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Why I Don’t Criticize Russia, China, Or Other Unabsorbed Governments
Why I Don’t Criticize Russia, China, Or Other Unabsorbed Governments Depending on whose political echo chamber I happen to be arguing with on a given day, one common criticism I run into a fair bit which many of my readers have surely also encountered is that I put all my energy into criticizing the foreign […]
Iraq Protestors Storm US Embassy In Baghdad
Iraq Protestors Storm US Embassy In Baghdad Thousands of Iraqi protestors attacked various parts of the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday after US airstrikes killed dozens of Iran-backed Iraqi militia over the weekend. The attack on the embassy has been widely documented on Twitter with videos and pictures showing the destruction. Protestors are currently breaking into the #US Embassy in […]
“US Dominance In Mideast Is Over”: Iran Declares After Joint Drills With Russia & China
“US Dominance In Mideast Is Over”: Iran Declares After Joint Drills With Russia & China At a moment the US struck five supposedly ‘Iran-linked’ militia bases in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, sending regional tensions soaring, unprecedented four-day long joint naval drills involving Iran, Russia and China outside the Persian Gulf were simultaneously winding down. Iran used […]
Iraqi Militias Vow “Strong Response” To US ‘Occupiers’ Imminent After Airstrikes
Iraqi Militias Vow “Strong Response” To US ‘Occupiers’ Imminent After Airstrikes After US fighter jets bombed five facilities controlled by the Kataib Hezbollah militia group in Iraq and Syria on Sunday in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base — which in turn killed at least 24 […]
Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal
Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal This is getting really, really, really weird. WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in […]
Israel will not allow Iranian forces to station in Iraq: IDF chief
Israel will not allow Iranian forces to station in Iraq: IDF chief BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – The Chief-of-Staff for the Israeli Armed Forces, Aviv Kochavi, said on Wednesday that Israel cannot allow Iran to station militarily in Iraq. According to Ynet News, Kochavi stated on the seventh anniversary of the death of the former Chief-of-Staff, Amnon […]
An End to the World as We Know It?
An End to the World as We Know It? Congress and the White House compete in year-end stupidity sweepstakes At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests.” Palmerston was saying […]
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, construction of which is intended to transport 55 billion cubic metres of Russian gas to Germany per year under the Baltic Sea, is a ragbag of options and promises. The fruit of a deal between Berlin and Moscow, it has troubled […]
Can China Dethrone the US Dollar as Global Reserve
Can China Dethrone the US Dollar as Global Reserve As a result of this ‘trade war’ China has let the yuan slide versus the USD which is a warning to Trump, specifically Mnuchin. On the US dollar as reserve currency, that is a tough thing to break especially for China since the yuan is not […]
Welcome to the Era of Intensifying Chaos and New Weapons of Conflict
Welcome to the Era of Intensifying Chaos and New Weapons of Conflict Geopolitics has moved from a slow-moving, relatively predictable chess match to rapidly evolving 3-D chess in which the rules keep changing in unpredictable ways. A declining standard of living in the developed world, declining growth for the developed world and geopolitical jockeying for […]
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won”
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won” Authored by David B. Collum, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Cornell University (Email: dbc6@cornell.edu, Twitter: @DavidBCollum), “I hope David comes to his senses.” ~ Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb), best-selling author and Professor at NYU Every year, David Collum writes a detailed […]
Gladio: the Story of a Conspiracy
Gladio: the Story of a Conspiracy Rome. Albert Camus in his essay “L’Exil d’Hélène” discusses contemporary disregard for the Greek value of limits. Camus writes that only the artist by his nature recognizes his limits, limits which the historic spirit disregards. The very idea of a super-secret organization like Gladio to remake the world in […]
The News Churn Memory Hole: How The MSM Lies Even When Telling The Truth
The News Churn Memory Hole: How The MSM Lies Even When Telling The Truth “This goofy ass Trump letter is gonna get more outraged coverage than the bombshell report on the entire Afghanistan war being a lie and frankly I don’t know if I can handle that right now,” popular Youtube commentator Kyle Kulinski tweeted today. The post […]
