phenomenon known as the “Tragedy of the Commons” instructs us that commonly held resources that are insufficiently protected will be plundered to extinction. The phenomenon was recognized in the early nineteenth century to explain why the […]
If Republicans Win Control of the Senate in November, Nuclear War with Russia Will Be More Likely. Here’s Why. Washington’s Blog
If Republicans Win Control of the Senate in November, Nuclear War with Russia Will Be More Likely. Here’s Why. Washington’s Blog. Senate Bill S. 2277 is sponsored by 26 Republicans and no Democrats, and it would give President Obama the virtually unlimited authority to take U.S. to war against Russia in defense of the Ukrainian Government that Obama’s […]
Resource Insights: Oil decline: Price makes the story
Resource Insights: Oil decline: Price makes the story. When the world’s business editors sent their reporters canvassing to find out what is behind the recent plunge in the world oil price, they were doing what they do almost every day for every type of market: stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and real estate. In financial journalism […]
Sweden Deploys Army, Air Force, Navy Near Stockholm Over Reported Damaged Russian Sub; Moscow Denies | Zero Hedge
Sweden Deploys Army, Air Force, Navy Near Stockholm Over Reported Damaged Russian Sub; Moscow Denies | Zero Hedge. Over the weekend, while the world was focusing on the threat of Ebola contagion in the US and around the globe, Sweden’s otherwise sleepy capital Stockholm found itself the location of a blitz military operation involving the […]
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog. Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading. Of the ten essays included, eight are on basically the same topic, resulting in some repetition and even some contradiction. But when things that need repeating are repeated this […]
Yemen’s Houthi rebels storm governor’s house – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Yemen’s Houthi rebels storm governor’s house – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. Rebels continue their military advance, storming government buildings, as Iran comes out in support of their cause. Houthi fighters withdrew from the town of Radaa, an al-Qaeda stronghold, which they seized on Friday [AP] Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the office and […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch. It was May 23, 2012, and President Obama was giving a graduation speech at the Air Force Academy when he told the assembled cadets that they should “never bet against the United States of America… [because] the United States has […]
