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Financial Warfare Is Real
Financial Warfare Is Real In my 2011 book, Currency Wars, I gave a detailed description of the first-ever financial war game sponsored by the Department of Defense. This financial war game took place in 2009 at the top-secret Applied Physics Laboratory located about twenty miles north of Washington, D.C., in the Maryland countryside. Unlike typical war […]
In Brief: The Silent Threat of Canada to World Peace
In Brief: The Silent Threat of Canada to World Peace Responsibility for war crimes attaches most to national governments along with the arms makers and military services they finance. The same is true of crimes against humanity. Citizens become responsible with their governments if they are blind to what their governments are doing in their name in […]
2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran
2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran 2020 began and ended with high-profile assassinations of Iranians, a buildup of the US military on Iran’s borders, and fears of another major war in the Middle East. Amid increasing hostility towards Tehran, the United States is building up its […]
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right?
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right? So party on, because “the worst year ever” is ending and the rebound of financial markets, already the greatest in recorded history, will only become more fabulous. Of the lavish banquet of absurdities laid out in 2020, one of the most delectable is Time magazine’s December 14 cover declaring that […]
Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang
Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You hide in your mansion While the young people’s blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud You’ve thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world – Bob Dylan, […]
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack The editor-in-chief was interviewed on the radio program By Any Means Necessary about the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. government computers. Listen to it here. (16 minutes) Typical Russiagate articles in the corporate press follow this pattern: Russia is specifically blamed for something, like a hack or “undermining American democracy,” […]
Russian Warplanes Pounding Turkish Proxies in Greater Idlib
RUSSIAN WARPLANES POUNDING TURKISH PROXIES IN GREATER IDLIB On December 24 and 25, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on positions of Turkish-backed militant groups in northern Lattakia. A large part of the airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Kabani. Photos shared by opposition activists show smoke […]
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus As the coronavirus spread in China, the government stage-managed what appeared on the domestic internet to make the virus look less severe and the authorities more capable, according to thousands of leaked directives and other files. In the early hours of […]
With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever
With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever The U.S. media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the U.S. is depicted as aberrational. Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Brookings Institute May 27, 2015 in Washington, DC spoke about […]
China Restricts Electricity Use Amid Coal Shortage
China Restricts Electricity Use Amid Coal Shortage Despite the swift industrial recovery from the pandemic, factories in areas in China are working only part-time, and residents in several provinces are asked to save electricity, while authorities are turning off street lights and billboards, warning of coal shortages this winter. In at least three provinces in […]
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut British retailers have urged the government to make an urgent effort to prevent prolonged suspension of cross-Channel transport, which they say would disrupt supplies of fresh produce to UK consumers. To prevent the spread of a new, more transmissible variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist […]
China Endures Worsening Electricity Shortages In Name Of Punishing Australia
China Endures Worsening Electricity Shortages In Name Of Punishing Australia Coal is among the latest in a growing list of major Australian exports hit by severe restrictions in China, also including commodities like cotton, timber wine, lobster, and barley. While Chinese citizens might be able to forgo luxuries for a while like Aussie wine as well […]
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction “Earth abides.” – Toilet stall graffiti, West Bank I reckon, after all is said and said about the man, he’ll end up being considered the closest we modern political movement types have had to a real life Socrates. In more recent photos, Noam Chomsky, with […]
FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed
FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed Security consulting company FireEye has been hacked and their “Red Team” tools, which was their proprietary intrusion detection and testing toolkit has been stolen. In a blog post about the incident the company attributed the breach to a highly skilled nation state actor possessing “world class capabilities.” FireEye’s […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. A portion of China’s Great Wall at dawn. (Hao Wei, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Those boneheaded Trump people explained […]
