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IRGC Commander Says Netanyahu Will “Flee Into Sea,” Should “Practice Swimming”
IRGC Commander Says Netanyahu Will “Flee Into Sea,” Should “Practice Swimming” In a fiery message aimed at Tel Aviv, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps deputy commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami issued a warning to Israel, Middle East-based source Al Masdar News reports. “I tell the prime minister of the Zionist regime to practice swimming in the Mediterranean because soon you will have no choice but [to] […]
Deadly Chinese Drones Now Lurk Above Mideast Battlefields
Deadly Chinese Drones Now Lurk Above Mideast Battlefields Across the Middle East, countries banned from purchasing armed drones from the US due to a weapons embargo are increasingly gravitating towards Chinese defense manufacturers, according to a new report from the Associated Press, sales that “are helping expand Chinese influence across a region vital to American […]
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse Photo Source NASA’s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0 “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” -Economist Herbert Stein Those who live in the reaches of the Arctic Circle tend to convey the same humbling lesson: Mother Nature calls the shots and survival depends upon preparing […]
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist It has been roughly two months since China threatened to impose a 25% tariff on US energy imports (it eventually went back on those threats), and less than two weeks since the latest round of tariffs has been implemented. But even as China […]
Moscow On US Idea To Block Russian Trade: Naval Blockade Would Mean WAR
Moscow On US Idea To Block Russian Trade: Naval Blockade Would Mean WAR In a new report, United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke suggested the US could use the Navy to block Russian energy from hitting Middle East markets. But the head of the Russian Senate’s Information Policy Committee, Aleksey Pushkov, said that […]
US Hints At Naval Blockade Of Russian Energy Exports Which Moscow Warns Would Be “An Act Of War”
US Hints At Naval Blockade Of Russian Energy Exports Which Moscow Warns Would Be “An Act Of War” In a interview about fracking and the implications of making the United States less dependent on foreign sources of energy, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the Washington Examiner that the US Navy has the ability to blockade Russia from controlling […]
Fragility of Middle East alliances becomes ever more apparent
Fragility of Middle East alliances becomes ever more apparent Three recent developments lay bare the fragility of Middle Eastern alliances and a rebalancing of their priorities: the Russian-Turkish compromise on an assault on the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib, the fate of troubled Abu Dhabi airline Ettihad, and battles over reconstruction of Syria. These developments […]
Europe Unveils “Special Purpose Vehicle” To Bypass SWIFT, Jeopardizing Dollar’s Reserve Status
Europe Unveils “Special Purpose Vehicle” To Bypass SWIFT, Jeopardizing Dollar’s Reserve Status In a stunning vote of “no confidence” in the US monopoly over global payment infrastructure, one month ago Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas called for the creation of a new payments system independent of the US that would allow Brussels to be independent […]
Battling it out at the UN: Potholes overshadow US-Iran confrontation
Battling it out at the UN: Potholes overshadow US-Iran confrontation A podcast version of this article is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-153425019/battling-it-out-at-the-un-potholes-overshadow-us-iran-confrontation It’s easy to dismiss Iranian denunciations of the United States and its Middle Eastern allies as part of the Islamic republic’s long-standing rhetoric. The rhetoric makes it equally easy to understand American distrust. But as […]
Trump: “The OPEC Monopoly Must Get Prices Down Now!”
Trump: “The OPEC Monopoly Must Get Prices Down Now!” Less than three months after Trump’s latest tweet slamming OPEC, in which he warned the petroleum cartel that “the United States defends many of their members for very little $’s. This must be a two way street. REDUCE PRICING NOW!”… … Trump was at it again […]
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neolibera and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence. The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the […]
Staged Filming of False Flag ‘Chemical Attacks’ Has Begun in Idlib: Russian MoD
Staged Filming of False Flag ‘Chemical Attacks’ Has Begun in Idlib: Russian MoD Russian state media channels, in a near simultaneous blitz of information, have issued breaking alerts this morning that anti-Assad insurgents in Idlib have begun filming “fake footage of chemical attacks” based on Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) statements. The Russian Center for […]
Fighting Starts in Syria’s Idlib: US Military Considers Military Options
Fighting Starts in Syria’s Idlib: US Military Considers Military Options Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari declared on Sept. 7 that his government was determined to wipe out the rebels from the Idlib province. The next day, the Idlib Dawn Operation began, encircling a town 59 km. southwest of the Syrian city of Aleppo. As of Sept. […]
New Alliance Emerges in Eastern Mediterranean to Reshape Regional Security Landscape
New Alliance Emerges in Eastern Mediterranean to Reshape Regional Security Landscape The military-political landscape in Europe and the Mediterranean is changing. NATO is not as unified as it once was, and Turkey’s membership has become more of a formality than a real thing. A pro-US group consisting of Great Britain, Poland, and the Baltic States […]
