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Taiwan Holds Live-Fire Military Exercise Amid Fears Of China Invasion
Taiwan Holds Live-Fire Military Exercise Amid Fears Of China Invasion Taiwan on Thursday conducted live-fire war drills along its west coast amid mounting fears that Chinese President Xi Jinping could use military force to annex the democratic island. Artillery batteries, self-propelled artillery weapons, attack helicopters, and main battle tanks fired at targets off the west coast city of Taichung, while […]
New York Times Becomes Really A Puppet of the Deep State?
New York Times Becomes Really A Puppet of the Deep State? This entire affair of desperately trying to paint Trump in league with Putin to defeat Hillary is beyond any comprehension. Not a single left-wing press from the New York Times to CNN will ever report the truth that the release of Hillary’s emails NEVER involved altered or forged […]
The Price of Empire
The Price of Empire Why America and Britain Are Self-Destructing (And What the World Can Learn From it) It’s a striking fact of today’s world that the two rich societies in shocking, swift, sharp decline are America and Britain. Nowhere else in the world, for example, are real income, life expectancy, happiness, and trust all plummeting, apart […]
Don’t Be So Sure Hyperinflation Can’t Hit the U.S.
Don’t Be So Sure Hyperinflation Can’t Hit the U.S. Some progressives back piling on even more debt to pay for social programs. That could be risky. Marking time. Photographer: Ramin Talaie/Getty Images North America Discussions of big government spending programs often revolve around the question of how to pay for them. For example, Representative Alexandria […]
The Death Penalty for Canada’s Foreign Policy?
The Death Penalty for Canada’s Foreign Policy? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined with the chorus of Western countries supporting Canada’s protestations against the “arbitrary,” and “politically motivated” death sentence imposed by a Chinese court on Canadian drug smuggler Robert Schellenberg. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland praised Pompeo’s “recognition of the principle that […]
Shut Down the War Machine!
Shut Down the War Machine! The time has come to cut the US military down to size. Last November, the Pentagon admitted what critics have known for years: It cannot pass an audit that would let Congress, the media and taxpayers know what it does with the trillions of dollars that have been lavished on […]
Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran
Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran The United States’ international windbag, Secretary of Defense (read: War) Mike Pompeo has been acting the imperial blowhard throughout the Middle East. With his boss busy denying that he’s a Russian agent, watching advisors and cabinet members come and go with dizzying alacrity, and dodging porn-star accusations, Pompeo is trotting […]
How California stayed with gold when the rest of the U.S. adopted fiat money
How California stayed with gold when the rest of the U.S. adopted fiat money We are ten years into the age of bitcoin. But people are still using national currencies like yen, dollars, and pounds to buy things. What does history have to say about switches from one type of monetary system to another? In […]
Trump’s Biggest Lie?
ERIC ZUESSE | 16.01.2019 | SECURITY / WAR AND CONFLICT| WORLD / MIDDLE EAST Trump’s Biggest Lie? INTRODUCTION (NOTE: Remarks from US President Donald Trump that will be considered as representing possibly his biggest lie will here be boldfaced, so that they will stand out from the context in which he stated them.) Trump escalated Bush’s […]
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting Let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was anything but atypical in having the Bomb (we capitalized it then) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk as sirens howled their nuclear attack warnings outside. […]
Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China?
Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China? Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Listen to the interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky below. This is Guns and Butter. “The Rand Corporation, on contract with the US Army, which commissioned a report examining a war with China. Now, this is called “War With China: […]
JFK, Trump, Russia, and the Deep State
JFK, TRUMP, RUSSIA, AND THE DEEP STATE Ever since I began writing on the JFK assassination, there have been those who have said to me, “What difference does it make whether this was a regime-change operation? Most everyone who engaged in it is dead by now anyway. What relevance does the assassination have for us […]
Uniting for a Green New Deal
Uniting for a Green New Deal Support is growing in the United States for a Green New Deal. Though there are competing visions for what that looks like, essentially, a Green New Deal includes a rapid transition to a clean energy economy, a jobs program and a stronger social safety net. We need a Green […]
The US Has Military Forces in Over 160 Countries, but the Pentagon Is Hiding the Exact Numbers
The US Has Military Forces in Over 160 Countries, but the Pentagon Is Hiding the Exact Numbers The US has 95% of the world’s foreign military bases, with personnel in more than 160 countries. But the Pentagon is leaving hundreds of outposts out of its official reports. Editor’s Note: Nick Turse reports in TomDispatch that […]
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go Will France, under Macron – Implosion 2 – become a candidate for exiting the EU thanks to the Yellow Vests? The “Gilets Jaunes” will not let go. Not even – or especially not – after Macron‘s half-hearted, rather cynical and grandstanding concessions – of “too little and […]
