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IEA Chief: U.S. Oil Output To Near Saudi+Russian Production By 2025
IEA Chief: U.S. Oil Output To Near Saudi+Russian Production By 2025 Total U.S. oil production around 2025 will almost equal the combined production of Russia and Saudi Arabia, Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency on Friday. The huge growth in U.S. shale production will completely […]
Trump Derangement International
Trump Derangement International Diego Velázquez The Spinners 1655-60 Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Ambassador to Berlin Richard Grenell. His reaction presents perhaps the most […]
Shale Oil Keeps Growing on Trees
Shale Oil Keeps Growing on Trees The United States Geological Society (USGS) today released a report stating there is an estimated 46.3 billion barrels of theoretical, technically recoverable, as yet undiscovered light tight oil reserves in the Wolfcamp, Bone Springs and Avalon shaley carbonate formations in the Delaware Basin of West Texas. Shale oil, it seems, keeps […]
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness We are now in the dubious position of “celebrating” – if that is the word – the 100th anniversary of US President Woodrow Wilson’s departure on December 4, 1918 on the liner SS George Washington for the Versailles Peace Conference where he was confident […]
Putin warns US against misadventures
Putin warns US against misadventures (Russia’s President Vladimir Putin addresses an extended meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board in the National Defence Management Centre in Moscow, Dec 18, 2018) The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board in Moscow on December 18 stands out as a tour […]
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed Throughout the long Cold War Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University was a voice of reason. He refused to allow his patriotism to blind him to Washington’s contribution to the confict and to criticize only the Soviet contribution. […]
The US will become a neo-feudal nation
The US will become a neo-feudal nation The Western world is heading for the next big social and economic crisis. America’s hegemony is waning and its establishment is fighting among themselves. To uphold American supremacy, President Trump and his administration are trying to reshape the nation into a neo-feudal society with a new relationship between […]
The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy
The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy The loss-averse President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform to “defeat ISIS, sought to uphold his election-season slogan by declaring “historic victories against ISIS” as a reason for his Wednesday decision to end US military presence in Syria. ✔ We […]
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy Since I last wrote about the bipartisan shrieking, hysterical reaction to Trump’s planned military withdrawal from Syria the other day, it hasn’t gotten better, it’s gotten worse. I’m having a hard time even picking out individual bits of the collective freakout from the political/media class to […]
America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy
America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What is really at the basis of the ongoing civilizational conflict between the US and China … are China’s ambitions to be a leader in next-generation technology, […]
Reactions To Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan Say More Than The Plan Itself
Reactions To Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan Say More Than The Plan Itself President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, which is reportedly expected to take 60-100 days or 30 days depending on who you ask. According to Kurdish forces in eastern Syria the withdrawal of American as well as French troops is […]
Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift?
Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift? The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap. The Greek historian’s metaphor reminds us of the attendant dangers when a rising power rivals a ruling power—as Athens challenged Sparta in ancient Greece, or as Germany […]
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It Even the neo-con warmongers’ house journal The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to pull US troops out of Syria, in producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce one single, uncertain, very short pen stroke to describe the minute […]
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW This isn’t exactly an article loaded with Christmas cheer, but there’s a very good reason that my family has strictly limited our holiday splurges this year. It’s because all the signs right now seem to indicate the US is hurtling toward […]
The Coming Crisis
The Coming Crisis In a crisis, people either turn to their institutions or they turn to their leaders to provide a path forward through the emergency. This is especially true when the path forward is waiting out the emergency. People respect action, so they have to have faith in their leaders if the right course […]
