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As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up
As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up For all of 2019 December has been a magnet. A number of major geopolitical issues come to head this month and many of them have everything to do with energy. This is the month that Russian gas giant Gazprom was due to finish production on three major pipeline […]
Trade Wars Just Getting Started
Trade Wars Just Getting Started Markets are eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the so-called “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China. Both parties are trying to reach a mini-deal involving simple tariff reductions and a truce on new tariffs along with Chinese purchases of pork and soybeans from the U.S. The likely success […]
Fake News By Omission : The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool
Fake News By Omission : The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool Western mass media have continued their conspiracy of silence on the OPCW scandal, making no significant mention yet this month of the leaks which have been emerging from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons indicating that the US, France and UK bombed Syria […]
Blocking SWIFT Access Would Be “Declaration Of War”: Russia Warns Against US ‘Nuclear Option’
Blocking SWIFT Access Would Be “Declaration Of War”: Russia Warns Against US ‘Nuclear Option’ Last year during the height of controversy over the Kerch Strait incident, while two dozen Ukrainian sailors were still being held by Russia, Washington’s special envoy to Ukraine at the time, Kurt Volker, floated the possibility of Washington blocking Russian banks from SWIFT. […]
Russia Air Launches Hypersonic Missile In Arctic As Tensions Surge
Russia Air Launches Hypersonic Missile In Arctic As Tensions Surge Reuters is reporting that Russian state-owned TASS is making big claims this weekend that a Russian military jet has air-launched a hypersonic missile in the Arctic. TASS cites several Russian military sources, who said a Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor jet air-launched a Kinjal (Dagger) hypersonic missile over […]
PETER HITCHENS: My secret meeting with mole at the heart of The Great Poison Gas Scandal
PETER HITCHENS: My secret meeting with mole at the heart of The Great Poison Gas Scandal I stood outside the safe house, in a road I cannot name, in a major European city I cannot identify, not sure what I might find inside. I had no way of being sure. I had travelled a long […]
America’s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar
America’s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar America’s tariffs against China are already showing signs of undermining the global economy and will create a funding crisis for the Federal Government when it leads to foreigners no longer buying US Treasury debt and selling down their existing dollar holdings. A subversive attempt by America […]
US Enraged After 6 More EU Nations Join INSTEX To Bypass Iran Sanctions
US Enraged After 6 More EU Nations Join INSTEX To Bypass Iran Sanctions On Friday six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle serving as a ‘SWIFT alternative’ to bypass US sanctions on Iran. Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, […]
Eastern Europe Is Turning Into An Energy Battleground
Eastern Europe Is Turning Into An Energy Battleground Bulgaria has agreed to allow NATO to use its Black Sea port for naval coordination efforts as tensions rise between the Western military alliance and Russia. The agreement was reached following a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at the White […]
BRICS Nations Discuss Shared Crypto to Break Away From USD and SWIFT
BRICS Nations Discuss Shared Crypto to Break Away From USD and SWIFT ANALYSIS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, or the BRICS economic bloc, are engaging in discussions to issue cross-national digital money in order to reduce the dependence of their economies on the United States, as reported by Cointelegraph on Nov. 14. What will the […]
Narrative Managers Faceplant In Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job
Narrative Managers Faceplant In Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job Imperialist propaganda firm Bellingcat has published a response to the ever-expanding OPCW scandal, and it’s got to be seen to be believed. Before we begin I should highlight that Bellingcat is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own cofounder was set up to do overtly what […]
Who Rules the World?
Who Rules the World? Elites. They’re all over the news these days. But who are they and what do we know about them? An excellent new study, Who Rules the World? A Portrait of the Global Leadership Class, takes a systematic approach to answer these questions. At its heart lies a new database, the Global Leadership […]
New OPCW Leak Further Vindicates Skeptics Of Establishment Syria Narrative
New OPCW Leak Further Vindicates Skeptics Of Establishment Syria Narrative On the sixth of July last year, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released its interim report on its findings regarding an alleged poison gas attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. The incident, which resulted in dozens of civilian casualties, was blamed on […]
UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters
UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters France announced Sunday that a proposed European-led mission to patrol the Persian Gulf will be based out of a recently established French naval base in Abu Dhabi, and that the naval patrol will soon go “operational” amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. Paris has spearheaded efforts to […]
